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Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class

Abby Lee Miller · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Ultimate Tiger Mom Abby Lee Millerthe passionate unapologetically outspoken tough-as-nails star of Lifetimes phenomenal hit Dance Moms and Abbys Ultimate Dance Competitionoffers inspirational tough love guidance for parents who want to help their children succeed and for readers of all ages...
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American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

Kate Sweeney · The University of Georgia Press,
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

<p>Someone dies. What happens next?<br>One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a greenburial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, "You can make mummies with it!" while...
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Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage offers a treasury of tales that speak to the tenderness and passion, difficulties and blessings of love. Jewish tradition overflows with love stories from the Bible, Talmud, and Midrash. Folktales continue the tradition, and contemporary writers highlight...
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On Friendship

Alexander Nehamas · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Michel de Montaigne, author of the seminal essay "Of Friendship," found it nearly impossible to account for the great friendship of his life. Why is something so commonplace and universal...
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Everyday Ambassador: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World

Kate Otto · Atria Paperback ; Hillsboro, Oregon
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In Everyday Ambassador Kate Otto brings people together even as our digital networks pull us further apart.In a world of limitless technology, we are more connected than ever before but our hyper-connected lifestyles threaten our ability to know ourselves and interact with each other. By focusing...
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Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life

Louise Hay · Hay House
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Since its publication in 1984, Louise Hay's international bestseller You Can Heal Your Life has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Now, in MIRROR WORK: 21 DAYS TO HEAL YOUR LIFE, the popular teacher and author offers the first book dedicated to her signature practice for personal...
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Choose Your Own Adulthood: A Small Book about the Small Choices that Make the Biggest Difference

HAL RUNKEL · GREENLEAF Book Group LLC
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Congratulations, reader! You've successfully navigated through the trials of childhood and adolescence. Now, as you voyage through high school to college and beyond, you're set to begin your next big adventure: adulthood. A few big decisions await you, from majors and minors to jobs...
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Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills: A Revival of Forgotton Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions

Gene Logsdon · Echo Point Books & Media
Pages: 482
Format: Hardcover

Gene Logsdon has long served as a voice of grounded agricultural wisdom. His wry humor and keen insights have made him a favorite among homesteaders, gardeners, orchardists, and farmers. In Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills, he turns his attention to traditional crafts and practices,...
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U Thrive: How to Succeed in College

Daniel Lerner, MAPP. · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback

From the professors who teach NYU's most popular elective class, "Science of Happiness," a fun, comprehensive guide to surviving and thriving in college and beyond.Every year, almost 4,000,000 students begin their freshman year at colleges and universities nationwide. Most...
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Your Power to Heal: Resolving Psychological Barriers to Your Physical Health

Henry Grayson · Sounds True
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Your Essential How-To Guide for Self-Healing The greatest medical breakthrough in recent years isn't the creation of a new drug or treatment - it's the discovery of how much your mind affects your health. With Your Power to Heal, Dr. Henry Grayson offers a treasury of techniques...
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Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression

Chris Aiken · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Approaching depression as a complex disorder with many different facets rather than all-or-nothing.Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness they never asked for. This book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the concept...
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The Art of the White Shirt: Over 30 Ways to Wear a White T-Shirt, Blouse or Shirt

Libby VanderPloeg · Hardie Grant
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

White shirts are a classic - they can be dressed up or down, be worn fitted, cropped, or tight, with skirts or jeans, or just on their own, if you're feeling daring! The Art of the White Shirt is a fun, inspirational book on how to make the most of your white t-shirts, blouses, or shirts....
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Play and the Human Condition

Thomas S. Henricks · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture--Henricks identifies conditions...
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How to Act Like a Grown-Up

Mark DuPre · Broadstreet Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Filled with a mountain of practical advice, enjoy this timeless collection of grown-up perspectives that many never get to hear on their way to twenty-one. With humor and occasional bite, How to Act Like a Grown-Up is an indispensable guide for moving into adulthood. Mark addresses thirty...
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Unplug: A Simple Guide to Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers

Suze Yalof Schwartz · Harmony
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

Whether you're a Fortune 500 CEO or someone bogged down with a never-ending to-do list, the proven secret to being more effective and living a happier, healthier life is to hurry up and slow down, to unplug. Studies show that you can get more done - and do it better- by doing less, just...
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