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Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

Sarah Hays Coomer - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

A manual for activism that begins with our most powerful asset--our bodiesEven as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate...
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Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget

NELSON DELLIS - Abrams Image
Format: Paperback

Throughout his research into memory theory, Nelson Dellis found existing memory improvement guides to be wanting - overcomplicated, dry, and stodgy. So he decided to write a book that is approachable and fun, centered on what people actually need to remember. In Remember It!, Dellis teaches...
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Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with

Dolly Freed - Tin House Books; Revised Edition edition
Format: Paperback

After being out of print for decades, Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and (Almost) No Money is being reissued with an afterword by an older and wiser Dolly Freed. In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Livingabout...
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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell."The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." - Neil GaimanDrawn...
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How to be yourself : quiet your inner critic and rise above social anxiety

Ellen Hendriksen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Picking up where Quiet ended, How to Be Yourself is the best book you'll ever read about how to conquer social anxiety. "This book is also a groundbreaking road map to finally being your true, authentic self. " --Susan Cain, New York Times, USA Today and nationally bestselling...
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Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity

Rahul - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he is working on growing skin cells and injecting them into the brain to replace worn out neural tissue, Dr. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience....
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Do Listen: Understand whats really being said. Find a new way forward.

Bobette Buster - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

At a time when a bit more listening might serve us well, Do Listen is a handy guide to the art of communication. For anyone who wants to hold meaningful conversations, speak with eloquence, and build community, here is an accessible handbook with tips on how to listen skillfully, take a discussion...
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Talk Matters!: Saving the World One Word at a Time; Solving Complex Issues Through Brain Science, Mindful Awareness and Effective Process

Mary V Gelinas - FriesenPress
Format: Paperback

We create the present and future in our meetings and conversations every day. What can we do to increase the likelihood that we're creating a future that we all want? We can start by talking more constructively and productively about what matters to us all.After decades of advising...
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Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

CALEB WILDE - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director - what Time magazine called a "must read" - reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets...
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How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

Marlee Grace - Morrow Gift
Format: Hardcover

This book is a quiet revolution, a guide filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life. From business anecdotes about fulfilling orders to more personal stories about Marlee Grace's recovery from divorce and addiction,...
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