Book giveaway for How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence by Matt Richtel Apr 14-May 12, 2025

Book Giveaway For How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence

How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence

Release date: Jul 08, 2025

Building off his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning聽science聽reporter delive Building off his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning聽science聽reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound鈥攁nd often confounding鈥攖ransformation.

The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge.聽The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself. Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help.

For decades, this transition to adulthood has been defined by hormonal shifts that trigger the onset of puberty. But Richtel takes us where science now understands so much of the action the brain. A growing body of research that looks for the first time into budding adult neurobiology explains with untold clarity the emergence of the 鈥渟ocial brain,鈥� a craving for peer connection, and how the behaviors that follow pave the way for economic and social survival. This period necessarily involves testing鈥攁s the adolescent brain is programmed from birth to take risks and explore themselves and their environment鈥攕o that they may be able to thrive as they leave the insulated care of childhood.

Richtel, diving deeply into new research and gripping personal stories, offers accessible, scientifically grounded answers to the most pressing questions about generational change. What explains adolescent behaviors, risk-taking, reward-seeking, and the ongoing mental health crisis? How does adolescence shape the future of the species? What is the nature of adolescence itself? ...more

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Giveaway dates: Apr 14 - May 12, 2025

Countries available: U.S.

About Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel is a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times based in San Francisco.
He co-created and formerly wrote the syndicated comic Rudy Park under the pen name Theron Heir. Since 2012, the strip is now written by its longtime illustrator Darrin Bell. ...more

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