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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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Dating After 50 For Dummies

Pepper Schwartz · John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback

Meet, date, and start a relationship with Mr. or Ms. Right-after 50 Almost everyone associates falling in love with their younger years, but as the boomer generation ages, more and more people over 50 are jumping back into the dating scene for the first time (in a long time) and need...
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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You or Your Team

Simon Sinek · Portfolio
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

This paperback original workbook is the next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the mega-bestseller START WITH WHY, which has sold nearly a million copies worldwide.With START WITH WHY, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel...
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Meeting Your Match: Navigating the Minefield of Online Dating

Daisy Buchanan · Carlton Books
Format: Print book

Trying to find love online? This dating guide for the digital age mixes humor, frank advice, and practical information, plus a healthy touch of irreverence. Aimed at 20- to 30-something females, Meeting Your Match details the different "personalities" of the various sites and explains...
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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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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World

MITCH PRINSTEIN · Viking
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover

A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage...
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Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living A Better Life

Gabrielle Bernstein · North Star Way
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step process to release the beliefs that hold you back from living a better life.This six-step practice offers many promises. Petty resentments will disappear, compassion will replace attack,...
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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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Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

Amy Alkon · St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition
Format: Print book

"Miss Manners with Fangs." --LA Weekly We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals...
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Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

Scott Hamilton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Go for the win! Achieve excellence and be better than you've ever been!In his years as a professional ice-skater, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton learned to embrace the mind-set of working hard to "beat" the competition. But it seems competition has gotten a bad rap these...
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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 your fat, but your...
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How to Win at Shopping: 297 Insider Secrets for Getting the Style You Want at the Price You Want to Pay

David Zyla · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

A book worth its weight in gold - or what one charges on a gold card. Written by two fashion experts with deep experience in fashion shopping and styling, How to Win at Shopping is perfect for the woman who loves to shop - there is priceless information on every page. And perfect for the woman...
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De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less

Douglas Noll · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Discover how to successfully and efficiently calm an angry person or diffuse a volatile situation in ninety seconds or less with this proven and accessible peacekeeping method by self-described "lawyer turned peacemaker" Douglas E. Noll.We live in an increasingly divided world...
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