If you are living with, are close to, or are yourself someone who is hoarding, you'll knowthat the disorder goes far deeper than most people realise, affecting the whole family andpresenting huge challenges to the physical, mental, emotional and even financialwellbeing of anyone involved.Jo Cooke is Director of one of the UK's leading support services for people affected byhoarding and clutter, and has written this sensitive and empathetic book to help anyoneexperiencing hoarding difficulties. She gives insight into Hoarding Disorder - explainingwhat it is and, importantly, what it isn't - and what may trigger hoarding. There arestrategies for how to assess the scale of situation and lay the groundwork to address it,and insights into who can help and how they can do it.
Sheldon Press
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9781529375565
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Paperback
The Practice
By Godin, Seth
Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward.Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work. Godin insists that writer's block is a myth, that consistency is far more important than authenticity, and that experiencing the imposter syndrome is a sign that you're a well-adjusted human. Most of all, he shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution, the one you've been seeking to share all along.With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear.
Portfolio
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9780593328972
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Hardcover
Influence Is Your Superpower
By Chance, Zoe
Zoe Chance has been a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesperson, and the brand manager for massive accounts. Years spent trying to get people to buy stuff they didn't really want or need taught her something fundamental about human nature and about how to really influence people over the long term: The transactional approach just doesn't work. So Chance went to Harvard Business School to understand what did.Of the hundreds of books written about influence, nearly all focus narrowly on one-time transactions that are often framed in the winner-take-all language of the battleground. But nobody wants to be a target, and few of us want to think of our colleagues, family members, or even customers that way. When we shift our focus away from short-term transactional influence, we see that to be genuinely influential we need to work together with other people rather than trying to have power over them.
Random House
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9781984854339
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Hardcover
Change
By Centola, Damon
Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The only problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. It is a world of simple contagions, which spread quickly to everyone, but do not have any lasting impact on what we think or how we live. When it comes to transforming behaviors and beliefs, the dynamics of change are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex.
Little, Brown Spark
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9780316457330
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Hardcover
Magus
By Grafton, Anthony
A revelatory new account of the magus -- the learned magician -- and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe.. In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus -- a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, the artist, the Christian humanist, and the religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world.
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
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9780674659735
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Hardcover
Supercommunicators
By Duhigg, Charles
From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work - and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life"A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best." - Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden PotentialCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation.
Random House Audio
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9780593862063
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Audiobook
All Feelings Welcome
By Oriard, Kelly
A proven framework for helping children become caring, confident, and resilientIn All Feelings Welcome, Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen, early childhood experts and founders of the Slumberkins brand of characters supporting emotional learning, provide accessible products and tools for empowering kids to build lifelong emotional intelligence. You'll discover how to approach building connections that will have lasting, positive impacts throughout your child's life. Then, you'll follow along with an easy-to-use framework that you can use in your day-to-day to build connection, community, and togetherness -- the key ingredients of emotional wellbeing as our kids grow.Written for parents and caregivers, this book helps you support children in noticing, naming, and welcoming all feelings through the everyday parenting moments and in the more challenging times when you and your child need support.
Wiley
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9781394220588
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Hardcover
Liar in a Crowded Theater
By Kosseff, Jeff
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to enjoy this right.When commentators and politicians discuss misinformation, they often repeat five words: "fire in a crowded theater." Though governments can, if they choose, attempt to ban harmful lies, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation, how effective will their efforts really be? Can they punish someone for yelling "fire" in a crowded theater -- and would those lies then have any less impact? How do governments around the world respond to the spread of misinformation, and when should the US government protect the free speech of liars?In Liar in a Crowded Theater, law professor Jeff Kosseff addresses the pervasiveness of lies, the legal protections they enjoy, the harm they cause, and how to combat them.
Johns Hopkins University Press
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9781421447322
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Hardcover
I Can Take it from Here
By Forbes, Lisa
An emotional, page-turning account of unhealed trauma and personal transformation that will break your heart and change your mind, in the tradition of Somebody's Daughter, A Piece of Cake, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We ReapedRiveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness - including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison - and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.The youngest of six children, Lisa grew up in a Chicago housing project where she endured sexual, religious, and emotional abuse as a little girl. A voracious reader, she graduated high school at 15 and went to work as a secretary in a downtown insurance office, became pregnant at 16 and, at 19, unexpectedly and uncharacteristically committed a violent act, stabbing and killing the father of her daughter.
Truth to Power
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9781586423049
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Paperback
The Behavioral Code
By Rooij, Benjamin Van
Why do some laws radically change behavior whereas others are consistently ignored and routinely broken? Why do we keep relying on harsh punishment against crime even though it continues to fail?Professors Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine present the first accessible analysis of behavioral jurisprudence, which will fundamentally alter how we understand the connection between law and human behavior. Drawing upon decades of research, the authors reveal the behavioral code: the root causes and hidden forces that drive human behavior and our responses to society's laws.The Behavioral Code offers a necessary and different approach to battling crime and injustice that is based in understanding the science of human misconduct - rather than relying on punishment to shape behavior.
Understanding Hoarding
By Cooke, Jo
If you are living with, are close to, or are yourself someone who is hoarding, you'll knowthat the disorder goes far deeper than most people realise, affecting the whole family andpresenting huge challenges to the physical, mental, emotional and even financialwellbeing of anyone involved.Jo Cooke is Director of one of the UK's leading support services for people affected byhoarding and clutter, and has written this sensitive and empathetic book to help anyoneexperiencing hoarding difficulties. She gives insight into Hoarding Disorder - explainingwhat it is and, importantly, what it isn't - and what may trigger hoarding. There arestrategies for how to assess the scale of situation and lay the groundwork to address it,and insights into who can help and how they can do it.
The Practice
By Godin, Seth
Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward.Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work. Godin insists that writer's block is a myth, that consistency is far more important than authenticity, and that experiencing the imposter syndrome is a sign that you're a well-adjusted human. Most of all, he shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution, the one you've been seeking to share all along.With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear.
Influence Is Your Superpower
By Chance, Zoe
Zoe Chance has been a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesperson, and the brand manager for massive accounts. Years spent trying to get people to buy stuff they didn't really want or need taught her something fundamental about human nature and about how to really influence people over the long term: The transactional approach just doesn't work. So Chance went to Harvard Business School to understand what did.Of the hundreds of books written about influence, nearly all focus narrowly on one-time transactions that are often framed in the winner-take-all language of the battleground. But nobody wants to be a target, and few of us want to think of our colleagues, family members, or even customers that way. When we shift our focus away from short-term transactional influence, we see that to be genuinely influential we need to work together with other people rather than trying to have power over them.
Change
By Centola, Damon
Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The only problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. It is a world of simple contagions, which spread quickly to everyone, but do not have any lasting impact on what we think or how we live. When it comes to transforming behaviors and beliefs, the dynamics of change are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex.
Magus
By Grafton, Anthony
A revelatory new account of the magus -- the learned magician -- and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe.. In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus -- a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, the artist, the Christian humanist, and the religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world.
Supercommunicators
By Duhigg, Charles
From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work - and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life"A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best." - Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden PotentialCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation.
All Feelings Welcome
By Oriard, Kelly
A proven framework for helping children become caring, confident, and resilientIn All Feelings Welcome, Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen, early childhood experts and founders of the Slumberkins brand of characters supporting emotional learning, provide accessible products and tools for empowering kids to build lifelong emotional intelligence. You'll discover how to approach building connections that will have lasting, positive impacts throughout your child's life. Then, you'll follow along with an easy-to-use framework that you can use in your day-to-day to build connection, community, and togetherness -- the key ingredients of emotional wellbeing as our kids grow.Written for parents and caregivers, this book helps you support children in noticing, naming, and welcoming all feelings through the everyday parenting moments and in the more challenging times when you and your child need support.
Liar in a Crowded Theater
By Kosseff, Jeff
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to enjoy this right.When commentators and politicians discuss misinformation, they often repeat five words: "fire in a crowded theater." Though governments can, if they choose, attempt to ban harmful lies, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation, how effective will their efforts really be? Can they punish someone for yelling "fire" in a crowded theater -- and would those lies then have any less impact? How do governments around the world respond to the spread of misinformation, and when should the US government protect the free speech of liars?In Liar in a Crowded Theater, law professor Jeff Kosseff addresses the pervasiveness of lies, the legal protections they enjoy, the harm they cause, and how to combat them.
I Can Take it from Here
By Forbes, Lisa
An emotional, page-turning account of unhealed trauma and personal transformation that will break your heart and change your mind, in the tradition of Somebody's Daughter, A Piece of Cake, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We ReapedRiveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness - including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison - and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.The youngest of six children, Lisa grew up in a Chicago housing project where she endured sexual, religious, and emotional abuse as a little girl. A voracious reader, she graduated high school at 15 and went to work as a secretary in a downtown insurance office, became pregnant at 16 and, at 19, unexpectedly and uncharacteristically committed a violent act, stabbing and killing the father of her daughter.
The Behavioral Code
By Rooij, Benjamin Van
Why do some laws radically change behavior whereas others are consistently ignored and routinely broken? Why do we keep relying on harsh punishment against crime even though it continues to fail?Professors Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine present the first accessible analysis of behavioral jurisprudence, which will fundamentally alter how we understand the connection between law and human behavior. Drawing upon decades of research, the authors reveal the behavioral code: the root causes and hidden forces that drive human behavior and our responses to society's laws.The Behavioral Code offers a necessary and different approach to battling crime and injustice that is based in understanding the science of human misconduct - rather than relying on punishment to shape behavior.