This book offers you the chance to find out what you're really like, and to fully realize your mental potential. Test yourself and discover what your mental strengths are: maybe you prefer numbers to words or can visualize shapes better than you can spell. The tests will help you discover what type of thinker you are, and encourage you to learn new cognitive skills.

In her early thirties, [the author] had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want - husband, country home, successful career - but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This ... is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place. Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance,...

Acclaimed Harvard sociologist makes the case for reexamining what we value to prioritize recognition, the quest for respect, in an age that has been defined by economics growing inequality and the obsolescence of the American dream.