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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Messiness adds benefits to our lives, so why do we resist the concept so? Harford uses research from neuroscience, psychology and social science to explain why disorder, confusion, and disarray are actually what lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other. He shows that the human inclination for tidiness can mask a deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Arnold's ... success happened as part of a process: as the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice,...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God's enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories...we'd all walk around slack-jawed"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void," she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"A masterpiece of warrior wisdom that shows how to overcome obstacles with positive action. The best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offers a self-help book unlike any other. Two years ago, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn't seen in a decade. Drew Sheets had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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From the acclaimed author of The Magdalen Girls and The Taster comes a powerful, unforgettable novel of strength and resilience, set against the backdrop of the Irish famine.
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House...
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House...
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Publisher
Avery an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who rise to these challenges and those who get derailed?...
8) The squish
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Meet Sandcastle. Sandcastle's world was new and exciting until their very first--SQUISH! In an effort to protect themselves from ever getting squished again, Sandcastle tries to be bigger and taller and stronger. But is that enough to stop all the squishes? From Breanna Carzoo ... comes an uplifting picture book story that reminds us that while we can't stop all of life's squishes, we can reach out to others, reconnect with our ingrained resilience,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances-from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter. Dr. Alex Jadad is the creator of the Jadad scale, a methodology to assess the quality of clinical trials that has become the most widely used in the world, and Tamen Jadad-Garcia is a health entrepreneur and philosopher-they combine their expertise to uncover the shaky foundations...
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Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
¿Cómo podemos potenciar la resiliencia, la compasión y la creatividad esenciales en nuestros hijos? Tras vender más de 350.000 ejemplares en Estados Unidos de El cerebro del niño, y permanecer, cinco años después de su primera edición, en un lugar destacado en la lista deparentingde The New York Times, Siegel y Bryson nos brindan en esta ocasión una serie de instrucciones, consejos y actividades para «resetear» el cerebro en desarrollo...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan--something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and rising star in Republican politics.
In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's...
In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's...
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Publisher
Sirio Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
La agilidad emocional es un enfoque revolucionario, con base cientifica, que nos permite navegar las tempestades y giros de la vida con autoaceptacion, claridad de vision y mente abierta. La clave del exito no esta en nuestra inteligencia, creatividad o personalidad, sino en como manejamos nuestro mundo interior: nuestros pensamientos, sentimientos, la charla interna. Como respondemos a esas experiencias internas, determina nuestras acciones, vida...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Timeless lessons about the things that stay the same in a world that never stops changing"--
Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. "Same as Ever" reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity,...
18) Ode to a nobody
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.
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Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival. When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
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