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Father Loss: Daughters Discuss Life, Love, and Why Losing a Dad Means So Much

Elyce Wakerman · Yucca Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

As Elyce Wakerman found in the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a father - through death, divorce, or abandonment - is the event that shapes a girl's life and all her future relationships. "In my fantasy," one woman commented, "he remains the perfect,...
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Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service

Harry Kopp · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Career Diplomacy is an insider's guide to the Foreign Service as an institution, a profession, and a career. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Kopp and Naland provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and candid account of the life and work of professional US diplomats, who advance...
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Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle: Resolve the Power Struggle and Build Trust, Responsibility, and Respect

Neil D Brown · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 180
Format: Print book

"Full of practical expectations ... Warmly ­recommended." - Library Journal starred review Power struggles between parents and teens are nothing new, but chronic control battles are destructive to teen development as well as the entire family. According to psychotherapist...
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Big Fit Girl: Embrace the Body You Have

LOUISE GREEN · GREYSTONE Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them from improving their health and fitness. By telling her own story of how she stopped dieting, got off the couch, and unleashed her inner athlete - as well as showcasing...
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It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

Julia Cameron · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller The Artist's Way. Now at the age of sixty-five, she shows her contemporaries how retirement can be the most creative and fulfilling stage of life yet. For some, retirement is a day to work toward with anticipation. Others approach...
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Radical Beauty: How to Transform Yourself from the Inside Out

Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Feel more beautiful, healthy, and energized than you have in years! Now, a revolutionary new way of helping you realize the true beauty that is your birthright! Deepak Chopra, a leading pioneer of integrative medicine and New York Times bestselling author of What Are You Hungry For?,...
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You Are Getting Sleepy: Lifestyle-Based Solutions for Insomnia

Paul Glovinsky PhD · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

For readers enticed by Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution but looking for the medical evidence to support its claims, two doctors have incorporated the latest research into a guide designed to help insomniacs get sleepy. "For insomniacs who don't want a cosmetic solution, this...
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Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness

Shasta Nelson · Seal Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

With the constant connectivity of today's world, it's never been easier to meet people and make new friends - but it's never been harder to form meaningful friendships.In Frientimacy, award-winning speaker Shasta Nelson shows how anyone can form stronger, more meaningful friendships,...
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Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

Amy Alkon · St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition
Format: Print book

"Miss Manners with Fangs." --LA Weekly We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals...
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Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself

ERIK DECKERS · Que Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Want a new job or career? Need to demonstrate more value to customers or employers? Use today's hottest social media platforms to build the powerful personal brand that gets you what you want! In this completely updated book, Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy help you use social media to and networking...
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Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love

Linda Carroll · New World Library
Format: Paperback

In Love Cycles, veteran couples therapist Linda Carroll presents a groundbreaking model of the five natural stages of romantic relationships - the Merge, Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment, Decision, and Wholehearted Love - and a guide for navigating through them toward lasting love....
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Paint yourself calm

Jean Haines · Search Press Ltd
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Meditative, peaceful and calming, watercolour painting offers a sense of control and self-worth to everyone, with no judgement or goal beyond the joy of painting itself. This book shows you how to calm and enhance your outlook through the movement of brush on paper.Master artist Jean Haines...
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Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

ALISON GREEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations, from the host of the popular website Ask A Manager, and New York Magazine's work advice columnist.There's a reason Alison Green has been dubbed the "Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years as a workplace...
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The Self-Acceptance Project: How to Be Kind and Compassionate Toward Yourself in Any Situation

Tami Simon · Sounds True
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Even after years of spiritual practice, self-improvement, or therapy, many of us still have trouble with one essential challenge: self-acceptance. How do we stop from constantly judging ourselves as inadequate, finding fault with our bodies, or being plagued by our inner critics? The Self-Acceptance...
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Get Over It!: Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff

IYANLA VANZANT · Smiley Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Get Over It is a tool and a process that offers readers a path to dominion over their most powerful asset: their mind. In today's turbulent climate, it can be challenging to stay on top of what is going on around us day-to-day, such as economic shifts, societal breakdowns, and lifestyle...
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