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        The Hypocrisy Trap

        The Hypocrisy Trap

        The Hypocrisy Trap

        How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives

        by Michael Hallsworth

        ISBN: 9780262050944

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 14, 2025

        How our desire to stamp out hypocrisy is backfiring—and how learning to target our criticisms better can improve our politics, business, and personal relationships.
        Critical Thinking for Medical and Graduate Students

        Critical Thinking for Medical and Graduate Students

        Critical Thinking for Medical and Graduate Students

        by Jonathan M. Berman, Troy Camarata and Tony A. Slieman

        ISBN: 9780262553209

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 9, 2025

        The definitive handbook on critical thinking for medical and graduate students in biomedical sciences.
        Designed for Success

        Designed for Success

        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

        The Biology of Kindness

        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

        Death and Dying

        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

        The Storm of Creativity

        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

        Concentration

        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–Z Life Coaching

        A–Z Life Coaching

        A–Z Life Coaching

        by Keren Cytter

        ISBN: 9783956792687

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        Chase, Chance, and Creativity

        Chase, Chance, and Creativity

        Chase, Chance, and Creativity

        The Lucky Art of Novelty

        by James H. Austin

        ISBN: 9780262511353

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2003

        A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research.
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