NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...

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

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 10 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 The Anxious Generation, 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...

3) The end of everything: how wars descend into annihilation

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Hanson, Victor Davis

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling...

4) The situation room: the inside story of presidents in crisis

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Stephanopoulos, George

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...

5) 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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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 196 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.

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

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.

7) In my time of dying: how I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife

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Junger, Sebastian

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by...

8) A walk in the park: the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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Fedarko, Kevin

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek. The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Now, in A Walk in the Park, author Kevin Fedarko...

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

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Grann, David

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 58 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...

10) You never know: a memoir

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Selleck, Tom

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, Tom Selleck brings listeners on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless...

11) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-06-16. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...