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ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists

Teresa M Evans · Academic Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists is a career planning guide and practical tool for graduate students and postdocs. This book provides step-by-step processes for the assessment of career goals and the actions that can be taken in order to achieve them. ReSearch includes chapters on the basics...
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Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

Margaret McMullan · McPherson & Company
Format: Hardcover

What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger...
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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

Barbara Bradley Hagerty · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better - and for good.There's no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It's...
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Love Me True: Overcoming the Surprising Ways We Deceive Ourselves in Relationships

Jason B Whiting · Plain Sight
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

How can love, which is so beautiful and fun, cause such emotional ups and downs? Dr. Jason B. Whiting, a licensed marriage and family therapist, focuses on common relationships to show that deception is at the root of most marital problems. Overcome this and gain back that trust and excitement...
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Beyond Mars and Venus: The Power of Evolutionary Relationships

John Gray · Benbella Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

For more than twenty years, John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. By learning to speak each other's...
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Everyday Narcissism: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Nancy Van Dyken · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Narcissism is a belief that the world revolves around us, and that what happens in the world happens because of us. Most of us live with a form of narcissism so common and so deeply embedded that we don't even know we have it. This "everyday narcissism" (EN) comes from a combination...
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This is cancer : everything you need to know about getting through it, from the waiting room to... the bedroom

Laura Holmes-Haddad · Seal
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed or color. Its patients are literally everywhere. When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed, she discovered shelf upon shelf of overly-earnest, somber, gray survival books, and knew there had to be a better way. "This Is Cancer"...
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Calming Your Angry Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anger and Bring Peace to Your Life

Jeffrey Brantley MD · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition

Anger is a natural emotion - and a part of what makes us human. But when you lose control of your anger, it can get in the way of meaningful relationships, successful careers, and ultimately, feelings of happiness and enjoyment. In this highly anticipated book, renowned mindfulness expert...
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1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12

Thomas W Phelan · Sourcebooks
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

The gold standard of parenting books and a 2016 Family Choice Award winner!"1-2-3 Magic made parenting fun again.""My three-year-old has become a different little girl, and she is so much happier now.""All I have to say is that the ideas in this book really WORK!...
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The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday

Rob Walker · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present...
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Marry Smart: Advice for Finding THE ONE

Susan Patton · Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

You’re single and you know what you want in your life. And if your dreams include getting married and having children, this fresh new approach to finding the right one at the right time shows the way to make those dreams a reality. A graduate of one of the first classes of women...
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I've Been Thinking . . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

MARIA SHRIVER · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 224

A book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. In this moving and powerful book,...
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

Michele Borba · Touchstone
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining...
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Text, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life

AARON CAYCEDO-KIMURA · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

An illustrated guide to the challenges and pleasures of the introverted lifeIntroversion is "in." But there are still many misconceptions about introverts in the world. They're shy. Anti-social. They don't want to have close relationships. They're all cat people. They don't like...
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Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating

Ann Saffi Biasetti · Shambhala
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step holistic approach to recovering fully from disordered eating, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated life.Those who struggle with disordered eating often...
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