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"Written in sync with the progression of the seasons, A Year in Practice is a program of holistic techniques and journaling prompts to nurture the creative seeker all year long. Four seasonally themed chapters keep you connected to natural phases of creative contraction and expansion, from the quiet hibernation of winter to the jubilant and expressive communing of summer. Used regularly, you will move through artistic blocks, deepen your capacity...
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2017.
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xxxi, 299 pages ; 21 cm.
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Examines the link between our attitudes toward money--earning it, spending it, and giving it away--and our feelings of fulfillment, sufficiency, and purpose in our lives. This reissue includes a foreword by Jack Canfield and a new introduction by the author, in which she explores the effects of the Great Recession and environmental concerns about our monetary needs and aims.
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
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140 pages ; 24 cm
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"Te ha pasado que de tanto amar te olvidadas de tus sueños, tu proyecto de vida, tus valores y tus sentimientos más profundos? Estamos acostumbrados a dar en exceso y recibir muy poco o nada en nuestras relaciones de pareja, y lo peor de todo es que lo normalizamos. Nos resignamos a una relación desquilibrada por la creencia de que el verdadero amor no espera nada a cambio, como si la ecuación amorosa solo tuviera un integrante. Para Walter Riso,...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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viii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
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"Most parents are not child psychologists and that's why it can be hard to discern what are normal childhood anxieties and what is more problematic . However, even with childhood anxieties, parents can learn how to raise resilient, independent, and healthy children with the help of licensed clinical psychologist, Regine Galanti, PhD. Galanti offers a research-based, practical guide for parenting through all ages and stages with strategies to help...
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Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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247 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
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"Still" invites readers to take on the philosophy of the Slow movement: Living Sustainable. Local. Organic. And Whole. Our homes are ideally placed to support and promote this philosophy, through everything from the materials we source in construction to how we fit-out and furnish them. The choices we make don't have to be at the expense of creating a space that feels warm and welcoming, though. Instead, it can actually make us feel better about how...
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
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233 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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TusQuets Editores (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
[unio de 2023]
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278 pages : illustration, photographs ; 21 cm
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"México, 1920. Mientras el país sale de la Revolución, una mujer enfrenta una hazaña aún más grandiosa: la conquista de su cuerpo. La poetisa y fotógrafa Cayetana de la Cruz y Schneider está lista para desandar pasos y acepta desnudar su alma ante un periodista que, como todos aquellos que han sido tocados por su obra, está intrigado por conocer las confesiones de esta artista. Pero en el diálogo se cuelan los retazos de un misterioso diario...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2023]
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335 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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285 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
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"Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them...
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Familius
Pub. Date
[2023]
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327 pages ; 24 cm
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"As parents, we want our children to take responsibility for their schoolwork, their chores, and their choices. We want them to grow into independent adults, but when we see them struggling, we sometimes have a tendency to step in and problem-solve, telling them exactly what to do or even doing things for them ourselves. The problem is the more controlling we are with our children, the more out of control they feel. When our children feel out of control,...
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"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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776 pages ; 24 cm
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"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
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Running Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Who helped you become the person you are today? And, have you ever thanked them? Approaching a milestone birthday, Kho decided to send thank-you letters to the many people who had influenced her, helped her, and inspired her over the years: family, friends, mentors, teachers, co-workers, even exes. Her recipients always seemed genuinely pleased to read the letters, but Kho never expected the profound and positive effect the process would have on her....
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help"--
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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322 pages ; 22 cm
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1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan's childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. The trip proves less safe than...
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Ediciones Koan, S.L
Pub. Date
2022.
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124 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
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Una mañana de 2011, Libby DeLana salió de su casa para dar un paseo. Al día siguiente hizo lo mismo. Y al siguiente, también. Desde entonces no lo ha dejado. Paso a paso, lleva recorridos más de cuarenta mil kilómetros, el equivalente a una vuelta al mundo. Un gesto tan sencillo como caminar se ha convertido en un hábito diario que ha cambiado su vida para siempre.
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