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"Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process."--Amazon.
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"A totally real, genuine, authentic book about why you shouldn't believe any of those words. And it's genuinely good."
- Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom
Exploring a number of trends in our popular culture-from Sarah Palin to Antiques Roadshow, organic food to the indignation over James Frey's memoir-Andrew Potter follows his successful Nation of Rebels with a new book that argues that our pursuit of the authentic is fraught with irony and...
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From the diet you're going to start tomorrow to that call you were about to make when something (anything) else came up-life is full of little lies that get us through the day. With Daily Dishonesty, designer and blogger Lauren Hom pays homage to the (mostly) innocent foibles that make us human. With 150+ hilariously common lies, beautifully illustrated by Hom, Daily Dishonesty touches on topics from breakups, friendship, and growing up to slacking...
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Embrace the transformative journey that awaits within these pages, for it holds the key to unlocking your ultimate potential. Through the profound wisdom shared in this book, you will discover the remarkable ability to master your thoughts and shatter the chains of self-doubt. No longer will failure haunt your mind, for you will wield the power to transform those thoughts into resolute statements of success. Even in the face of adversity, you will...
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Ladies, have you ever felt that you weren't enough?
Not pretty enough…not talented enough…not sexy enough…not mom enough…
The "not-enough wife" is stuck trying to be everything in her life. And no matter how hard she tries, the feeling of not-enough remains. Well, it is time to stop. Looking outside yourself will never solve how you feel about yourself on the inside.
In The Not-Enough Wife, life coach Jolene Winn teaches you how to start...
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What happens when you don't want the same things that everyone around you seems to want? How lonely is a life lived off the traditional path?
In August 2021, after years of grieving a divorce, living in a tiny van, and grappling with pandemic isolation, former hiker Nicole Antoinette set out to walk all 491 miles of the Colorado Trail.
It had been more than two years since her last long-distance hike at that point, and she had no idea if she could...
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The beloved and bestselling "anthropologist of everyday life" turns her witty and insightful gaze to the oddities of living in our modern world Over the course of her time as a contributor and editor for Saturday Night magazine-a span during which she published her award-winning book The Rituals of Dinner-Margaret Visser specialized in thought-provoking columns capable of turning the banal into the extraordinary. From high heels to showers to the...
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What's really behind Americans' persistent belief in alien abductions?
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not...
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In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
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"In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...
11) Business Management & HR Training: Episode 11,Business Management & HR Training The Empathy Muscle
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TMW Media
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2023.
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Empathy is the ability to relate to the thought, emotion, or experience of others. Empathy is a right brain activity that allows you to step into the shoes of another person and understand their feelings and needs. Considering Americans are polarized yet businesses need relationships, it is time we support ourselves and other with compassion and sensitivity. We should be curious about the views and experiences of others. We will learn how important...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
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From fighting on the battlefield to carrying out espionage, robots are making it possible for us to defend ourselves like never before. In this exciting high-tech series, readers will discover how robots are revolutionizing how we defend and protect our world.
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University of Nebraska Press
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[2023]
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"Who Are the Jews ...? tackles perhaps the most urgent question facing the Jewish people today: Given unprecedented denominational tribalism, how can we Jews speak of ourselves in collective terms?"--
"[This book] tackles perhaps the most urgent question facing the Jewish people today: Given unprecedented denominational tribalism, how can we Jews speak of ourselves in collective terms?"--
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"Reimagine Inclusion provides a clear roadmap to all businesses, big and small, on how over the course of a 5 year plan, they can start to see the transformation of their workplaces into inclusive communities by addressing 13 myths about inclusion that dominate the workplace today. Inclusive leaders create inclusive cultures. Inclusion can only start to exist and then thrive when each one of us individually commits to do the work that starts with...
15) Human Footprint
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PBS
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2023.
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Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the globe to explore our impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do. In that way, Human Footprint tackles the biggest story of all – the story of who we really are.
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2024]
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We all have stories inside us--whether or not we consider ourselves "creative." Poet and novelist Joseph Fasano has developed a remarkable tool that allows anyone to experience the joy of creative expression. The fifty simple yet powerful prompts in this book are poems that you complete yourself. By adding just a few words of your own, you create something beautiful and wholly new--that comes from within.
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Penguin Life
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[2024]
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"A paradigm-shifting book looking at the pervasive influence of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to find our voices at home and at work. Having a seat at the table doesn't mean that your voice is actually welcome. Knowing something is wrong doesn't mean it's easy to speak up. In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent. Why speak up if you know that it won't be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?...
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TMW Media
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2023.
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Ninety per cent of the population complain about their life - but do they take responsibility for why their life is the way it is? Do you make things happen, or do things just happen to you? It is common to avoid responsibility, avoid problem-solving, or avoid looking at ourselves in a truthful way. It is all right not to know all the answers - that's what experience is fo. But taking problems head-on will make you more liberated and aware. We will...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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2024.
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"From the author of Something to Live For, a poignant and funny story about a man whose wife disappeared seven years ago and his journey to find her or find out what happened, interwoven with the story of their relationship, revealing how sometimes the biggest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves"--