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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone · The Experiment Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering... |
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Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · Oxford University Press Pages: 256 Format: eBook
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Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Snap Strategies for Couples: 40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls
Lana Staheli · Seal Press Format: Kindle Edition
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Snap Strategies for Couples: 40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls is full of quick solutions to every relationship's most common problems. Dr. Lana Staheli and Dr. Pepper Schwartz offer 40 practical, immediate fixes (or "snaps") that partners can use to end the fighting,... |
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The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
Anthony Biglan · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way its changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase peoples well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know... |
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The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey
Nancy L. Kriseman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 230
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Caregiving can be enormously challenging, terrifically rewarding, and potentially draining. Caregivers often wonder how they will navigate the tumultuous waters of caregiving and not lose themselves completely. The Mindful Caregiver highlights two major approaches to help transform the journey:... |
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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dolly Chugh · HarperBusiness Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at GoogleAn inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues... |
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
DANIEL J SIEGEL · Bantam Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for positive thinking.When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often... |
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Souvenir
Rolf Potts · Bloomsbury Academic Pages: 144 Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural... |
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Sharon Begley · Simon & Schuster Pages: 296 Format: Print book
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior - using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion.Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite · Plume Pages: 260 Format: Hardcover
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**An International Bestseller**"Like Big Little Lies, A Beautiful Terrible Thing is a startling reminder that fairy tales aren't real. A master class in suspenseful storytelling, Jen Waite recounts the lies, betrayals, and infidelity she endured with unrestrained honesty and deft candor.... |
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Love: A Very Short Introduction
Ronald de Sousa · Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Explores the philosophical notion of love, and argues that love is more complex than conventional thought would have us believe. |
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Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World: How to Create a Happy Life
Ilse Sand · Jessica Kingsley Publishers Pages: 160 Format: Paperback
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In today's fast-paced, increasingly public society, we are expected to be resilient, to have the energy to manage a packed work schedule, social calendar, and a large network of friends, both online and offline, day and night. If you find yourself struggling to live up to, or even enjoy,... |
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