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[2022]
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xii, 274 pages ; 23 cm
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If you feel like success is for others, that only certain people get to have their dreams fulfilled, Eric Thomas's You Owe You is your wake-up call. His urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and take control of your life is one he wishes someone had given him when he was a teenager -- lost, homeless, failing in school, and dealing with the challenges of being a young Black man in America. Once he was able to break free from thinking...
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[2023]
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290 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...
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2024.
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xxi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Alice Haddon, psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life. In these warm, welcoming pages, you will meet women of different cultural backgrounds and ages who successfully picked themselves back up to become more confident than ever through the work that Alice and Ruth are doing at the Heartbreak...
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[2024]
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xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand--some by intuition, some by hard-won experience--that there is a science to...
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"There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events--and treatments--can affect people in such different ways. Nord explains how our brain constructs our sense of mental health--actively striving to maintain balance in response to our changing circumstances....
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Get the Summary of Marianne Williamson's A Course In Weight Loss in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Course In Weight Loss" by Marianne Williamson offers a spiritual and psychological approach to weight loss, emphasizing the importance of love and divine guidance in overcoming the cycle of overeating and self-sabotage. The book suggests that excess weight serves as a protective barrier, constructed from fear,...
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Kate creció bajo la presión de ser una periodista de éxito y la mujer perfecta, pero llega a la madurez sintiéndose una absoluta fracasada. Es una persona con un talento especial, pero el miedo la paraliza. Una casualidad del destino le brindará la oportunidad de conocer a un personaje fascinante capaz de cambiarle la vida: el pescador de luz.
Una fábula exquisita que hace tambalear las falsas categorías del triunfo y el fracaso. Conociendo...
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Ella se llama Luna. El pequeño, que ya no lo es tanto, es Félix. Ariel es el abuelo, sentado, duermevela, en su butaca acolchada. Luna se da cuenta de que en su casa nadie escucha. No tiene nada bajo control. En ese preciso instante, encuentra bajo la puerta la nota de un vecino que desencadenará la correspondencia más importante de su vida.
Mireia Darder nos presenta esta fábula de Nora Shen sobre los miedos y los complejos que nos afectan día...
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This book covers all the essentials of Human Motivation. Through the book the Author shares the knowledge he gained in research and teaching, motivating people to greater heights of achievements and fulfilment. Initial Chapters deal with the process of motivation and its importance. Some theories on motivation, barriers to motivation, concepts of motivation in personal life, the importance of goal setting and the need to sustain drive are dealt...
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Sometimes the answer isn't to be the rock in the river, letting the water wash over you. Sometimes the answer is to be the leaf, floating down the stream and rolling with the constant change that is life.
Won't Stop Moving is designed to help you remember the lessons that you have forgotten to remember. This book gives you the opportunity to remind yourself of what you already know, deep in your soul. You can't stop moving, and you won't stop moving,...
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Eres tu peor enemigo y aún no lo sabes', es una invitación a un viaje transformador hacia el autoconocimiento y el empoderamiento. ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué, a pesar de tus mejores intenciones, pareces dar un paso atrás por cada dos pasos adelante? Este libro desentraña los misterios del autosabotaje, revelando cómo patrones ocultos de pensamiento y comportamiento pueden socavar tus esfuerzos más sinceros. Con una mezcla de ciencia...
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Quick fixes don't work. Where do you get honest information that works and can hold them in good stead for their whole life, and which they can pass onto everyone else in their life and around the globe? This book offers them this. It is generational change that is required. You start from the ground up.
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About the Book In the world today, many young adults struggle to become successful in the military. With Robert Eugene Van Harvey's insight and years of experience in the military, a new generation of recruits can learn the finer details of success through the ranks. Like others, he was on the fast track to success, when an injury required him to retire from the military. For high-school-age young adults, Harvey begins with what you can do now to...
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Get the Summary of Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living What Only Adversity Can Teach You in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You" by Phil Stutz explores the fallacy of a perfect, pain-free existence and the importance of embracing life's inherent challenges. The book argues that life's adversities are not obstacles but opportunities for personal growth and spiritual...
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Get the Summary of Anthony de Mello & SJ and J. Francis Stroud's Awareness in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Awareness" by Anthony de Mello is a profound exploration of spirituality as a journey of awakening to the beauty and splendor inherent in existence. De Mello challenges individuals to confront their resistance to change and happiness, emphasizing that true love and joy are not found in mutual sacrifices...
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A sus cuarenta y un años, tras su separación, Jordi ha tenido que volver a vivir con sus padres. El día de su santo, su madre se acerca a la nueva librería del barrio para comprar-le un libro que lo anime. Cuando Ana, la librera, recibe la misión de encontrar una lectura para alguien «a quien no le gusta leer» se sorprende, pero acepta el reto.
Ana será, en este caso, el «caballero» que liberará a Jordi de las garras de un monstruo temible:...
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Aparentemente todo va bien en casa de Hikaru, como nos parecería en la mayoría de nuestros hogares. Pero cuando el profesor llame a sus padres, estos descubrirán que el chico en realidad está distante y bajando su rendimiento, y que lo único que le interesa es conectarse a internet. Todos se darán cuenta entonces de su responsabilidad en la situación.
Sin embargo, la situación en casa no empezará a mejorar hasta que Hikaru conozca a la señora...
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Get the Summary of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck explores the challenges of life, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and the dangers of simplistic thought. Peck highlights societal issues such as prejudice, religious intolerance, and the lack of introspection, which can lead to a decline in spiritual and moral values....
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Get the Summary of Dave Pelzer's The Lost Boy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Lost Boy" recounts the harrowing childhood of Dave Pelzer, who suffered severe abuse at the hands of his mother in Daly City, California, during the 1970s. At nine years old, Dave is subjected to starvation, beatings, and psychological torture, with his alcoholic father unable to protect him. Dave's school offers no respite, as...
20) La corona de las seis piedras: Seis claves para afrontar con fortaleza cualquier reto de la vida
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Naxen es hija de una gran familia y está a punto de asumir unas responsabilidades que le dan tanto miedo que la paralizan. Ella lo que querría es seguir construyéndose el mundo a su ritmo; un mundo en el que la imaginación impere sobre tradiciones ancestrales ante las cuales siente vértigo.
En una de sus escapadas de la rutina familiar, Naxen se esconde en el caparazón abandonado de una tortuga gigante, y allí encontrará un ser extraordinario...
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