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All of us can struggle with difficult conversations, but we’re often not very good at the easy ones either. Though we do it all the time, Harvard professor Alison Wood Brooks argues that conversation is one of the most complex, demanding, and delicate of all human tasks, rife with possibilities for misinterpretation and misunderstanding. And yet conversations can also be a source of great joy…
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- 9780241996829
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- 305 p. ; ill. ; 19, 5 cm
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- 153 WOO t
The overthinking cure: how to free your mind and focus on what really matters
Thinking about life is a normal part of being human; it's helpful to analyze a situation or revisit a problem in your mind, but if you find yourself constantly dwelling on your thoughts - with no sign of a resolution - then it can set you back from living the life you want
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781800963160
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- 344 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm
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- 158 HIB t
Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
egendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work on personal growth, Csikszentmihalyi (…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780061339202
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- 303 p. ; 20 cm
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- 155 CSI f
I wish my teacher knew: how one question can change everything for our kids
One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and s…
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- 9780738219141
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- 272 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- 371 SCH i
The Math of life and death: 7 mathematical principles that shape our lives
In The Math of Life and Death , Yates takes us on a “dizzying, dazzling” ( Nature ) tour of everyday situations and grand-scale applications of mathematical concepts, including exponential growth and decay, optimization, statistics and probability, and number systems. Along the way he reveals the mathematical undersides of controversies over DNA testing, Ponzi schemes, viral marketing, and …
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- 9781982111885
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- 288 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- 510 YAT t
The leader in you: how to win friends, influence people and succeed in a chan…
In The Leader in You, coauthors Stuart R. Levine and Michael A. Crom apply the famed organization's time-tested human relations principles to demonstrate how anyone, regardless of his or her job, can harness creativity and enthusi
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781501181962
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- 245 p. ; 21 cm
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- 158 CAR t
Getting things done: the art of stress-free productivity
Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots. Al…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780143126560
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- 317 p. ; ill. ; 21,5 cm
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- 158 ALL g
The unexpected joy of the ordinary
The everyday is the wall-to-wall humdrum we seek to upgrade, like a fifties carpet we long to replace.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781783256044
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- 262 p. ; 20 cm
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- 158 GRA t
Me vs brain: an overthinker's guide to life
Do you overthink every single aspect of your life? Think the world is looking at you whenever you leave the house? Or suddenly think of the greatest comeback to an argument you had seven years ago?
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781804940310
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- 285 p. ; 20 cm
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- 158 MOR m
My first book of kindness
Explore different ways to show kindness with this fabulous flap book. With tabs to pull, flaps to flip and a dial to spin, learning about kindness can be so much fun for little ones!
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- 9781835090985
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- unpaged ; ill. ; 20 cm
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- A lift-the-flap-book
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- 152 POR m
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