Barbara Kipfer: 18 books
Word Nerd
More than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Are You a Word Nerd?
Did you know...
--Only a human (not an animal or thing) is "able" to do something
--The five on dice is called cinque
--"K" for strike-out in baseball comes from the last letter of "struck"
--To skice is to frisk about like squirrels in spring
For...
Phraseology
Thousands of Bizarre Origins, Unexpected Connections, and Fascinating Facts about English's Best Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use Everyday
Phraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. It contains information about phrase history and etymology; unusual, lost, or uncommon phrases; how phrases are formed;...
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Help others. Help yourself. Be a better person, and make the world a better place. Using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire, Instant Karma is a universe of things a reader can do, right now, to accumulate good karma. And, like pennies going into a piggy bank, each is a seemingly little...
Self-Meditation
3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Don’t self-medicate—self-meditate. In a book of thousands of entries, written in the abundant, winningly positive way that’s helped her books sell over 1.5 million copies, Barbara Ann Kipfer shows just how we can—and should—meditate anytime, anywhere, and reap the ever-growing list of mental...
14,000 Things to Be Happy About.
Newly Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Something to be happy about: This mesmerizing bestseller is revised and updated. Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary!) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it’s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 4,000 fresh and more current...
What Would Buddha Say?
1,501 Right-Speech Teachings for Communicating Mindfully
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
We’ve all said things we lived to regret. But what if we communicated mindfully instead, stopping first to consider how our words might hurt rather than help—or if we need to voice them at all? In What Would Buddha Say?, best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer offers 1,501 reminders for staying...
How Would Buddha Think?
1,501 Right-Intention Teachings for Cultivating a Peaceful Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” —The BuddhaEvery word and every action begins with a thought. Negative thoughts based in jealousy, greed, or hatred may seem harmless on the surface. After all, they’re only thoughts, right? But while thoughts are only in our head, they...
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Comment votre vie changerait-elle si vous portiez pleinement attention à tout ce que vous dites ? Votre parole est puissante; elle peut vous faire des amis ou des ennemis et influencer votre vie d'innombrables façons. Mais dans notre univers débordant et notre ère numérique de messages texte...
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
This all-new guide to english is designed to be user-friendly. Its innovative A-to-Z dictionary format lets you find the answers to your questions about grammar, punctuation, and preferred usage quickly and easily. Simply look up the problem areas as you would look up a word in the dictionary. It's...
by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
We all know language changes rapidly, but to follow along requires an historical view. Chapman's Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition, provides just what is needed to trace the language of today back to its American roots.
And make no mistake––this is a dictionary that is purely...
Breath Perception
A Daily Guide to Stress Relief, Mindfulness, and Inner Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A daily guide to harnessing the amazing power of breath.
Breath Perception is your companion to understanding the power of breath and using it as a tool to improve your physical and mental health. Partly because we take breath for granted and do not work” with it, we are somewhat unaware...
8,789 Words of Wisdom
Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
An essential, obsessive collection of all those wise and quirky sayings we’ve heard before—plus plenty of essential, obscure ones to discover—now all in one place.
With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms—8,789...
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large--retrace...
Natural Meditation
Refreshing Your Spirit through Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Make time to slow down, breathe, be awake, be aware, and appreciate.
Natural Meditation offers easy-to-follow meditation cues for meditating in natural settings or meditating on natural images or objects. Sidebars throughout the book provide suggestions on how to incorporate nature into your...
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