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"Oxford University professor and award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget reveals the ways that the scrappiest organizations problem solve and how everyone can use the same tools at work and in life. We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. Even if we had all the time and money in the world, sometimes no good solution can be found. So, what should we do, especially when we can't wait? The answer:...
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"From the founder of the Warrior Poet Society, a daring manual on how to become a dangerous-and good-man There is a war on masculinity, and everywhere we look-on every front we hold sacred-we can see the painful reminders of this collapsing order. The chaos and crisis we are experiencing today should be a signal for men everywhere to rise up; to fight to preserve our way of life by once again walking the ancient paths. But this isn't a journey that...
3) Hyper Focus
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Pub. Date
2022
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Hyper Focus: Discover Proven Tips on How to Overcome Distractions and Master Your Focus
Have you ever imagined why your workdays spiral out of control? Do you find yourself
procrastinating or find it difficult to concentrate on your tasks? Do you long to feel accomplished at the end of the day knowing that you are on top of all your activities while executing them effectively? It is not impossible to be more productive and effective in executing...
Have you ever imagined why your workdays spiral out of control? Do you find yourself
procrastinating or find it difficult to concentrate on your tasks? Do you long to feel accomplished at the end of the day knowing that you are on top of all your activities while executing them effectively? It is not impossible to be more productive and effective in executing...
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Pub. Date
2023
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met or dismissed-and you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, and abandonment. As an adult, you have fought hard to establish your own sense of self, and heal the wounds caused by your upbringing. But what about other emotionally immature people (EIP) in your life? As an adult...
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Pub. Date
2023
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An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.
He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers-from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist...
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Pub. Date
2023
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A heartfelt, hands-on guide to setting boundaries, increasing productivity, and finding fulfillment for teachers who know that their classrooms won’t thrive unless they do.
Over time, teachers internalize myths about their success that cause them to fall out of love with teaching.
“I’ll never be one of the 'perfect' teachers’”
“My self-worth is defined by my students’ test scores”
“The...
Over time, teachers internalize myths about their success that cause them to fall out of love with teaching.
“I’ll never be one of the 'perfect' teachers’”
“My self-worth is defined by my students’ test scores”
“The...
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Pub. Date
2014
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Play is deeply embedded in our natures. It contributes to optimism and hope for the future. It enables us with the ability to persevere. Brown concludes, "Play is a fundamental survival drive of humanity without which long term survival of our species may be at stake." He describes research showing that most sociopaths suffer from play deprivation in their childhood.
8) Shift into Freedom, the Unabridged Audio Book: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
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2017
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Teachings and Meditations to “Shift” into the Freedom of Awakening
It is possible to access the same sense of well-being, clarity, inner freedom, and loving connection realized by the world’s meditation masters. We can do this by shifting our awareness in the midst of our daily lives. Shift into Freedom is an unabridged audiobook presentation of innovative teacher Loch Kelly’s training manual for actively
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2022
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The Art of Extraordinary Confidence: Discover the 10 Steps That Can Help You Boost Your Self-Confidence and Become an Extraordinary You!
Maintaining a positive mindset can be quite difficult these days. It almost feels like disasters are happening left and right and feeling happy can be a challenge. A single moment can ruin whole lives and can leave scars that won't go away. In order to have the courage to overcome these problems, you need to...
Maintaining a positive mindset can be quite difficult these days. It almost feels like disasters are happening left and right and feeling happy can be a challenge. A single moment can ruin whole lives and can leave scars that won't go away. In order to have the courage to overcome these problems, you need to...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Untangle your emotions and expectations about money so that you can live your best financial life. Without fear and shame holding you back, it's more possible to move past all those social barriers to actualizing whatever your money aspirations are, whether that's getting a raise, getting out of debt, having honest conversations about money with your family, raising your kids to be savers, or wherever your values lead you. Dr. Faith, author of
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1987
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The courage to live and embrace love may make the difference between living and dying. In this exhilarating dialogue, surgeon Siegel displays a remarkable reliance on the natural capacity of people to manifest self-healing. He speaks of music in the operating room, inner guides and love as the principal force for healing.
12) You can drop it!: how I dropped 100 pounds enjoying carbs, cocktails & chocolate--and you can, too!
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My name is Ilana Muhlstein and I wrote You Can Drop It! to help you learn my personal and proven system to drop weight and keep it off - without sacrifice - and it's so simple that you'll love it! This unique approach has become famous thanks to my renowned 2B Mindset program. The 2B Mindset is designed with the built-in ability for customization so that it is optimally effective and can work for everyone. It has already helped thousands of people...
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2015
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"Harvey offers surprising insights into the male mentality and gives women strategies for taming that unruly beast."
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Women should listen to Steve Harvey when it comes to what a good man is about. Steve Harvey dispenses a lot of fabulous information about men."
—Aretha Franklin
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think
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2024
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A USA TODAY Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer's guide features encouraging essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado.
In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with...
A Washington Post Bestseller
Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer's guide features encouraging essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado.
In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with...
15) True Love
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Pub. Date
2023
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Of the billions of humans now alive and kicking, let two of them fall in love, marry, and yet it can't stick. They chose each other, and even still...
Just two can't make 'love' work – not two lovers, two races, two nations, two siblings, two people.
We crave to know true love. That's the deep well of thirst in every eye, every soul. It's not in our control, however. Our own spirits are not the source, the spring - that's why our...
Just two can't make 'love' work – not two lovers, two races, two nations, two siblings, two people.
We crave to know true love. That's the deep well of thirst in every eye, every soul. It's not in our control, however. Our own spirits are not the source, the spring - that's why our...
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Pub. Date
2023
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From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building new ones that do.
“Powerful . . . You will leave these pages changed for the better.”—Gabrielle Union, New York Times bestselling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine
There are...
“Powerful . . . You will leave these pages changed for the better.”—Gabrielle Union, New York Times bestselling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine
There are...
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Pub. Date
1999
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As more and more Westerners become acquainted with Eastern thought, they mistakenly feel that it is only through a negation of the self that one can achieve enlightenment. Mark Epstein, a Buddhist psychiatrist says, "It's wrong to think that Buddhist insight wipes out the ego-self; it wipes out the identification of whatever is happening in the mind/body process; but that ability being present is actually an ego function."
19) Glow in the f*cking dark: simple practices to heal your soul, from someone who learned the hard way
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"For the past decade, Tara Schuster worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her neglected, "mess-wreck disaster" of a childhood. She brought radical self-care, healing rituals, and self-love into her life, and on most days, she was a grateful, happy, and stable adult. She even wrote a book about it! But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire adult identity. Cue an out-of-body-panic-attack-doom-spiral...
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"Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath...
