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Books - Health - Self help
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How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? Why so much of consumer culture is crap? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? If so, this book is for you. Following up his cult bestseller How To Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson takes us on an inspirational journey towards true freedom and happiness. Read How To Be Free and learn how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, moaning, pain, poverty, ugliness, war and waste, and much else besides
Paperback, 352 pp, $24.95. Buy
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Foolsgold by Susan G. Wooldridge
In this personal, inspiring guide to a creative life, Wooldridge shares her own journey of the heart-- from loss and grief to a return to wholeness and joy. Offering poetry exercises, journal writing, and other practices to encourage creative play-- including foraging and assembling collages with found objects-- Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process will motivate you to reevaluate what' s most important in your world. Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity-- DELIGHT AND VITALITY-- whether it' s through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you fr
, 256 pp, $35.95. Buy
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How to Develop Self-confidence by Dale Carnegie
Drawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer, this book will show you how to overcome the natural fear of public speaking, to become a successful speaker and even learn to enjoy it. His invaluable advice includes ways to: develop poise gain self-confidence improve your memory make your meaning clear begin and end a talk effectively interest and charm your audience improve your diction and win an argument without making enemies
Paperback, 256 pp, $24.95. Buy
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Positively Happy by Noel Edmonds
Drawing on his own experiences, the author tells you how to: make your own luck, stay focused when things are getting tough, be positive in a negatively oriented world, play to your strengths, step outside your comfort zone and ultimately develop practical strategies that enable you to get the most out of your life
Paperback, 176 pp, $23.95. Buy
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When No One Understands by Brad E. Sachs
Paperback, 144 pp, $19.95. Buy
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The Art of Being a Woman: A Simple Guide to Everyday Love and Laughter by Veronique Vienne
From the author of The Art of Doing Nothing comes a practical approach to discovering joy in the things of everyday life. The Art of Being a Woman is designed to infuse women's lives with the one thing that they have been missing: unabashed joie de vivre
, 176 pp, $25.95. Buy
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Take a Nap! Change Your Life.: The Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive by Sara Mednick
Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception and enhances your sex life. Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous side effects, and, best of all, is absolutely free. This miracle drug is, in fact, nothing more than the nap: the right nap at the right time. Take a Nap! Change Your Life is a breakthrough program that shows how we can fight the fatigue epidemic - through a custom-designed nap. Assess your tiredness and set up a personal sleep profile. Use the unique Nap Wheel on the cover and interior graphs and charts. Includes a 16-step technique for falling asleep, a six-week napping workbook, and more
Paperback, 141 pp, $18.95. Buy
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This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True by M.J. Ryan
Are you really ready to change? Take this quiz and find out. Every New Year� s Day, my list of resolutions is: Ambitious. I aim for everything from losing weight to saving more money for my retirement. Realistic. I just try to bump my good behavior up a notch--be a better friend, give more money to charity---without giving myself any strict deadlines or goals. Precise. I decide exactly how many men I will ask for a date, or how many new jobs I will apply for. Whenever I decide to change something, it� s usually because: My doctor has put the fear of God into me.True or False: When you want to make a big change in your life, timing is crucial. Failure is: Impossible. Inevitable. Not in my vocabulary. (The answers are on the inside back flap.
, 240 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Peace Book by Todd Parr
Peace is wishing on a star, peace is making new friends, peace is being who you are. With child-like smiling stick figures, bold, brilliant colour and upbeat text, picture-book creator Todd Parr offers different definitions of peace: offering a hug to a friend, keeping the streets clean, and so on. The closing message peace is being who you are is illustrated with Parr's usual multicultural mix of blue, green, brown, yellow and purple faces.Parr's quirky artwork and eternally optimistic books are truly irresistible, for both grown-ups and kids.
Paperback, 32 pp, $14.95. Buy
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How to Be a Child by Christine Langtree
'How to be a Child' is a gentle reminder for all of us to pause and look anew at the world through the eyes of a child. To remember what it felt like to laugh till your sides ached. To run around barefoot. To see, and call things as they really are. To show off just for the sake of doing so.
With pictures from photographer Michael Coyne, 'How to be a Child' is a beautiful and amusing view of the wisdom of children.
Hardback, 96 pp, $19.95. Buy
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Retox for Life by Jennifer Traig
Playing against common wisdom, this book is poised to capitalize on the backlash to the cultural obsession with detoxing, purifying, cleansing, and simplifying. It offers tips on better loving through chemistry. It helps you get back the fun and friends that fell by the wayside on your mind-numbing path to health and well-being
Paperback, 144 pp, $22.95. Buy
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Insecure at Last; Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World by Eve Ensler
� Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.� � Eve Ensler When her stage play "The Vagina Monologues" became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant � protection.� Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid int
, 202 pp, $35.95. Buy
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The Five Things We Cannot Change by David Richo
Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness--and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment. There are certain facts of life that we cannot change--the unavoidable "givens" of human existence: (1) everything changes and ends, (2) things do not always go according to plan, (3) life is not always fair, (4) pain is a part of life, and (5) people are not loving and loyal all the time. Richo shows us that by dropping our deep-seated resistance to these givens, we can find liberation and discover the true richness that
Paperback, 192 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Forever Dad by Keogh Sean
An inspirational collection of life-affirming phrases, sayings, and mantras celebrating fathers and fatherhood. From the words of wisdom of real fathers and their children, submitted by real people and drawing on their experience of fatherhood or of having a dad, here are the thoughts that best sum up the changing face of fatherhood.
Paperback, 128 pp, $14.95. Buy
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The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions Into Great Choices by David M.D. Simon
Hardback, 224 pp, $23.95. Buy
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The Senior Organizer: Personal, Medical, Legal, Financial by Lynn Benson and Debby S. Bitticks
Paperback, 220 pp, $23.95. Buy
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The Passion Principle: Discover Your Passion Signature and the Secrets to Deeper Relationships in Life, Love and Work by Donna Leblanc
Not all people operate the same way in relationships-that's why Donna LeBlanc takes an innovative approach by showing us how to find our passion signature. A passion signature is the style in which you express passion and seek fulfillment. By understanding your own signature� or style in relationships� you can make them even better.
Donna defines a passion signature as how we innately interact with others and show our true passion. There are five different categories of passion signatures:
The Lover/Vamp.
The Creator/Savior.
The Warrior/Conqueror.
The Visionary/Perfectionist.
The Prophet/Escapist.
The Passion Principle� helps us figure out which category we fit into and then leads us through a step-by-step program on how to unl
Paperback, 289 pp, $18.95. Buy
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Always in the Kitchen at Parties
Relationships author of 'How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You', Leil Lowdnes, has written this empowering book that aims to help anybody who lacks self-confidence or is held back by shyness. If you're the kind of person who wants to hide in the kitchen at parties, Leil will help you get out and mingle like a pro.
Paperback, 288 pp, $27.99. Buy
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Why Your Life Sucks by Alan H. Cohen
A self-help guide offers a step-by-step approach to self-empowerment, explaining how to stop settling for less, find the help one needs, learn to say no, end behaviors which starve the soul, and start enjoying life
Paperback, 224 pp, $20.95. Buy
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You Can Heal Yourself by Seka Nikolic and Sarah Tay
In this ground-breaking book Seka Nikolic explains the principles of bio-energy and describes how the body's energy field can by thrown out of balance by negative emotions like stress or fear, by the impact of other people's energy levels and by geopathic stress. The result of this imbalance is illness and disease. Drawing on Seka's twenty-five years of experience, the book mixes case studies with practical advice that enables the reader to recognise the problems that can lead to ill-health and learn how to manage their energy to protect themselves and start the self-healing process.
Paperback, 256 pp, $32.95. Buy
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