AP Psych Book List: New books!
New books
The Self-Esteem Habit for Teens by Call Number: 155.6 SCHISBN: 9781626259195Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Covid-19 and the Mental Health Connection by Call Number: 248 HOLISBN: 9781663224729Publication Date: 2021-07-15
The Sweet Spot by
"This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists--a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty--and worse than that, boring.
Call Number: 302 BLOISBN: 9780062910561Publication Date: 2021-11-02
Logged in and Stressed Out by Call Number: 302.23 DURISBN: 9781538126677Publication Date: 2020-12-21
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Call Number: 302.231 PAUISBN: 9780593136775Publication Date: 2021-10-26
New Books
Getting Things Done for Teens by Call Number: 646.7 ALLISBN: 9780143131939Publication Date: 2018-07-10
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Call Number: 650.1 NEWISBN: 9781455509126Publication Date: 2012-09-18
Depression and Other Magic Tricks by Call Number: 811 BENISBN: 9781943735204Publication Date: 2017-08-22
New Books
The Road to Character by Call Number: 170 BroISBN: 9780812993257Publication Date: 2015-04-14
