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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert · Storey Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined with... |
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Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
Craig Lambert · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound... |
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Noam Chomsky · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Global Discontents is a compelling set of interviews with Noam Chomsky, who identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the... |
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The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James · Farrar
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In The Glamour of Strangeness, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them."... |
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The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Lissa Rankin · Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Not many people in the medical world are talking about how being afraid can make us sick - but the truth is that fear, left untreated, becomes a serious risk factor for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Now Lissa Rankin, M.D., explains why we need to heal ourselves from... |
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Unmasking Narcissism: A Guide to Understanding the Narcissist in Your Life
Mark Ettensohn PsyD · Althea Press
Pages: 186
Format: Print book
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Whether the narcissist in your life is a boss, coworker, relative, or romantic partner, the exercises and advice in Unmasking Narcissism will help you set healthy boundaries and make sense of this complex and often painful issue. In this groundbreaking guide from clinical psychologist... |
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Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Mackenzie Phillips · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success  Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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EGO vs. EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps with Emotional Intelligence
Jen Shirkani · Bibliomotion
Pages: 185
Format: Hardcover
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In EGO vs. EQ, nominated for a 2014 USA Best Book Award, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEOs fail in the first eighteen months on the job. This book teaches... |
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA · Pear Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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