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Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. In Clean, doctor and journalist James Hamblin explores how we got here, and talks to everyone, from dermatologists to straight-up scam artists, trying to figure out what it really means to be clean. Lucid, accessible, and deeply researched, Clean explores the ongoing, radical change in the way we think about our skin.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing.  Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Filled with strategies for reframing your past and designing your future, Personality Isn’t Permanent is a guide to breaking free from the past and becoming the person you want to be.

Often called “Accident Park,” “Class Action Park,” or “Traction Park,” Action Park was an American icon. The amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun.  Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park’s founder. Andy’s story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son’s struggle to understand his father’s quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey.

This book will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life. Vishen Lakhian takes you on a journey to awaken the Buddha and the Badass inside you, a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether.