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Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich

Jason Zweig · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

What happens inside our brains when we think about money? Quite a lot, actually, and some of it isn't good for our financial health. In "Your Money and Your Brain, " Jason Zweig explains why smart people make stupid financial decisions -- and what they can do to avoid these...
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Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

Sacha Z. Scoblic · Citadel; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The single glass of wine with dinner...the cold beer on a hot dayâ?¦the champagne flute raised in a toastâ?¦ what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with meâ?¦these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober.When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock...
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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

Shelley Carson · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Filled with research-based techniques for expanding creativity and increasing productivity This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist,...
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The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction

Pamela Peeke · Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Food addiction is real. Our body’s built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do things that give us pleasure: Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship—even the continued procreation of the human race—are driven by this system. Unfortunately,...
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Letting Go

Karen Levin Coburn · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years - from the senior year in high school through college graduation....
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Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Julia Cameron · Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pages: 286
Format: Book

The third book in Julia Cameron's groundbreaking The Artist's Way trilogy on creative self-renewal is now in paperback. In this inspiring twelve-week program, the third in Julia Cameron's beloved body of work on the creative process, Cameron offers guidance on weathering the periods...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live...
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

ARUN GANDHI · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

Daniel G. Amen · Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORKIn this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born...
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Logic: A Complete Introduction

Siu-Fan Lee · Teach Yourself
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback

Understand Logic is a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating though sometimes challenging subject. As well as looking at logic in theoretical terms the book considers its everyday uses and demonstrates how it has genuine practical applications. It will take you step by step through...
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Charles Murray · Crown Forum
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and classIn Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever...
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Boy Talk: How You Can Help Your Son Express His Emotions

Mary Polce-Lynch · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

What events and processes occur in the lives of open and expressive boys that often change them into locked-down, uncommunicative adolescents? In this book, a counseling psychologist draws on her own extensive research to help your understand the communication challenges faced by your son or a boy you care...
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