TY - Book, eAudiobook, eBook AU - Haidt, Jonathan AU - Haidt, Jonathan|Author AU - Haidt, Jonathan|Narrator AU - Pratt, Sean|Narrator TI - The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness PB - Penguin Publishing Group, Books on Tape, Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC PY - 2024 CY - New York ET - Unabridged N1 - Introduction: Growing up on Mars , Part 1: A tidal wave , The surge of suffering , Part 2: The backstory: the decline of the play based childhood , What children need to do in childhood , Discover mode and the need for risky play , Puberty and the blocked transition to adulthood , Part 3: The great rewiring: the rise of the phone based childhood , The four foundational harms: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction , Why social media harms girls more than boys , Part 4: Collective action for healthier childhood , Preparing for collective action , What governments and tech companies can do now , What schools can do now , What parents can do now , Conclusion: Bring childhood back to Earth. N2 - "After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the play-based childhood began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the phone-based childhood in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this great rewiring of childhood has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the collective action problems that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes -- communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children -- and ourselves -- from the psychological damage of a phone-based life." -- ST - The anxious generation SN - 9780593655030 ER - TY - eBook, Book, eAudiobook, Book - Large Print AU - Larson, Erik AU - Larson, Erik|Author AU - Larson, Erik|Narrator AU - Patton, Will|Narrator TI - The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War PB - Crown, Random House Large Print, Books on Tape PY - 2024 CY - New York ET - First edition. N1 - A boat in the dark , The best of all worlds , Treachery in the wind , Precipice , Journey , Coercion , Collision , Fire! , Epilogue : a toast , Coda : blood among the tulip trees. N2 - On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter-a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable-one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink-a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late. ST - The demon of unrest SN - 9780385348744 ER - TY - eBook, Book, Book - Large Print AU - Stephanopoulos, George AU - Dickey, Lisa|author AU - Stephanopoulos, George|Author AU - Dickey, Lisa|Author TI - The situation room: the inside story of presidents in crisis PB - Grand Central, Grand Central Publishing PY - 2024 CY - New York ET - First edition. N1 - Prologue: Center of the storm , At the creation , All through the night , "All hell has broken loose" , S.O.S. , Close encounters , The helm is right here , The right side of history , Please hold for the president , "This is where we fight from" , The pacer , Postcards from the edge , Tiger team , Epilogue: WHSR. N2 - "George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicenter of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, the decisions made within the Sit Room complex affect the lives of every person on this planet. Detailing close calls made and disasters narrowly averted, THE SITUATION ROOM will take readers through dramatic turning points in a dozen presidential administrations, including: --Incredible minute-by-minute transcripts from the Sit Room after both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan were shot --The shocking moment when Henry Kissinger raised the military alert level to DEFCON III while President Nixon was drunk in the White House residence --The extraordinary scene when President Carter asked for help from secret government psychics to rescue American hostages in Iran --A vivid retelling of the harrowing hours during the 9/11 attack --New details from Obama administration officials leading up to the raid on Osama Bin Laden --And a first-ever account of January 6th from the staff inside the Sit Room. THE SITUATION ROOM is the definitive, past-the-security-clearance look at the room where it happened, and the people--the famous and those you've never heard of--who have made history within its walls"-- ST - The situation room SN - 9781538740767 ER - TY - eBook, Book, Book - Large Print, Audiobook on CD AU - Goodwin, Doris Kearns AU - Goodwin, Doris Kearns|Author AU - Cranston, Bryan,1956-|narrator AU - Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm)|publisher TI - An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s PB - Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster, Thorndike Pr PY - 2024 CY - New York ET - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. N1 - Coming of age , "A sort of dead end" , Aboard the "Caroline" , A Pandora's box of cigars , The supreme generalist , Kaleidoscope , Thirteen LBJs , "And we shall overcome" , The never-ending resignation , Friendship, loyalty, and duty , Crosswinds of fate , Endings and beginnings , Our talisman. N2 - The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years. ST - An unfinished love story SN - 9781982108663 ER - TY - Book Club Kit, Audiobook on CD, eBook, Book, eAudiobook, Book - Large Print AU - Grann, David AU - Graham, Dion|Narrator AU - Grann, David|Narrator AU - Graham, Dion|narrator AU - Grann, David|Author TI - The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder PB - Random House Large Print, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Books on Tape, Penguin Random House Audio, Doubleday PY - 2023 CY - New York ET - First edition. N1 - The First Lieutenant , A gentleman volunteer , The gunner , Dead reckoning , The storm within the storm , Alone , The gulf of pain , Wreckage , The beast , Our new town , Nomads of the sea , The lord of mount misery , Extemities , Affections of the people , The ark , My mutineers , Byron's choice , Port of God's mercy , The haunting , The day of our deliverance , A literary rebellion , The prize , Grub Street hacks , The docket , The court-martial , The version that won , Epilogue. N2 - "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death-for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. Most powerfully, he unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing that it was not only the Wager's captain and crew who were on trial - it was the very idea of empire"-- ST - The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder SN - 9780385534260 ER - TY - Book, eAudiobook, eBook AU - Attia, Peter AU - Gifford, Bill|Author AU - Attia, Peter|Author AU - Attia, Peter|Narrator AU - Gifford, Bill(Journalist)|author TI - Outlive: the science & art of longevity PB - Harmony/Rodale, Harmony, Books on Tape PY - 2023 CY - New York ET - First edition. N1 - The long game: from fast death to slow death , Medicine 3.0: rethinking medicine for the age of chronic disease , Objective, strategy, tactics: a road map for reading this book , Centenarians: the older you get, the healthier you have been , Eat less, live longer: the science of hunger and health , The crisis of abundance: can our ancient genes cope with our modern diet? , The ticker: confronting and preventing heart disease, the deadliest killer on the planet , The runaway cell: new ways to address the killer that is cancer , Chasing memory: understanding Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases , Thinking tactically: building a framework of principles that work for you , Exercise: the most powerful longevity drug , Training 101: how to prepare for the centenarian decathlon , The gospel of stability: relearning how to move to prevent injury , Nutrition 3.0: you say potato, I say "nutritional biochemistry" , Putting nutritional biochemistry into practice: how to find the right eating pattern for you , The awakening: how to learn to love sleep, the best medicine for your brain , Work in progress: the high price of ignoring emotional health. N2 - "Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late to help, prolonging lifespan at the expense of healthspan, or quality of life. Dr. Attia believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalized, proactive strategy for longevity, one where we take action now, rather than waiting. This is not 'biohacking,' it's science: a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health. Dr. Attia's aim is less to tell you what to do and more to help you learn how to think about long-term health, in order to create the best plan for you as an individual. In Outlive, readers will discover: Why the cholesterol test at your annual physical doesn't tell you enough about your actual risk of dying from a heart attack; that you may already suffer from an extremely common yet underdiagnosed liver condition that could be a precursor to the chronic diseases of aging; why exercise is the most potent pro-longevity 'drug'--and how to begin training for the 'Centenarian Decathlon"; why you should forget about diets, and focus instead on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating pattern; why striving for physical health and longevity, but ignoring emotional health, could be the ultimate curse of all. Aging and longevity are far more malleable than we think; our fate is not set in stone. With the right roadmap, you can plot a different path for your life, one that lets you outlive your genes to make each decade better than the one before"--Publisher marketing. ST - Outlive SN - 9780593236598 ER - TY - eBook, Book, Book - Large Print AU - Selleck, Tom AU - Selleck, Tom|Author AU - Henican, Ellis|Author AU - Henican, Ellis|author TI - You never know: a memoir PB - DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow, Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, HarperCollins PY - 2024 CY - New York, NY ET - First edition. N1 - Mullholland Drive , Just Don't Let 'Em Change You , In the program , In uniform , Miss West , Selling ecstatically , Laying bricks , Nothing's certain till it's certain , the Sacketts , Don't know where I'm goin' but there's no use bein' late , Making Magnum , It's complicated , A beginning , Finding the groover , In the groove , You never know , Unfinished business , Always expect the unexpected , Rebuilding our house , The elephant in the room , Do the right thing , Of milestone and memory. N2 - In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, Tom Selleck brings listeners on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Hollywood (from the Dating Game to the Fox New Talent Program to co-starring with Mae West and escorting her to black-tie social functions). Selleck recounts his personal friendships with a vivid army of A-listers, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott, paying special tribute to his mentor James Garner of The Rockford Files, who believed, like Selleck, that TV protagonists are far more interesting when they have rough edges. He also more than tips his hat to the American western and the scruffy band of actors, directors and other ruffians who helped define that classic genre, where Selleck has repeatedly found a happy home. Magnum fans will be fascinated to learn how Selleck put his career on the line to make Thomas Magnum a more imperfect hero and explains why he walked away from a show that could easily have gone on for years longer. Selleck explains how he's struggled to balance his personal and professional lives, frequently adjusting his career to protect his family's privacy and normalcy. His journey offers a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Beneath all the charm and talent and self-deprecating humor, Selleck's memoir reveals an American icon who has reached remarkable heights by always insisting on being himself. ST - You never know SN - 9780062945761 ER -