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Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change
Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change

Michelle Gielan · Benbella Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

We are all broadcasters. And the messages we choose to broadcast predict our success.All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don't say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new business. Managers broadcast to their teams...
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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
What Love Is: And What It Could Be

Carrie Jenkins · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social...
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Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy
Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy

Kit Yarrow · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition

Take a glimpse into the mind of the modern consumer A decade of swift and stunning change has profoundly affected the psychology of how, when, and why we shop and buy. In Decoding the New Consumer Mind, award-winning consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow shares surprising insights about the new motivations...
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Wages of Rebellion
Wages of Rebellion

Chris Hedges · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society...
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The creative architect : inside the great midcentury personality study
The creative architect : inside the great midcentury personality study

Pierluigi Serraino · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

An unknown episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology a 1950s University of California, Berkeley, evaluation of creativity with subjects including Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, and 37 other major architects is published for the first time. The story of midcentury...
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Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought
Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought

Tom Jackson · Shelter Harbor Press
Format: Hardcover

Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come...
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Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem

Matthew McKay PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

If you struggle with low self-esteem, or you're seeking positive and effective ways of building a healthy sense of self-worth, this much-anticipated fourth edition of the best-selling classic by Matthew McKay is your go-to guide. This fully revised edition features an innovative application...
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Sin, sex & subversion : how what was taboo in 1950s New York became America's new normal
Sin, sex & subversion : how what was taboo in 1950s New York became America's new normal

David Rosen · Carrel Books
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

"During the tumultuous 1950s in America, sex was as threatening to the nation's moral order as communism. New York was the capital of the post-World War II world and the epicenter of a fierce culture war over music, theatre, movies, fashion, and literature, as well as birth...
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Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

Angeline Stoll Lillard · Oxford University Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori....
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Crash course in dealing with difficult library customers
Crash course in dealing with difficult library customers

Shelley Mosley; Dennis C Tucker; Sandra Van Winkle · Libraries Unlimited
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Every library experiences difficult patrons. Thorough preparation is the best defense: it's always much better to be proactive than reactive. The authors of Crash Course in Dealing with Difficult Library Customers realized that these kinds of situations are more universal than unique,...
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The Miracle Mindset: Show Up. Step Up. You Are Stronger Than You Think.
The Miracle Mindset: Show Up. Step Up. You Are Stronger Than You Think.

J J Virgin · North Star Way
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Celebrity health expert and four-time New York Times bestselling author, JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event taught her to tap into an indomitable mindset, trust her instincts, and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son's life ... and her own. She'll share the lessons she learned...
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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Bertrand Russell · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, mathematician, and social critic. Russell helped lead the revolt against idealism and was one of the founders of analytic philosophy. Russell's writings have had a major impact on many fields including logic, mathematics, linguistics, and even...
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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human

Daniel J Siegel · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A scientist's exploration into the mysteries of the human mind. What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents -- its emotions, thoughts, and memories -- are often described, the essence of mind is rarely,...
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done - but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

Martin Kantor · Praeger
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

Although a significant number of individuals suffer from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) , most of these people see themselves as being perfectly normal. In actuality, they are missing out in life due to their being compulsively prompt, counterproductively perfectionistic,...
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