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Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen

Marc Lesser · New World Library
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

What would your work and your life look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time? "A mindful leader makes the work environment a generative social field in which...
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I Just Haven't Met You Yet: Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life

Tracy Strauss · Skyhorse
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A Modern-Day Bridget Jones's Diary Meets Eat, Pray, Love, One of Bustle's "Writers to Watch" Offers Advice, Life Lessons, and Lots of HeartI Just Haven't Met You Yet details Tracy Strauss's dating history and her journey to dismantle the effects and stigmas of an abusive...
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The Elegant Warrior: How To Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself

Heather Hansen · Page Two
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback

Can you win life's battles without losing yourself? Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. Award-winning attorney Heather Hansen has spent over twenty years fighting on the battlefields of the courts -- but even in her fiercest clashes, she's...
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The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words

Ella Berthoud · Leaping Hare Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered through this universal act.The Art of Mindful Reading embraces the joy of absorbing words on a page, encouraging a state of mind as deeply therapeutic and vital to our wellbeing...
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction

Meghan Cox Gurdon · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
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The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry

Raj Kumar · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme povertyDrawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world's poorest people to make progress....
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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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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap

Gish Jen · Vintage
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What's more important - self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves - a family, a religion, a troop? Or is our mantra "To thine own self be true"?...
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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

Rick Hanson · Harmony
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

These days it's hard to count on the world outside. So it's vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion - the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every...
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