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The Brain Health Kitchen: Preventing Alzheimer's Through Food

Annie Fenn MD - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

A physician and chef identifies the top ten brain-smart ingredients and shows that eating to maintain brain health is easy, accessible, delicious, and necessary for everyone. The foods we choose to eat (or not) sit at the core of the Alzheimer's epidemic. In The Brain Health Kitchen,...
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Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up

Shelly Fisher - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss. Breaking Sad helps us start conversations through its pages of personal stories and suggestions from everyday...
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Coming Back: How to Win the Job You Want When You've Lost the Job You Need

Fawn Germer
Format: Hardcover

Millions of mid- and late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school. Our unemployment rate is more than three times the national...
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The Best of Me

David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence....
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50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms

Dev Aujla - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

A new personalized way to find the perfect job - while staying calm during the process. You are so much more than a resume or job application, but how can you communicate that to your potential employer? You need to learn to ask the right questions, stop using job sites, and start doing...
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The Mindful College Applicant: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for the Admissions Process

Belinda H.Y. Chiu - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In a time when crossing guards are posted to prevent high schoolers from jumping in front of trains and parents shelling out $100K for packaged college applications, education has become a mad race to grab the Ivy ring. Based on experience in admissions with the Ivy League and other highly...
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The Fun Habit: How the Disciplined Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

Mike Rucker - ?Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Discover the latest compelling scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life. Doesn't it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes? There is an easy fix, hiding in plain...
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Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

Alyssa Blask Campbell - Harvest
Format: Hardcover

The Future is Emotionally IntelligentWe're in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions: Don't Cry. You're Fine. Don't Make a Scene. As our understanding of developing brains has increased,...
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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Robert Waldinger M.D. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize. What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful?...
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Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks

Drew Ramsey - Harper Wave; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through the foods we eat, including a six-week plan to help you get started eating for better mental health.Depression and anxiety disorders are rising, affecting more than 58 million people in the United...
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