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Designed for Success

Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records

by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder

ISBN: 9780262048835

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 14, 2024

A charmingly illustrated history of midcentury instructional records and their untold contribution to the American narrative of self-improvement, aspiration, and success.

The Biology of Kindness

Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity

by Immaculata De Vivo and Daniel Lumera

Translated by Fabio De Vivo

ISBN: 9780262547659

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 19, 2024

How kindness—and other prosocial behaviors toward others—can help us live longer and healthier lives.

Death and Dying

by Nicole Piemonte and Shawn Abreu

ISBN: 9780262542425

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 7, 2021

An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge death's existential and emotional realities.

The Storm of Creativity

by Kyna Leski

Foreword by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262539494

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 2020

The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.

Concentration

Staying Focused in Times of Distraction

by Stefan Van der Stigchel

Translated by Danny Guinan

ISBN: 9780262538565

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 5, 2020

How to concentrate in a world of beeping smartphones, channel surfing, live-tweeting, pop-up ads, and other distractions.

A Life Coaching

by Keren Cytter

ISBN: 9783956792687

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

An incomplete guide for life. Each person written about is represented by a letter, and when an object turns into a subject it is marked in bold. The form of life coaching described in this book won't...