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Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child

Stuart Shanker · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The first parenting book to bring the science and psychology of children's behavior together to build brain/body awareness for self-regulation and success

Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child's emotions and behavior...
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If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

Gregg Olsen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 335
Format: eBook

In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father.Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before...
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Way More than Luck: Commencement Speeches on Living with Bravery, Empathy, and Other Existential Skills

Unnamed: Various Authors · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life,...
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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Bodys Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You

Sylvia Tara · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think.

Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing -- and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body.

You may not love...

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5-Minute Hairstyles: 50 Super Quick 'Dos to Wear and Go

Jenny Strebe · Harperdesign
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Fabulous hair in five minutes!A comprehensive, full-color collection of easy, stylish ponytails, braids, and buns to quickly set you up for day and night, work and play.Whether you're heading to work, a party, or a date, hairstylist Jenny Strebe has the perfect do for you - and all it takes...
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People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity

Alan C Fox · Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Getting along well with others is the real secret to success and happiness. In tens of thousands of classrooms we teach reading, writing, and arithmetic and yet we leave solutions to the universal problems of human relationships to be discovered, if at all, by trial...
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Exponential Living: Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are

Sheri Riley · New American Library
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

Peace is possible. Peace is our power. Peace is the New Success®.

Constantly striving to achieve one goal after another and investing more in our careers than in our actual lives have left many of us feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and disconnected from who we are - anything...
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Grin and Bear It: How to Be Happy No Matter What Reality Throws Your Way

Jenni Pulos · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

Jenni Pulos, from Bravo's Flipping Out and Interior Therapy, pens a charming memoir-advice book on how to survive (and thrive) in any situationJenni Pulos has specialized in a lifetime of disappointments. She's been publicly humiliated, dumped by her spouse on national television,...
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The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle

Joanne Huist Smith · Harmony
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne...
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

BASED ON THE INCREDIBLE GRADUATION SPEECH WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.


On May 21, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin...
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Beyond Mars and Venus: The Power of Evolutionary Relationships

John Gray · Benbella Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

For more than twenty years, John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. By learning to speak each other's...
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10 Steps to Mastering Stress: A Lifestyle Approach, Updated Edition

David H. Barlow · Oxford University Press
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback

We know that stress is bad for us. We see evidence of this in the news, we hear it from our doctors, and we feel it at the end of a hectic week. Health professionals have learned that stress interferes with our lives-it increases missed work days, can lead to relationship difficulties,...
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When Reality Bites: How Denial Helps and What to Do When It Hurts

Holly Parker · Hazelden
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Denial is often seen as an inability or unwillingness to face unpleasant or difficult realities--from financial losses, to illnesses like alcoholism, to larger social issues like climate change. In some instances, denial can be detrimental because it can keep you stuck in a cycle of destructive...
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Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment

Gary D Chapman · Northfield Publishing; New Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they're in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast,...
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The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People

Judith Orloff · Sounds True
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

What is the difference between having empathy and being an empath? "Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff "But for empaths it goes much farther We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms...

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