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Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

Felicia Day · Gallery Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An instant New York Times bestseller In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions. Including Felicia's personal stories...
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You Can Prevent a Stroke

Yamamoto, Joshua S. · RosettaBooks
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Did you know we have 100,000 heartbeats a day? That's a lot of wear and tear over the years as we age. Natural aging leads to artery plaque, high blood pressure, and slower and irregular heartbeats. You can do everything right, and time will still pass. You will still age. While you can influence...
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Three Birds Renovations: 400 renovation and styling secrets revealed

Cayless, Erin · Murdoch Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

When best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched their corporate careers to start Three Birds Renovations, they were rookie renovators with big ideas. Today, with many incredible house transformations under their toolbelt, they're a power trio turning neighbourhood ugly ducklings into...
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

Kleinman, Arthur · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began...
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Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful

Beck, Henning · Greystone Books - Greystone Books - Greystone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this mind-bending book, an esteemed neuroscientist explains why perfectionism is pointless - and argues that mistakes, missteps, and flaws are the keys to success.Remember that time you screwed up simple math or forgot the name of your favorite song? What if someone told you that such...
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bryson, Bill · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once again...
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Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Mary E. Wilson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- and they can be useless. What are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics continues to decline? Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know® examines the personal and societal implications...
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Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are

Bill Sullivan · National Geographic
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Why are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popular science comes a clever, life-changing look at what makes you you."I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?"...
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Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells: From Abraxas to Zoar

Lecouteux, Claude · Inner Traditions
Pages: 418
Format: Print book

A comprehensive handbook of more than 1,000 magical words, phrases, symbols, and secret alphabets * Explains the origins, derivatives, and practical usage of each word, phrase, and spell as well as how they can be combined for custom spells * Based on the magical traditions of Europe,...
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The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science

Jain M. D., Shaili · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From a physician and post-traumatic stress disorder specialist comes a nuanced cartography of PTSD, a widely misunderstood yet crushing condition that afflicts millions of Americans.The Unspeakable Mind is the definitive guide for a trauma-burdened age. With profound empathy and meticulous...
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