Books like Hyper by Timothy Denevi

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

A chilling memoir detailing Solomon Northup's harrowing experience as a captive on a Louisiana plantation for twelve years, from 1841 to 1853.

Explores how emerging mathematics and neuroscience can unravel the mysteries of consciousness, brain function, and the future of mind‑computer interfaces.

Dr. Gábor Máté explores how social and emotional environments shape Attention Deficit Disorder, blending scientific insight with personal experience as an ADD sufferer and parent of diagnosed children.

A memoir in which Ayelet Waldman chronicles a private experiment with LSD to treat a severe mood disorder, blending science, humor, and personal insight in her quest for a truly good day.

A memoir of a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who guides amputee and PTSD patients through Iraq and Afghanistan war injuries, blending humor with penetrating insight into veteran rehabilitation.

After a severe head injury at twenty-two, Su Meck loses all memory of herself and her life, rebuilding her identity from observation and routine as she struggles to live as a wife and mother while revisiting the losses of her new existence years later.

"For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions. This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model. It addresses questions like: - Why can those with ADHD focus very well on some tasks while having great difficulty in focusing on other tasks they recognize as important? - How does brain development and functioning of persons with ADHD differ from others?- How do impairments of ADHD change from childhood through adolescence and in adulthood?- What treatments help to improve ADHD impairments? How do they work? Are they safe?- Why do those with ADHD have additional emotional, cognitive, and learning disorders more often than most others?- What commonly-held assumptions about ADHD have now been proven wrong by scientific research?Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other medical and mental health professionals, as well as those affected by ADHD and their families, will find this to be am insightful and invaluable resource"--

Updating and expanding Russell Barkley's Handbook, this new second edition incorporates the latest findings on the nature, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As in the previous edition, Dr. Barkley includes contributions from other leading scientist-practitioners, who report on their respective areas of expertise. Readers will find current, practical information on nearly every aspect of the disorder. In-depth assessment and treatment guidelines are supported by updated documentation on outcomes, and three new chapters focus specifically on adults. - Jacket.

A comprehensive examination of adult attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and its effects on daily life, including educational outcomes, work, relationships, health behaviors, and mental health, with a focus on executive function deficits and the development of improved diagnostic criteria.

Author Klaus Schwab explores how the fourth industrial revolution—a convergence of AI, biotechnology, nanotechnology and digital networks—will reshape society, economy and identity, urging a future where technology serves humanity within ethical bounds.

A gripping account of America's covert operatives and their clandestine missions.

Diane Cameron blends memoir, history and true crime to uncover the story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins, a Vietnam-era Marine who served in China during the 1937-39 Japanese invasion and later convicted of murder, exploring trauma, mental illness and family dynamics.