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Enough As She Is
How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls’ dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of ‘success’ comes at the expense of self-worth and well-being....
Shut Up and Run
How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
An ultra marathoner and running coach captures the energy and joy of running in this illustrated, full-color motivational interactive fitness guide and journal that will inspire every type of runner—from beginner to experienced marathoner—to shut up and run.
Running isn’t just an activity,...
Terms of Service
Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystalizes this current moment in technology and...
by Alexandra Stoddard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
From moonlight dancing to sunrise swimming, this book explores the sensuous stories of love experienced by one woman during her twenty-three-year marriage while discussing how she has dealt with the occasional trials and tribulations within the relationship.
by Joyce Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In The Vision Board, influential career strategist Joyce Schwartz describes a transformative exercise that offers a simple way to change your life for the better. As featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, vision boards are a practical, effective approach to identifying and achieving your goals. With...
How We Work
Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
“I have long thought that what the Buddha taught can be seen as a highly developed science of mind which, if made more accessible to a lay audience, could benefit many people. I believe that Dr. Weiss’s book, in combining such insights with science and good business practice, offers an effective...
The Chain
Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A harrowing investigation of the tortuous path our food products take—from slaughter to Spam
On the production line in American packing-houses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated...
by William Zinsser
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In this helpful and entertaining book the author of the classic On Writing Well explains that he has always had a love of paper and a fear of mechanical objects. He describes how he confronted his hang-ups, got a word processor, taught himself to use it and gradually overcame his sense of inferiority...
by Kenneth Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context.
Kenneth Goldsmith wants you to...
How to Sell Your Art Online
Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own Terms
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
An essential guide for artist that teaches them how to skip the gallery system, find their niche, and connect directly with collectors to profitably sell their art.
For years, galleries have acted as gatekeeper separating artists and collectors. But with the explosion of the Internet, a new...
Tao Te Ching
A New English Version
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching llods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit....
Irrationally Yours
On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, “Ask Ariely”.
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized...
by Kate Harper
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
Audrey Hathaway is in no rush to find a husband, despite the fact that she is being wooed by an earl, no less. Having seen her siblings sublime happiness with their own partners, she is prepared to wait until she finds her soul mate. Still, she believes the Earl of Allingham has potential, right up...
Rice, Noodle, Fish
Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice, along with 195 color photographs. In this 5000-mile journey through the...