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Street Smart Safety for Women: Your Guide to Defensive Living

Joy Farrow - Health Communications Inc
Format: Paperback

In a book written by women for women, Street Smart Safety for Women offers tips on defensive living that will increase readers' reliance on the one thing that can protect them most: their safety intuition. . Violence against women is a global health issue. The threats women face today...
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Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World

Scott Shigeoka - Balance
Format: Hardcover

"Most people recognize the value of curiosity, but few know how to unleash it. Seek will help you close the gap between awareness and action. Scott Shigeoka's thirst for understanding and connection is contagious, and his book is a timely bridge for our divided world." -- Adam...
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The Korean Herbal Apothecary: Ancient Wisdom for Wellness and Balance in the Modern World

Grace Yoon - Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback

Korean women are expected to reach a record average lifespan of over 90 years by 2030. In this first-of-its kind guide, discover their culture's ancient healing methods and remedies.. How has the Korean culture, now being looked at as a new Blue Zone, created such incredible wellness...
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

Anna Motz - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimes. Women can be murderers and child abusers. They can commit acts...
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe - the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind - and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth...
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Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being

Sue Varma M.D. - Avery
Format: Hardcover

A practical program rooted in optimism to help you live fully and joyfully in an imperfect, turbulent world. As the first medical director and attending psychiatrist at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program, Dr. Sue Varma worked directly with civilian and first-responder survivors...
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Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times

Brigid Delaney - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Guardian columnist spends a year exploring how to pursue a rich and meaningful life, turning to the wisdom of the Stoics for insights into the deepest questions of existence.Like many people...
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The Lost Art of Silence: Reconnecting to the Power and Beauty of Quiet

Sarah Anderson - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

A unique celebration of silence - in art, literature, nature, and spirituality - and an exploration of its ability to bring inner peace, widen our perspectives, and inspire the human spirit in spite of the noise of contemporary life.. Silence is habitually overlooked - after all, throughout...
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Robert Jay Lifton - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of "survivor power" to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic - and collectively heal. "Lifton shows us why we must confront reality...
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Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

Dr. Dan Ariely - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The Path to Misbelief has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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