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  William Stanek's The Living...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  Rocky Mountain is a park built vertically.
  
  Ancient rock rose. Ice carved valleys and basins. Water reached a divide and moved toward opposite sides of a continent. Forest gave way to tundra. Animals adapted to narrower and colder worlds as elevation increased.
  
  William Stanek's The Living Rocky Mountain Biography follows uplift, glaciation, headwaters, alpine ecology, wildlife, Indigenous corridors, settlement, tourism, road building, water engineering, park creation, management, climate, and the growing limits of high-country access.
  
  The Continental Divide is more than a line across a map.
  
  It is the organizing idea of a landscape where a few feet can change the destination of water-and a few thousand feet can change almost everything about life.

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  The Dopamine Trap - The Clinical...

  Gregory Bicaj

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  You are not weak. You are not lazy. You are not broken. Your brain is simply running the wrong program for the world it lives in.
  In The Dopamine Trap, Albanian-Swiss neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Gregory Bicaj draws on twenty years of laboratory research and direct clinical work to explain why modern life leaves so many people anxious, distracted, exhausted, and strangely empty—despite having more comfort, convenience, and entertainment than any previous generation.
  The answer lies in dopamine. Not the "pleasure chemical" of popular mythology, but the brain's engine of wanting, anticipation, and craving. Smartphones, social media feeds, news cycles, and streaming platforms are not neutral tools. They are environments engineered to keep the brain's reward system perpetually activated—producing a state of chronic overstimulation that quietly degrades focus, mood, patience, creativity, and the capacity for genuine satisfaction.
  Bicaj introduces his "Three Brains Principles"—a working model grounded in evolutionary neuroscience—to show that most suffering and most foolish decisions arise not from personal failure, but from the wrong brain system being in charge at the wrong moment. With this framework, the chaos of compulsive phone-checking, emotional reactivity, and chronic restlessness becomes not a character flaw but a legible biological problem with practical solutions.
  Moving from neuroscience to clinic to daily life, The Dopamine Trap offers a complete, step-by-step path back to a mind that can think deeply, rest fully, and feel real pleasure again. Readers will learn:
  
  - Why dopamine fuels wanting far more than liking—and how that gap traps modern people in habits they do not enjoy
  - How variable-ratio reinforcement makes smartphones function like slot machines, and why willpower alone cannot break the cycle
  - How to measure their true "stimulation load" using practical audits from cognitive psychology research
  - How to run a 48-hour diagnostic reset that reveals the difference between preference and dependence
  - How to rebuild the brain's default mode network—the system responsible for creativity, self-reflection, and meaning-making—through structured rest
  - How to reintroduce pleasure safely without reigniting compulsive patterns
  - How to redesign their environment so that the easiest path leads toward focus instead of distraction
  - Why boredom is not the enemy of a meaningful life but one of its most important preconditions
  - A complete 30-day discipline playbook built on implementation intentions, identity-based change, and habit science
  Through vivid case studies, landmark research from Bruce Alexander, Anna Lembke, Gloria Mark, Anders Ericsson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and others, and concrete clinical experience, Bicaj shows that recovery is not about eliminating pleasure or achieving monastic discipline. It is about recalibrating a reward system that has been pushed far beyond its design limits—so that ordinary life, real conversation, sustained thought, and quiet moments can feel like enough again.
  For readers of Jonathan Haidt and Gabor Maté, The Dopamine Trap is both a rigorous explanation and a compassionate, practical guide. The goal is not a perfect brain. It is a freer one.

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  Before the Streetlights Come On...

  Heather McTeer Toney

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  Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver, and a defining dynamic for the foreseeable future. Yet, in Black communities, climate change is seen as less urgent when compared to other pressing issues, including police brutality, gun violence, job security, food insecurity, and the blatant racism faced daily around the country. 
   
   
   
  However, with Black Americans disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change—making up 13 percent of the US population but breathing 40 percent dirtier air and being twice as likely to be hospitalized or die from climate-related health problems than white counterparts—climate change is a central issue of racial justice and affects every aspect of life for Black communities. 
   
   
   
  In Before the Streetlights Come On, climate activist Heather McTeer Toney insists that those most affected by climate change are best suited to lead the movement for climate justice. McTeer Toney brings her background in politics, community advocacy, and leadership in environmental justice to this revolutionary exploration of why and how Black Americans are uniquely qualified to lead national and global conversations around systems of racial disparity and solutions to the climate crisis.

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  Why You Can't Go - and what you...

  Lorraine Cooney

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  Get to know your gut – it might change your life!
  Chronic constipation can take over your life and leave you feeling bloated, sluggish and exhausted. It can be especially frustrating if you have tried to manage it with increased fibre, water and exercise but without success. Out of embarrassment, many suffer in silence.
  Written by leading gut-health expert Lorraine Cooney, this book breaks down taboos associated with digestive health, takes a deep dive into the workings of the gut and examines all the factors that could be contributing to constipation and excess bloating.
  From the magic of our microbiome to the best way to time meals, this fascinating handbook draws on cutting-edge science and Lorraine's years of clinical experience, offering a series of practical exercises that will empower you to identify the likely causes of your own digestive difficulties and to find tailored solutions for optimal and lasting gut health.

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  The Sadness Business

  Patrick Landman

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  Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder.
  The new standard way of thinking about mental health, dictated by the publication of an international guide, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is authorian and overshadows Therapeutic Listening in favor of the drug treatment—its latest version, the DSM-5, lists more than 350 diseases.
  Patrick Landman exposes the abuses of such a takeover—the range of normality is reduced and we all become consumers of psychotropic drugs, and even potential lunatics.

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  White

  Sylvain Tesson

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  When Sylvain Tesson left the colorful yellow houses of the French Riveria for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend Daniel du Lac, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly would await him. Over the course of four years, from 2018 to 2021, they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, entering into a white world entirely of snow, bitterly cold, and overlooked by an empty sky; only the effort of moving forward, one stride at a time, separated the days from one another. He thought he was venturing into beauty but he was immersing himself in a substance. In the white of the high Alps all is canceled out—hopes, fears, memories, and regrets. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was communion with a substance. Perhaps his longtime dream of transforming travel into prayer would come true at last.

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