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Moving Forward in Mid-Career: A Guide to Rebuilding Your Career after Being Fired or Laid Off

John Weiss · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Losing a job is one of the most devastating events one can experience. For trauma, it ranks up there with divorce, loss of a loved one, or permanent personal injury, and it happens more often that one would think. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 50,000 workers...
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Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People--and Break Free

Stephanie Moulton Sarkis · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A mental health expert sheds light on "gaslighting"--the manipulative technique used by sociopaths, narcissists, and others--offering practical strategies to cope and break free. Gaslighting is a technique of manipulating others to gain control, often practiced by those with personality...
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Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression

Chris Aiken · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Approaching depression as a complex disorder with many different facets rather than all-or-nothing.Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness they never asked for. This book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the concept...
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Unwelcome Inheritance: Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive Behaviors

Lisa Sue Woititz · Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Parents affected by addiction can enable their children's substance abuse and even model addictive behaviors learned from their own parents, passing the cycle on from generation to generation. Learn what you can do to help yourself, your children, and future generations break the cycle...
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The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories

Chris Geiger · Oneworld Publications; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

"An inspiring compilation for anyone struggling with cancer. Readers will find comfort and even a few laughs in the pages. " - Library JournalThe Cancer Survivors Club brings together firsthand accounts of ordinary people who have beaten cancer. They are old and young, their...
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How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen · How Will You Measure Your Life? [Paperback]
Format: Paperback

In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences...
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The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Children Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices

Maureen Healy · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

While growing up has never been easy, today's world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, cites Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Healy, who was a "wild...
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Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's...
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Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus

Sandra Bond Chapman Ph.D. · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor a program to strengthen your brain's capacity to think smarter. In this all-inclusive book, Dr. Chapman delivers...
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The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts

Hanne Blank · Ten Speed Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

This empowering exercise guide is big on attitude, giving plus-size women the motivation and information they need to move their bodies and improve their health.Hanne Blank, proud fat girl and personal trainer, understands the physical and emotional roadblocks that overweight women face...
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

GEORGE ANDERS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable...
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

Jon Acuff · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn't the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream...
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