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Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love, and Life
Christine Hassler · New World Library; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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When our expectations are met and things go according to plan, we feel accomplished, in control, and on track. But when life does not live up to our expectations, we end up with an Expectation Hangover.Expectation Hangovers happen when a desired result is not met, an outcome is achieved... |
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The Caregivers: A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love
Nell Lake · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers and illuminates critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local... |
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Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating Well Without Spending a Lot
Melissa d'Arabian · Clarkson Potter Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Food Network star and New York Times bestselling author Melissa d'Arabian proves that healthy eating at home is easy, achievable, and affordable. Everyone wants to feel good about what they are eating, serving guests, and feeding their families, but most of us don't do our weekly... |
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Michael Harris · Current
Format: Hardcover
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Soon enough nobody will remember life before the Internet What does this unavoidable fact mean For future generations it wont mean anything very obvious They will be so immersed in online life that questions about the Internets basic purpose or meaning will vanish But those of us who have... |
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A Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem
Judy Foreman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover
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Out of 238 million American adults, 100 million live in chronic pain. And yet the press has paid more attention to the abuses of pain medications than the astoundingly widespread condition they are intended to treat. Ethically, the failure to manage pain better is tantamount to torture.... |
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
David Adam · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this ... fusion of science, history, and memoir, [science editor and writer] David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and explains... |
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Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives
Tom Farley MD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited... |
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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Angelo Volandes · Bloomsbury
Pages: 220
Format: Print book
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There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved... |
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Stronger, Faster, Smarter: A Guide to Your Most Powerful Body
Ryan Ferguson · Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguing Group (USA)
Pages: 161
Format: Print book
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After a decade behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Ryan Ferguson learned that physical strength and confidence are keys to survival - he now shares his strength secrets in Stronger, Faster, Smarter--the smartest, realest, and most doable fitness guide you'll ever read. How many... |
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Changing Normal: How I Helped My Husband Beat Cancer
Marilu Henner · Gallery Books, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author and beloved actor from the sitcom Taxi, Marilu Henner delivers an intimate account of how she and her husband stood together and triumphed.After they'd been dating only a short while, and as they were falling madly in love, Marilu Henner and Michael... |
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Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
Suzanne Braun Levine · Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Read Suzanne Braun Levine's posts on the Penguin Blog. An inspiring guide to maximizing creativity and happiness in the second half of life Suzanne Braun Levine follows her groundbreaking Inventing the Rest of Our Lives with fresh insights, research, and practical advice on the challenges... |
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