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Series: Our Auntie RosaThe Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and LessonsPaperbackSheila McCauley Keys9781101983201$20.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 26, 2016
Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero—"the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother figure to them as well. Her brave act on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, was just one moment in a life lived with great humility and decency. After the deaths of Rosa Parks's husband and brother, her nieces and nephews became her only family and t... + Read More
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Series: The Positive Parent SeriesPositive ParentingAn Essential GuidePaperbackRebecca Eanes9780143109228$20.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jun 07, 2016
"This is a must-read for every family that yearns to create peace and harmony.”--Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious ParentTired of yelling and nagging? True family connection is possible--and this essential guide shows us how.Popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes believes that parenting advice should be about more than just getting kids to behave. Struggling to maintain a meaningful connection with her two little ones and frustrated by the lack of emotionally aware books for parents, she began to share ... + Read More
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Series: Finding Calm for the Expectant MomTools for Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Mood Swings During Your PregnancyPaperbackAlice D. Domar9780399173134$23.00HEALTH & FITNESS Aug 30, 2016
This invaluable resource shows moms-to-be how to manage stress during pregnancy.Pregnancy is exciting and exhilarating, but it can also be physically and psychologically demanding. The myth, perpetuated by social media, says that you should be “glowing,” but in reality, you may be anxious and find yourself on an emotional roller coaster. And that is okay. Feeling stressed and moody are very normal reactions to the changes your body is going through, the thoughts you might have about how your pregnancy will impact your career and relationships, ... + Read More
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Series: Forgotten Ways for Modern DaysKitchen Cures and Household Lore for a Natural Home and GardenHardcoverRachelle Blondel9780143110583$35.00HOUSE & HOME Jun 07, 2016
A beautifully designed guide to natural beauty products, home cleaners, health remedies, and other household tips inspired by the techniques of our ancestors.Using ingredients from your kitchen cupboards, garden, and vegetable patch (or your local supermarket), Forgotten Ways for Modern Days draws on the wisdom of homemakers, gardeners, and crafters of the past, introducing their knowledge and time-tested tips. From brightening your whites by putting eggshells in your washing to making beeswax furniture polish to herbal hair rinses, Rachelle Bl... + Read More
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Series: The Little Book of Healthy BeautySimple Daily Habits to Get You GlowingPaperbackDr. Pina LoGiudice9780399176937$20.00HEALTH & FITNESS Jul 12, 2016
As seen on Dr. Oz, a revolutionary, naturopathic plan that enhances beauty, improves health, and reverses aging, Dr. Pina's powerful program is guaranteed to make you glow from the inside out.The philosophy of naturopathic medicine is to use the most natural methods to achieve optimal health and beauty. People who follow this philosophy have a "glow"--an almost indescribable radiance, beauty, and energetic vitality. Dr. Pina's holistic wisdom blends practices from naturopaths, scientists, and Chinese medicine and is informed by medical research... + Read More
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Series: Profit from HappinessThe Unity of Wealth, Work, and Personal FulfillmentPaperbackJake Ducey9780399183898$20.00SELF-HELP Jun 07, 2016
Jake Ducey shows readers that the secret to prosperity and fulfillment at work and at home is to connect more deeply with those around you.Imagine doubling your income, without doubling your work hours. Imagine a world where everyone woke up happy, excited for work, and went home fulfilled. Imagine you could not stop smiling because you constantly felt so good about your professional and personal life. Most people believe that the best way to make more money is to work harder than ever and, as a result, they compromise their relationships, happ... + Read More
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Series: I Am Here NowA Creative Mindfulness Guide and JournalPaperbackThe Mindfulness Project9780399184444$22.00BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jun 21, 2016
Mindfulness is the simple and powerful practice of training your attention. It's simple in that it's just about paying attention to what's happening here and now, and powerful because it can keep you from getting lost in thoughts about the future or past, which often generate more stress on top of the real pressures of everyday life.While learning to live in the moment, the joyful mindfulness exercises, meditations, coloring pages, and habit-breakers in this beautifully designed and illustrated book will challenge your powers of observation, in... + Read More
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Series: Whose Mind Is It Anyway?Get Out of Your Head and Into Your LifePaperbackLisa Esile9781101982631$22.00SELF-HELP Jun 07, 2016
A sympathetic illustrated guide to learning to live with your mind--even when it tries to trick you.Most of us spend our lives trailing after our minds, allowing our brains to take us in directions that are safe and secure, controlled and conformed. Your mind doesn't want you to take that new job, sign up for that pottery class, or ask someone out. It wants you to stay unemployed, unfulfilled, and single because it enjoys routine and is resistant to change, no matter how positive the change may be. But more often than not, that's not what you w... + Read More
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Series: The Positivity KitInstant Happiness on Every PagePaperbackLisa Currie9780399175978$20.00SELF-HELP Jun 07, 2016
Brimming with engaging prompts that focus on the good things in life, this interactive book is guaranteed to cheer up even the grumpiest person on the rainiest day. Prompts include: Draw your dream home. Make a grateful list. Compile the perfect playlist. Draw yourself a tattoo (on paper!). List 30 great ways to spend a free hour. Write a thank you note to a stranger.Fans of Wreck This Journal, 1 Page at a Time, Start Where You Are, and other creative journals will find inspiration and fun on every page.
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Series: WAVEA Journey Through the Sea of Imagination for the Adventurous ColoristPaperbackShantell Martin9780143109617$20.00ART May 17, 2016
WAVE is not your average coloring book. Once opened, it unfolds into a nine-foot-long panel, featuring a continuous and dream-like illustration by rock star contemporary artist Shantell Martin. And this unique book also provides a blank canvas: After you add your splash of color, use the reverse side to create your own unfolding illustration, for a final product that’s both inspired and inspiring. WAVE will bring the art gallery to your living room, a perfect display piece and an opportunity for daring colorists to transform a piece of art... + Read More
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Series: How God Became GodWhat Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the BiblePaperbackRichard M. Smoley9780399185557$25.00RELIGION Jun 07, 2016
This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly sacred.From a historical perspective, the Bible is shockingly, provably wrong--a point supported by today's best archaeological and historical scholarship but not well understood by (or communicated to) the public. Yet this emphatically does not mean ... + Read More
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Series: The Fangirl LifeA Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to DealPaperbackKathleen Smith9781101983690$22.00SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 05, 2016
Are You a Fangirl? • Do you survive boring classes or meetings by imagining your favorite TV couple making out? • Have you posted a lengthy diatribe on the Internet defending a fictional character? • Have you gotten carsick from reading fan fiction on your smartphone? • Has Netflix presented you with the “Are you still watching?” button at least once? If you answered yes, you are a fangirl. (But you already knew that!)Fangirling is more than a hobby; it’s a way of life for an enormous community. As a fangirl, yo... + Read More
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Series: Seagan EatingThe Lure of a Healthy, Sustainable Seafood + Vegan DietPaperbackAmy Cramer9780399176944$20.00COOKING Jul 05, 2016
A cheat sheet for vegans who want to stray the healthy wayPeople choose to become vegan for different reasons, but for some it's tough to stick to such a strict diet. Seagan Eating offers a healthy alternative by motivating you to adopt a "seagan" diet--largely plant-based but including seafood. At the same time, the book discourages "evil" ingredients and addresses many of today's food conundrums (GMOs, organic versus nonorganic, etc.). A recipe section features easy-to-make fish dishes, plus some of Amy's most decadent vegan recipes. As with ... + Read More
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Series: The Four QuestionsFor Henny Penny and Anybody with Stressful ThoughtsHardcoverByron Katie9780399174247$22.00SELF-HELP Jul 12, 2016
Bestselling author Byron Katie and accomplished, award-winning illustrator Hans Wilhelm team up for a modern retelling of the classic folk tale The Sky Is Falling—reimagined through the lens of Byron Katie's world-famous philosophy for living known as "The Work." Written for adults and children alike, in the form of a full-color, illustrated book, the wisdom contained in this beautiful work can have a profound effect on readers young and old.
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Series: Dharma ParentingUnderstand Your Child's Brilliant Brain for Greater Happiness, Health, Success, and FulfillmentPaperbackRobert Keith Wallace9780399185007$24.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 02, 2016
Two renowned neuroscientists and pioneers in documenting the benefits of Transcendental Meditation give parents a guided tour of their children's brains through contemporary science and ancient Ayurvedic typology (parents can "type" their kids and themselves) for a wealth of methods and insights to maximize your child's learning and behavioral style.Dharma Parenting offers a uniquely individual approach to raising a happy and successful child. The word "dharma" means a way of living that upholds the path of evolution, maintains balance, and sup... + Read More
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Series: What Great Parents Do75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who ThrivePaperbackErica Reischer9780399176692$22.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 16, 2016
A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults.What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parenting today into bite-size pieces with real examp... + Read More
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Series: How to Be YouStop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your LifePaperbackJeffrey Marsh9780143110125$22.00SELF-HELP Aug 02, 2016
Too short. Too weird. Too quiet. Not true. Let Internet superstar Jeffrey Marsh help you end those negative thoughts and discover how wonderful you are. An interactive experience, How to Be You invites you to make the book your own through activities such as coloring in charts, answering questions about how you do the things you do, and discovering patterns in your lives that may be holding you back. Through Jeffrey's own story of "growing up fabulous in a small farming town"--along with the stories of hero/ines who have transcended the ster... + Read More
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Series: This Life Is JoyDiscovering the Spiritual Laws to Live More Powerfully, Lovingly, and HappilyPaperbackRoger Teel9780399174957$23.00RELIGION Aug 30, 2016
A simple, fun instruction manual for living a more joy-filled, authentic life!By one of the most admired spiritual teachers in the country, this book shows us how every moment, every experience, and every person can be an opening for our soul--to greater understanding, more peace and joy, and an overwhelming experience of love. Divided into three easy-to-use parts, this book will:- Tell a fable that puts our spiritual journey into context. - Discuss the seven spiritual principles that are universal to all of the world's wisdom traditions, becom... + Read More
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Series: The Me, Me, Me EpidemicA Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Capable, Grateful Kids in an Over-Entitled WorldPaperbackAmy McCready9780399184864$22.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 16, 2016
Cure your kids of the entitlement epidemic so they develop happier, more productive attitudes that will carry them into a successful adulthood. Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks, there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers posting selfies across all forms of social media, and adult children living off their parents. ... + Read More
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Series: Raising Can-Do KidsGiving Children the Tools to Thrive in a Fast-Changing WorldPaperbackRichard Rende PhD9780399168970$22.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 02, 2016
Advice for raising resourceful, resilient, and responsible children--based on the latest child development research. “Success” is a popular buzzword in discussions about children. But instead of prescribing what success looks like for kids, we should be making sure that they develop the skills they will need to become “doers”—people who proactively seek out what they want in life. Raising Can-Do Kids offers parents hands-on, proven ways to raise kids who embrace the uncertain and challenging adventure that is growing up.
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Series: The Type B ManagerLeading Successfully in a Type A WorldPaperbackVictor Lipman9780735205444$20.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 02, 2025
A guide showing managers how the unexpected strengths of different personality types can boost employee engagement and productivity.While management has long been considered the realm of Type A individuals—hard-driving, competitive high achievers—all too often these high-intensity traits aren’t effective when it comes to motivating employees. Many characteristics of Type B individuals—being more relaxed, less competitive, more reflective, slower to anger—can be considered “people skills” that better influence motivation and productivity.In a bu... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the RobotThe Life and Work of Colin WilsonPaperbackGary Lachman9780399173080$35.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2016
Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood intellects of the past century.You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this rediscovery of the life and work of writer, rebel, and social experimenter Colin Wilson (1931-2013).Author of the classic The Outsider, Wilson, across his 118 books, purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him one of the least understood and most important v... + Read More
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Series: Tarcher Cornerstone EditionsThe OutsiderPaperbackColin Wilson9780399173103$22.00PHILOSOPHY Aug 30, 2016
Colin Wilson’s classic exploration of the rebel as genius, with a new introduction by Gary Lachman.When the upstart English writer Colin Wilson debuted on the literary scene with The Outsider in 1956, it marked one of the opening notes of the cultural revolution of the sixties. Wilson celebrated the misfit not as a figure be “fixed” and reintegrated into society, but as a lone journeyer who often had a stirring artistic, political, or spiritual innovation to convey to society.Wilson lived this book as much as wrote it. As an impoverished 23-yea... + Read More
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Series: The Secret DoctrinePaperbackH.P. Blavatsky9780143110156$42.00BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Oct 25, 2016
Complete and unabridged, here is the unparalleled landmark of occult philosophy and lost history that reshaped the modern spiritual mindset and continues to fascinate readers today.There is perhaps no greater enigma in modern Western literature than The Secret Doctrine. The controversial Russian noblewoman Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky told the world that the book restored humanity's lost history and destiny. Its insights, she said, had been gleaned from long-secret books of wisdom and her tutelage under mahatmas, or great souls: adepts from... + Read More
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