NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"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 [this book], 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...

2) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

3) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 191 week(s).

4) The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Sides, Hampton

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...

5) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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Grann, David

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 53 week(s).

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"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...

6) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 57 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert

“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt,...

7) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-12. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 67 week(s).

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* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
Jennette McCurdy was six...