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Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

Barbara Oakley PhD · St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Paperback

Do you spend too much time learning with disappointing results? Do you find it difficult to remember what you read? Do you put off studying because it's boring and you're easily distracted? This book is for you.Dr. Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe have both struggled in the past with...
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Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Ron Friedman · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Hardcover

For generations, we've been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers,...
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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Greg McKeown · Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback

Do you ever feel like:* You're teetering right on the edge of burnout?* You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? * You're running faster but not moving closer to your goals? * Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we've...
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The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

Aja Raden · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

You've been lied to. Probably a lot. We're always stunned when we realize we've been deceived. We can't believe we were fooled: What was I thinking? How could I have believed that?We always wonder why we believed the lie. But have you ever wondered why you believe the truth?...
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Luke Burgis · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there's a psychological force just as powerful -- yet almost nobody has heard of it. It's responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others,...
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The Power of Awareness: And Other Secrets from the World's Foremost Spies, Detectives, and Special Operators on How to Stay Safe and Save Your Life

Dan Schilling · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In his empowering book, Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats using situational awareness and intuition just like the pros. Told with wit and wisdom, this compelling guide uses harrowing stories from Dan's special operations career and those of other experts to outline...
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Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal

Michael Baldwin · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Exploring the nature of trauma and how best to deal with it is not only a timely task, it is a necessary one. While COVID, isolation, and social unrest don't necessarily cause trauma - trauma is about how one reacts to a thing, not the thing in itself - the fact is that these days many...
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Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

Kenneth Cukier
Format: Hardcover

that will enable humanity to find the best way through a forest of looming problems is defined in Framers by internationally renowned authors Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Francis de Véricourt. From pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity...
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Wild and Free Book Club: 28 Activities to Make Books Come Alive

Ainsley Arment · HarperOne
Format: Paperback

From Wild Free, a wonderful collection of creative activities for parents, educators, and caregivers filled with engaging and fun ideas to help kids fall in love with literature and reading.Foster a love of reading in your child with Wild Free Book Club. An invaluable educational resource...
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The Red Book

C. G. Jung · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 371
Format: 1st Edition

The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his "confrontation with the unconscious," the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here...
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