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59 seconds : think a little change a lot
Richard Wiseman.
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320 p. ; 19 cm.
A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community. Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy. From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of "rapid change" and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: "Think a little, change a lot."
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About a mountain
John D'Agata.
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236 p. ; 22 cm.
From one of the most significant U.S. writers (David Foster Wallace) comes an investigation of the federal government's plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas.
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Active baby, healthy brain : 135 fun exercises and activities to maximize your child's brain development from birth through age 5 1/2
Margaret Sassé ; illustrations by Georges McKail ; foreword by Frances Page Glascoe.
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160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Movement, play, and active exploration in the first five years of a child's life are essential to the development of his or her body and brain. Now Active Baby, Healthy Brain presents 135 massages, exercises, and activities that engage your child's love of play while also stimulating his or her brain development in multiple areas, including:
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The Adderall diaries : a memoir of moods, masochism, and murder
Stephen Elliott.
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208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, "The Adderall Diaries" is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Elliott presents a riveting journey through a landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex.
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Alastair Sawday's special places to stay, Paris
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160 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 17 cm.
'Unique, impressive and often breathtaking accommodation . . .' The Real Travel Magazine bull; bull;Special B&B's, apartments, hotels, townhouses, and restored farmhouses on the edge of the city are all gathered in this guide bull;Staying in Paris does not have to break the bank. We've found plenty of places with rooms for under €100 per night bull;Sawday's Paris Hotels guide sold over 80,000 copies and this guide has also been complied with all the insider knowledge of a local bull;We have pioneered sustainability in publishing and woven it into the fabric of everything we do
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All my patients have tales : favorite stories from a vet's practice
Jeff Wells ; [illustrations by June Camerer].
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ix, 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
All My Patients Have Talesis a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so “domestic” animals. Wells begins his work as an inexperienced recent college grad and emerges a caring and beloved veterinarian. Affording the reader an inside glimpse into his daily life, he narrates many uplifting, life-altering, lifethreatening, and hilarious episodes.
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American Heart Association complete guide to women's heart health : the Go Red for Women way to long life and vitality
American Heart Association.
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xiv, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
Draws on American Heart Association guidelines to explain how women can minimize their chances for developing heart disease by controlling risk factors, eating nutritiously and exercising.
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American victory : wrestling, dreams, and a journey toward home
Henry Cejudo with Bill Plaschke.
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229 p., [8] p. of plates: col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Henry Cejudo's remarkable journey follows an unlikely hero from the mean streets of South Central L.A. to the glory of the Beijing Olympics. Henry's grit, passion, and resolve on display in China was a culmination of a life spent fighting--both on and off the mat.
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American voyeur : dispatches from the far reaches of modern life
Benoit Denizet-Lewis.
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xxii, 295 p. ; 22 cm.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American society inAmerican Voyeur.Denizet-Lewis made news with hisNew York Times Magazinecover story "Double Lives on the Down Low," included here, which ignited a firestorm by revealing a subculture of African-American men who have sex with other men but who don't consider themselves gay. InAmerican Voyeur, he also takes us inside a summer camp for pro-life teenagers, a New Hampshire town where two young brothers committed suicide, a social group for lipstick lesbians, a middle school where a girl secretly lives as a boy, a college where fraternity boys face the daunting prospect of sobriety, a state where legally married young gay men are turning out to be more like their parents than anyone might have suspected, a high school where dating has been replaced by "hooking up," and other intersections of youth culture and sexuality. Peer behind the curtain of modern American life with this remarkable collection.
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Americans in Paris : life and death under Nazi occupation
Charles Glass.
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xvi, 524 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 25 cm.
Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. A moving and deeply thought-provoking book.--"Sunday Telegraph."
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Angry fat girls : 5 women, 500 pounds and a year of losing it-- again
Frances Kuffel.
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xxxii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
A funny, painfully honest memoir about five women as they diet and eat, lose and gain, and struggle to find their individual definition of freedom along the way
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Anticancer : a new way of life
David Servan-Schreiber.
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274 p., [16] p. of col. plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
The New York Times and international bestseller-now updated with the latest research Anticancer has been a bestselling phenomenon since Viking first published it in fall 2008. Now, a new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition of Anticancer includes: The latest research on anticancer foods, including new alternatives to sugar and cautions about some that are now on the market. New information about how vitamin D strengthens the immune system. Warnings about common food contaminants that have recently been proven to contribute to cancer progression. A new chapter on mind-body approaches to stress reduction, with recent studies that show how our reactions to stress can interfere with natural defenses and how friendships can support healing in ways never before understood. A groundbreaking study showing that lifestyle modification, as originally proposed in Anticancer, reduces mortality for breast cancer by an astounding 68 percent after completion of treatment. New supporting evidence for the entire Anticancer program.
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