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Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy

Mo Gawdat · North Star Way
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google's [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google's futuristic "dream factory." Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding...
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The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health

Rip Esselstyn · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The runaway New York Times bestselling diet that sparked a health revolution is simpler and easier to follow than ever The Engine 2 Diet has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and inspired a plant-based food revolution. Featuring endorsements from top medical experts and a food line in Whole...
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Unplug: A Simple Guide to Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers

Suze Yalof Schwartz · Harmony
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

A modernized approach to meditation will appeal to anyone, even if - especially if - you believe you have no time, you can't sit still, or that "it's just not you."Whether you're a Fortune 500 CEO or someone bogged down with a never-ending to-do list, the proven secret to being...
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The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens: Updated for the Digital Age

SEAN COVEY · Touchstone
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives - now updated for today's social media age.In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach...
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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

Peg Dawson EdD · The Guilford Press
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive...
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Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living: Learn How to Make It Work for You

Steven Jay Fogel · Greenleaf Book Group
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback

How Can You Use Your Mind to Transform Your Brain to Make Yourself Happier? Your default programming--the automatic choices all of us make in life without even noticing--can sabotage you, but you can learn to interrupt your self-defeating behavior and make better choices. Steven J. Fogel...
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Reinventing You, With a New Preface: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future

Dorie Clark · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Are you where you want to be professionally? Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, Reinventing You, now in paperback with a new preface, provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop...
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WHOLE: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity

Melissa Moore · Rodale
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

When Melissa Moore was 13 years old, her father said to her, "I know how to kill someone and get away with it." At the time she chalked it up to his love of detective novels, but it didn't change the fact that her father had always been someone who made her anxious. Two years...
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The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best

Tamara Schwambach Kano Myles · American Management Association
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback

In this constantly-connected, do-more-with-less world, being able to increase your productivity is a real advantage. Certified Professional Organizer (CPO[registered]) and productivity expert Tamara Myles has developed a simple model - the Productivity Pyramid - which provides an actionable...
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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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The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself

Shannon Kaiser · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Put a stop to self-sabotage and overcome your fears so that you can gain the confidence you need to reach your goals and become your own best friend. Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish...
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Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage

Molly Wizenberg · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this funny, frank, tender memoir and New York Times bestseller, the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette recounts how opening a restaurant sparked the first crisis of her young marriage. When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, he was a trained composer with a handful...
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Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness

MELISSA DAHL · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and why learning to accept your cringeworthy moments can be a social advantage.Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction?...
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Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss

Kenneth J Doka · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this "volume of rare sensitivity, penetrating understanding, and profound insights" (Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died) , Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual...
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A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children with Eating Disorders

Lucy Watson · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 109
Format: Print book

Increasing numbers of children and young people are presenting for treatment of an eating disorder, but there are many different types and they are often confused, making it difficult to know what support to offer.This easy-to-read guide presents all the vital information on a range of eating...
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