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The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are

Alicia Menendez · HarperBusiness
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means?Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental...
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Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short

Matthew Gutmann · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigatesWhy do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From vulgar locker-room talk to mansplaining to sexual harassment, society is too quick...
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The Beauty of Everyday Things

Soetsu Yanagi · Penguin Classics
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of Japanese design as we know it today: anonymity, quality, simplicity and honesty - and, of course, wabi-sabi, the beauty of imperfectionA Penguin...
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We Dwell in Possibilities

Carlotta G. Holton · Dorrance Pub Co
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback

As women, we are constantly evolving. Changing attitudes toward our gender have accommodated many, but not all. Still, we are told, it is progress. Women can now enter career paths never before considered. They can choose not to marry, not to have children, or become a single parent. Women...
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The 30-Minute Thyroid Cookbook: 125 Healing Recipes for Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's

Kyle, Emily, MS Rdn Cdn Clt · Rockridge Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The 30-Minute Thyroid Cookbook offers the fastest, everyday recipes to take control of hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's symptoms for long-term relief.When you're dealing with symptom flare-ups, the last thing you want to do is spend hours cooking. The 30-Minute Thyroid Cookbook offers...
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Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Practical Solutions for Improving Your Health and Performance

Khazan, Inna · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A mind- body approach to taking control of your physical and emotional health. Biofeedback is the process of training your body to control its involuntary actions, such as breathing and heart rate. Minor changes to these actions can significantly improve physical and emotional well- being....
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Dan Carlin · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will...
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Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

"A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting." - Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you'll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from "reactive...
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Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

Taylor, Astra · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times) , provides surprising...
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Curable: How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators is Trying to Transform our Health Care System

Travis Christofferson · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a "Moneyball" prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic...
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