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Author
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
What are you afraid of? Being assertive? Looking fat? Getting older? Going broke? Whatever your fear, women everywhere confront the same fears every day. Huffington believes that conquering fear is crucial to living a full life and to making a difference in the world, and in this manifesto, she inspires us to take on the task. Huffington is fearless, but not by nature; she's had to learn to overcome her fears and relies on these hard-won lessons every...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction guide to growing up rooted in radical self-love and body empowerment that answers real questions from kids about health, sex, gender, race, justice, and more"--
4) How to see
Author
Description
"How we develop misperceptions, how we can gain insight, and how mindfulness practices can help us see ourselves, each other, and the world around us more clearly are just a few of the topics touched upon in this latest addition to the Mindfulness Essentials Series. In brief meditations accompanied by whimsical sumi-ink drawings, Thich Nhat Hanh helps us focus on perceptions and challenging situations. How to See is pocket-sized with two color original...
5) How to see
Author
Publisher
Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
"How we develop misperceptions, how we can gain insight, and how mindfulness practices can help us see ourselves, each other, and the world around us more clearly are just a few of the topics touched upon in this latest addition to the Mindfulness Essentials Series. In brief meditations accompanied by whimsical sumi-ink drawings, Thich Nhat Hanh helps us focus on perceptions and challenging situations. How to See is pocket-sized with two color original...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fill your heart with abundance and ease by uniting Tarot with the modern mindfulness movement. Combining the card archetypes and meanings with today's well-researched methods of meditation, this groundbreaking book shows you how to find a clearer path forward through compassion. Mindful Tarot cultivates our capacity to live and love what is unknown and unresolved. It is a practice of patience and openness, encouraging you to embrace the present moment:...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Get answers to your most common questions about mental health and mental illness--including anxiety, depression, bipolar and eating disorders, and more. [This book] walks readers through the most common questions about mental health and the process of getting help--from finding the best therapist to navigating harmful and toxic relationships and everything in between. In the same down-to-earth, friendly tone that makes her videos so popular, licensed...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
208 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated selection of answers to the title's question, submitted online and collected by Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn, collectively known as The Buried Life and featured in the MTV reality television series of the same name. Some answers include essays relating how the online submissions were accomplished. Also included are brief essays on how the four young men accomplished some of their lists' tasks and their experiences...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
This is THE to do list for any adventurous kid who is not afraid to get his or her hands dirty! They always say time flies when you're having fun, maybe that's why your prime kid years seem to sail by in a heartbeat. Are you living it to the fullest? Well, heres an awesome way to find out. In this book you'll find ideas, hints, and tips for things that you can (and should!) do before you're too old to get away with it. Ever snorkeled at a coral beach?...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Let your dog lead the way to adventure! Grab your four-legged best friend and start making the most of every day, and every dog year. In Adventure Dogs author Fern Watt teams up with canine experts to offer more than 50 surprising new ways to strengthen the connection you share with your dog. Captured in vibrant, full-color photography, activities range from simple to epic. What would make your dogs 'bucket list' of must-see and -do adventures? Find...
Author
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the Shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels the globe-from the Amazon Basin to the Far East-to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers understand about the intelligence present in all forms of life. Intelligence in Nature presents overwhelming illustrative evidence...
12) The yawn book
Author
Publisher
Clarion books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (color) ; 26 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why do we yawn? Do animals yawn? And why are yawns so CONTAGIOUS? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fact-filled and funny nonfiction picture book. Why did you yawn before your piano recital? Do you yawn more than your grandmother? And is your pet dog really yawning because you are? Find out in The Yawn Book, a funny and fascinating book of facts, including the most unbelievable one: no one knows for sure why we yawn at all." --...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages : portrait, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys--one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag's journeys are made in search...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 369 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interesting.
Humans are locked in a battle over sex and gender: one side argues that evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool that shouldn't matter at all. Rewriting the science of evolution and sex,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author presents a pro-South perspective on American history, maintaining that the South has always been the center of American culture with a strong emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, and small government.
Author
Publisher
LOM ART
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated book will share the infinite wisdom of flowers, providing inspiration from nature to gain perspective, resilience and live a beautiful life. Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and the chocolate cosmos flower from Mexico, the Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand, the lipstick tree and the giant water lily from South America,...