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1041) The Waste Makers
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An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life-the development of consumption for...
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Meg is a lantern guiding women through the twists and turns along this pain-filled path.--Lynn Marie Cherry, speaker and author of Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After BetrayalMeg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed to years of sexual addiction. She has intimate knowledge of the devastation that follows--and she has come through the other side.In her groundbreaking Hope After Betrayal, Meg provides reassuring...
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A proven-effective CBT approach to help you break the cycle of repetitive negative thinking
If you suffer from anxiety or depression, chances are you also experience unwanted, distressing, and repetitive thoughts. These negative thoughts are often grounded in anger, guilt, shame, worry, humiliation, resentment, or regret. And the more you try to gain control over these thoughts, the more they seem to spiral out of your control. So, how can you break...
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The SMART way to set objectives
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the SMART criteria, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the 5 criteria that make up the SMART method (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Bound)
• Follow the steps and ask the right questions in order to always set objectives that are achievable
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A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.
As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands that we must slow down the economy by transforming...
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Ending compulsive sexual behavior is just the beginning. Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with broken heartedness. He offers strategies to cultivate sustainable sexual sobriety, sharing his own healing narrative, as well as those of others who've chosen to bear their...
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Partners experience dire consequences as a result of being in a relationship with someone suffering from compulsive sexual behavior. Their emotional well-being requires developing new skill sets for self-care and self-protection as they confront the difficult and painful process of discovery, disclosure, and beyond. In other words-they need boundaries. This is the first book specifically for partners affected by addictive behavior that addresses,...
1048) Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups
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A groundbreaking, comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable groups of all sizes-from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations. Whether you work in business or schools, volunteer in neighborhoods or church organizations, or are involved in social justice and activism, you understand the enormous power of groups to enact powerful and lasting change in the world. But how exactly do you design, build, and...
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Real Hope, True Freedom covers a wide variety of topics on sex addiction and the process of recovery. It addresses the different manifestations of sex addiction, how sex addiction impacts the brain, sex addiction risk factors, when sex addiction co-occurs with other mental health disorders, barriers to getting help/treatment, information and resources specific to the needs of the partners of sex addicts, the process of treatment, the process of recovery...
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The must-read summary of Lee Lefever's book: "The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products and Services Easier to Understand".
This complete summary of the ideas from Lee Lefever's book "The Art of Explanation" shows that the key to successfully selling products and services is ensuring that they are easy to understand for customers. This summary highlights the three-part process you need to master in order to create great explanations that...
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In Search of a Salve is the written personification of what it means to stare the truth of yourself in the mirror and accept it wholeheartedly. In stories tender and raw, K E Garland invites listeners on the journey of her life as she discovers herself, her sexuality, and subsequent sex addiction.
No topic is too taboo or off limits, from the sexual assaults she suffered as a child to the exhibitionism displayed and multiple abortions she had as an...
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Everardo es psicólogo egresado de la Universidad de Guadalajara, con maestría en psicología laboral de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. Es Diplomado en Docencia Universitaria y tiene experiencia como psicoterapeuta desde el año 1992. Es fundador de la Clínica Psicológica VenSer, ubicada en Guadalajara, México, donde desde al año 2000 está ayudando a realizar los sueños de miles de personas de todo el mundo que quieren voluntariamente...
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If you're stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.
Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you're co-located, the "mute" and "stop...
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POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. Publié en 1788, le Traité du fouet et de ses effets sur le physique de l'amour est-il un ouvrage libertin déguisé ou un vrai traité médico-philosophique? Si les divers effets de la flagellation sur l'éveil ou le réveil du désir y sont traités, l'auteur étaie ses constatations médicales de tous les exemples, anciens et nouveaux, qu'il peut trouver dans l'histoire et dans la chronique. De l'aphrodisiaque externe, il...
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Heather A. Haveman is professor of sociology and business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Magazines and the Making of America (Princeton).
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved
Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely...
1056) The Mind of a Bee
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Sciences" Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London. He is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination.
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees
Most of us are aware of the hive mind-the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka...
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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including...
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Multiple affairs, compulsive pornography, prostitutes, and voyeurism-no matter their "drug" of choice, men who act out sexually leave their partners reeling in fear, rage, shame, and isolation. But there is hope. Bestselling author Claudia Black's revised edition of her classic work Deceived offers women in relationships plagued by sexual betrayal the validation and guidance to create a new path of clarity, direction, and confidence. Dr. Black uses...
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This complete summary of the ideas in Todd Henry's book "Louder than Words" explains that it is now much easier to build an audience and reach a wide range of people thanks to social media. However, it is also increasingly important to find a way to stand out from the crowd. To do this, the author highlights that you must find your authentic voice to project your ideas while staying true to your values. This summary will teach you how to make your...
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We simply have too much stuff in our lives. Burdened by our heavy consumerist culture to continually own and consume without purpose, we lose ourselves to debt, dissatisfaction, and despair. If having more, doing more, and being more does not allow us to live abundantly, what can?
Minimalism can make all the difference. A minimalist life removes non-essentials and clutter-whether it's physical clutter in your home or a cluttered mental state that...
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