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Publisher
Salt Desert Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With a Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, this is an extraordinary collection of personal mantras by people over the age of 75 regarding what makes them productive and effective in old age. The post-pandemic world needs the productivity of the over-75s, who also want to be fulfilled beyond the age of 75.Would you like to be positive, productive, and graceful in your old age? If so, Mantras for Positive Ageing is for you.The first section has...
Author
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief provides practitioners and students alike with tools to better understand grief and its impact on the human-animal bond. Veterinary team members will also learn how to navigate their own mix of emotions as they themselves experience and process recurrent grief that can contribute to compassion fatigue and burnout.
Author
Publisher
G&D Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Claude Bristol's tough-minded, hard-hitting message remains as fresh and focused today as when his books were first published, when the subconscious mind was less understood. Times have changed since the late 1940s, but ambitions have not, and millions of Americans have drawn on the no-nonsense techniques described in The Magic of Believing to reach their dreams and achieve success. Obstacles have become a thing of the past, when they were "blasted"...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Back pain is the one of the world' s greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. One in 10 people will develop chronic back pain. And rates are growing.A multi-billion dollar industry exists that claims it can fix back pain -- by shrinking discs, melting nerves, cutting spines up and putting them back together. Yet leading experts...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In How Math Explains the World , mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who discerned some of the most fundamental aspects of our universe. From their successes and failures, delusions, and even duels, the trajectories of their...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete picture of the impact of the murders, the authors spoke to...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Good People Are Bad At Relationships One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a call with a phone-in-therapist who told him to "journal his feelings," Matthew Fray started a blog attempting to piece together the story of how his ex-wife went from the 18-year-old college freshman who adored him to the angry woman who thought he was an asshole before she left him to have sex with someone else. It turned out that even though he was...
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Language
English
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"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue, “10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018” * Harper’s Bazaar, “10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018” * Elle, “21 Books We’re Most Excited to Read in 2018” * Boston Globe,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen....
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nicole Avant--diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker--grew up surrounded by some of the most extraordinary artists of our time: Bill Withers, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier. Her parents--entertainment mogul, Clarence Avant, and legendary philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant--turned their home into a place of refuge and inspiration for a generation of geniuses. Nicole drew on that magical upbringing to create a stellar career in the music business,...
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