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How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: 9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis

Jim Taylor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Few of us go through life without experiencing some sort of crisis, whether health, financial, relationship, career, or personal safety. Crises happen and they are often out of our control. But the one thing we can control is how we respond to them. Yet, our natural instincts often hinder...
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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Laura Lynne Jackson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift:...
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Jennifer Pastiloff · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered...
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Childless Living: The Joys and Challenges of Life without Children

Lisette Schuitemaker · Findhorn Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

An exploration of the self-fulfilling lives of people who, by chance or choice, have no children of their own * Investigates the life choices people make around having children and alternate ways of finding purpose in life * Based on a global survey and more than 50 in-depth interviews...
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Breaking Through Silence

Kathleen Hoy Foley · Women in Hiding Press; 1st edition
Format: Print book

Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women for women like she was who do not recognize that they were sexually assaulted; who do not do not recognize the permanent, living consequences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse; and who do not recognize that they are profoundly...
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Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Jennifer Summit · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there...
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The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World

Michaela Chung · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Learn the tools to shed your mask of extroversion, develop your own magnetism, and reveal the true you.One third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates - even enforces - an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic,...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled...
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Your Brain on Plants: The Authoritative Guide to Herbs for Mood and Mind

Nicolette Perry · The Experiment
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

By expert authors in both medicinal herbs and neuroscience - an unprecedented, highly informative, plant-by-plant guide to improving mind, mood, and memoryThe importance of mental and physical health, separately and together, is rising in the consciousness of Western and alternative medicine,...
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

Liza Long · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother...
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

DANIEL TAMMET · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing...
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