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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"The author discusses how we should think about conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, which conspiracy theories are likely to be true or false and what criteria we can use to assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous conspiracism and reestablish trust in our democratic institutions, in the media, and in one another"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity. --Publisher.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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“Three Steps to Yes shows you how to sell your ideas or yourself . . . a clear guide for instilling trust and respect.” —BookPage
Everybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to Yes teaches you how to get...
Everybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to Yes teaches you how to get...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand--some by intuition, some by hard-won experience--that there is a science to...
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Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"One of our most private acts, weeping can forge connection. Tears may obscure our vision, but they can also bring great clarity. And in both literature and life, weeping often opens a door to transformation or even resurrection. But many of us have been taught to suppress our emotions and hide our tears. When writer Benjamin Perry realized he hadn't cried in more than ten years, he undertook an experiment: to cry every day. But he didn't anticipate...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York magazine's work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations--featuring all-new advice! There's a reason Alison Green has been called "the Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don't know what to say. Thankfully,...
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Language
English
Description
Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In 18 years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone,...
13) Leave me
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
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Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Includes stories about a woman whose mother, husband, and son suicided, a terminally ill woman's suicide, a little girl whose father put a gun to his head. The stories are heartbreaking, but Surviving Suicide offers hope. Inspiration from those who have been where you are. Simple day-to-day ways to move through your grief. E-mail addresses so you can write to others left behind. Days after her fiance's suicide, award-winning journalist Heather...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Bob Greene explains how a person's mindset might prevent them from losing weight and offers psychological studies, practical tips, and helpful advice to give people the tools they need to overcome psychological obstacles to making healthy food choices.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of several of [Sean Covey's] father's best essays that have never appeared in book form before and aren't well known. But they are vintage Stephen Covey and contain some of his best thinking"--Foreword.
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Series
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns...
19) Breathe in, breathe out: restore your health, reset your mind and find happiness through breathwork
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Stuart Sandeman reveals the hidden power of breathing and how, by changing the way you breathe, you can transform the way you think and feel. Since tragic loss brought him to breath work, Stuart has changed the lives of thousands through his signature sessions. Now he wants the same for you. Whether you want focus or flow, more energy or less anxiety, Stuart can tell you how to get it. Combining modern science and ancient wisdom, he sets out how to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"Draws on history, psychology, and anthropology to discuss how the tribal connection--the instinct to belong to small groups with a clear purpose and common understanding--can satisfy the human quest for meaning and belonging,"--NoveList.
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