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Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...
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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be open to change in order to achieve fulfillment and success.
In the course of over twenty years of research, leading motivation and personality psychology expert Carol Dweck has discovered that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk, it actually creates our whole mental world, and explains...
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Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty? In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way-and it's the complete opposite of what everyone else does. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little...
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Getting through to someone is a fine art, indeed, but a critical one nonetheless. Whether you are dealing with a harried colleague, a stressed-out client, or an insecure spouse, things will go from bad to worse if you can't break through emotional barricades and get your message thoroughly communicated and registered.
Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist, business consultant, and coach, author Mark Goulston shares simple but powerful techniques...
6) I don't know what I want, but I know it's not this: a step-by-step guide to finding gratifying work
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"There is an epidemic in this country, one that continues to spread despite fluctuations in the economy. A dishearteningly large number of people dislike what they do for a living. In this revised and updated edition of I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone unhappy with their employment--or lack of--can implement a real and satisfying career transformation. A range of quizzes and personality...
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Gildan Media
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[2014]
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The acclaimed author of Living a Course of Miracles shares an insightful guide to finding perfect happiness through the principles of ACIM.
Although it may require a lifetime of study to grasp, the bestselling A Course in Miracles has inspired millions. Perhaps its most essential lesson of the entire course is 101: the belief that there is no sin and that God's will for us is perfect happiness. Longtime teacher Jon Mundy...
Although it may require a lifetime of study to grasp, the bestselling A Course in Miracles has inspired millions. Perhaps its most essential lesson of the entire course is 101: the belief that there is no sin and that God's will for us is perfect happiness. Longtime teacher Jon Mundy...
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[2011], p2010
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A primer in success-building, The Magic Ladder to Success is Hill's compact distillation of his lifetime of learning.
The Magic Ladder to Success is the volume in which Napoleon Hill first distilled the seventeen factors that make up his -Law of Success- philosophy. These key principles capture the ethics and actions that empower all who harness them to become leaders in the field of their choice. Leaders are not born, Hill argues, they are molded...
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[2010], p2009
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Filled with powerful questions that invite you to listen to your inner voice and tap into the strength you need to create your ideal life, this audiobook makes you the final authority in your own life not outside forces that you can't control.