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Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD

Robert O Friedel · Da Capo Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Over six million Americans suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) , a chronic, disabling psychiatric condition that causes extreme instability in their emotional lives, behavior, and self-image, and severely impacts their family and friends. In Borderline Personality Disorder...
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Emerson: Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America)

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Library of America
Pages: 1150
Format: Hardcover

The major works of Emerson's most productive period in their entirety: "Nature: Addresses and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life."
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Randy O. Frost · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that’s ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin,...
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Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers

Betty Edwards · Touchstone; 1st Fireside ed edition
Format: Paperback

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists,...
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The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life

Richard Wiseman · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Victorian philosopher William James had a theory about emotion and behavior: It isn’t that our feelings guide our actions (feel happy and you will laugh). On the contrary, it is our actions that guide our emotions (laugh and you will feel happy). This led James to a remarkable conclusion:...
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Peter Singer · Rodale Books; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose...
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Cracked, Not Broken: Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt

Kevin Hines · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At 19 years old, Kevin attempted to take his own life...
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The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits

Emrys Westacott · Princeton University Press
Format: eBook

Are there times when it's right to be rude? Can we distinguish between good and bad gossip? Am I a snob if I think that NPR listeners are likely to be better informed than devotees of Fox News? Does sick humor do anyone any good? Can I think your beliefs are absurd but still respect...
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Pets on the Couch: Neurotic Dogs, Compulsive Cats, Anxious Birds, and the New Science of Animal Psychiatry

Nicholas Dodman · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The pioneering veterinarian and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dog Who Loved Too Much, and the national bestseller, The Cat Who Cried for Help, recounts his uniquely entertaining - and poignant - stories of treating animals for all-too-human problems as he reveals his amazing...
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Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom from a Remarkable Man

Morrie Schwartz · Walker & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

For everyone who enjoyed the inspiration and wisdom of Morrie Schwartz in Mitch Albom's moving best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie, here is Morrie's own book, presenting the philosophies by which he triumphantly lived, even as he faced the end of his life.For decades Morrie engaged...
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

Dan Ariely · Harper; 1 edition
Format: Print book

"Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act." - James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably...
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