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Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times
Piero Ferrucci · Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Random House, 2015.
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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The bestselling psychotherapist and author of The Power of Kindness provides concrete, meaningful lessons in developing internal willpower during times of personal crisis.We all experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each possess deep reserves of inner strength and wisdom... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect... |
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Love Is All You Need: The Art and Science of Non-Training Your Dog
Jennifer Arnold · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Dog's Eyes - the inspiration for the PBS documentary - a paradigm-shifting approach to living with and loving our dogsThere are few people who understand dogs better than Jennifer Arnold. Twenty-five years after she founded Canine... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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Good sex : getting off without checking out
Jessica Graham · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 304
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Jessica Graham demonstrates that a deep spiritual life and an extraordinary sex life are not mutually exclusive in this keenly personal and unflinchingly frank guide to finding mindfulness in sex without losing the fun and adventure. Not only a tool kit for creating a rich and deeply satisfying... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen... |
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Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion-9 Practices for Opening the Heart
Radhule Weininger · Shambhala
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Nine simple mindfulness practices anyone can use to generate compassion--toward oneself, others, and the world--and to live from that place of intelligent kindness in the face of life's difficulties.Compassion is the urge to understand and alleviate the suffering of another being. And if that... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
Ruth Whippman · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder?After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly... |
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Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
Chade-Meng Tan · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena.In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng... |
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This Is Me Letting You Go
Heidi Priebe · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 123
Format: Paperback
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Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh... |
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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A leading authority draws on new research to explain why the adolescent years are so developmentally crucial, and what we must do to raise happier, more successful kids.Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg... |
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