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Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists

Danielle Krysa · Chronicle Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Creative block presents the most crippling - and unfortunately universal - challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international...
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Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

Ken Robinson · Viking
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformationSir Ken Robinsons TED talk video and groundbreaking book, The Element, introduced readers to a new concept of self-fulfillment...
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Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan

Francesca Gino · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Book

You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick - and you finally...
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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

JONATHAN RAUCH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist...
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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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Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises & Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain't Pretty

Kim Piper Werker · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

Fans of DIY projects and crafts will conquer their fear of failure and create their own masterpieces using this fun and inspiring handbook. Get Crafty. Make Great Stuff. Be Creative The number one fear of all creative types--crafters, DIYers, makers, artists--is that failure lurks right...
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The Prediabetes Diet Plan: How to Reverse Prediabetes and Prevent Diabetes through Healthy Eating and Exercise

Hillary Wright · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback

A practical, empowering guide to managing and reversing prediabetes through diet and exercise, from a registered dietitian. Affecting 79 million Americans, prediabetes often develops into full-blown type 2 diabetes, one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Increasingly diagnosed...
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Unconditional Love: A Guide to Navigating the Joys and Challenges of Being a Grandparent Today

Jane Isay · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful meditation on the joys of being a grandparent and a practical guide to help you and your adult children make the most of your relationship with a grandchild.For many grandparents, a grandchild offers a second chance to become the parent they didn't have the time or the energy...
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The Priority List: A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons

David Menasche · Touchstone
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Based on a beloved teacher's most popular lesson, The Priority List is a bold, inspirational story of learning, love, and legacy that challenges us to ask: What truly matters in life? David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students,...
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Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

Julia Samuel · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An instant bestseller in the UK, Grief Works is a profoundly optimistic and compassionate handbook for anyone suffering a loss - from the expected death of a parent to the sudden death of a child or spouse - as well as a guide for those who want to help their grieving loved ones.Death affects...
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A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

Mark Bittman · Pam Krauss Books
Format: Hardcover

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times' only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food...
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Mixed-Up Love: Relationships, Family, and Religious Identity in the 21st Century

Jon M. Sweeney · Jericho Books
Format: Paperback

Dating, commitment, kids, and family--it's all hard work, and when you come from different religious backgrounds it's even harder. Jon, a Catholic writer, and Michal, a Reconstructionist rabbi, live out the challenges of an interfaith relationship everyday as husband and wife, and as parents...
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Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High: From Vietnam to Legalization

Roger A Roffman · Pegasus Books, 2014.
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

As public attitudes about pot undergo rapid change, Roger Roffman's portrait of marijuana in America rises above punditry and rhetoric Roger Roffman first discovered marijuana while serving as a US Army officer in Vietnam. From these seemingly innocuous beginnings, Roffman has been...
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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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Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

Tara Mohr · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

A "Huffington Post" columnist and women's leadership expert outlines practical skills that women can use to implement positive change, covering such topics as self-esteem and how to overcome sabotaging gender rules of conduct.--Publisher information.
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