{"title":"For the Advanced Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are not casual reads. This collection is curated for those who seek books that challenge assumptions, demand introspection, and leave you fundamentally changed. 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He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this \"great rewiring of childhood\" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the \"collective action problems\" that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. 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At the heart of Frankl's theory of logotherapy (from the Greek word for \"meaning\") is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but rather the discovery and pursuit of what the individual finds meaningful. Today, as new generations face new challenges and an ever more complex and uncertain world, Frankl's classic work continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living, in spite of all obstacles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA must-read companion to this classic work, a new, never-before-published work by Frankl entitled \u003ci\u003eYes to Life: In Spite of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available in English.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViktor E. Frankl\u003c\/b\u003e was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. His twenty-nine books have been translated into twenty-one languages. 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