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Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey
by Joel Osteen#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen uses his seven successful principles from YOUR BEST LIFE NOW to give readers an edge on new beginnings and to make their faith count most in important moments.
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners
by Henry Alford"We all know bad manners when we see them," NPR and Vanity Fair contributor Henry Alford observes at the beginning of his new book. But what, he asks, do good manners look like in our day and age? When someone answers their cell phone in the middle of dining with you, or runs you off the sidewalk with their doublewide stroller, or you enter a post-apocalyptic public restroom, the long-revered wisdom of Emily Post can seem downright prehistoric. Troubled by the absence of good manners in his day-to-day life-by the people who clip their toenails on the subway or give three-letter replies to one's laboriously crafted missives-Alford embarks on a journey to find out how things might look if people were on their best behavior a tad more often. He travels to Japan (the "Fort Knox Reserve" of good manners) to observe its culture of collective politesse. He interviews etiquette experts both likely (Judith Martin, Tim Gunn) and unlikely (a former prisoner, an army sergeant). He plays a game called Touch the Waiter. And he volunteers himself as a tour guide to foreigners visiting New York City in order to do ground-level reconnaissance on cultural manners divides. Along the way (in typical Alford style) he also finds time to teach Miss Manners how to steal a cab; designates the World's Most Annoying Bride; and tosses his own hat into the ring, volunteering as an online etiquette coach. Ultimately, by tackling the etiquette questions specific to our age-such as Why shouldn't you ask a cab driver where's he's from?, Why is posting baby pictures on Facebook a fraught activity? and What's the problem with "No problem"?-Alford finds a wry and warm way into a subject that has sometimes been seen as pedantic or elitist. And in this way, he looks past the standard "dos" and "don'ts" of good form to present an illuminating, seriously entertaining book about grace and civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.
Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
by Anne KreamerAnne Kreamer considered herself a youthful 49 until a photo of herself with her teenage daughter stopped her in her tracks. In one unguarded moment she saw herself for what she really was -- a middle-aged woman with her hair dyed much too harshly. In that one moment Kreamer realized that she wasn't fooling anyone about her age and decided it was time to get real and embrace a more authentic life. She set out for herself a program to let her hair become its true color, and along the way discovered her true self. Going Gray is Kreamer's exploration of that experience, and a frank, warm and funny investigation of aging as a female obsession. Through interviews, field experiments, and her own everywoman's chronicle, Kreamer probes the issues behind two of the biggest fears aging women face: Can I be sexually attractive as a gray-haired, middle-aged woman? and Will I be discriminated against in the work world? Her answers will surprise you. In searching for the balance between attractiveness and authenticity, Kreamer's journey of middle-aging illiminates in a friendly, useful, and entertaining way the politics and personal costs of this generation's definition of "aging gracefully.
Now or Never: Keep Your Body Young, Fit and Firm with the Weight Training Program That Works Even as You Age
by Joyce L. VedralA program specifically designed to counteract the effect of aging, now or never offers you: A simple, fully explained, 6-hour-a week workout you can do at home or in the gym. A completely reshaped and redefined body in only one year. Firmer upper arms, higher breast, curvier buttocks, smoother thighs, and a flatter stomach...And much more.
Bridal Guide Magazine's How to Plan the Perfect Wedding Without Going Broke
by Diane FordenFor the first time, the experts at Bridal Guide, America's leading bridal magazine, have gathered all of their favorite cost-containing tips and stress-reducing strategies into one handy volume. This comprehensive, practical wedding planner offers hundreds of insider tips for cutting back on wedding costs without cutting back on style. From etiquette to officiants, transportation to tipping, and registry to rehearsal dinners, Bridal Guide's Diane Forden spells it all out for you. Charts, checklists, and calendars keep you on track and simplify each stage of the planning process.
Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life
by Alan LewA guide to deepening our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world through meditation and a new reading of traditional Jewish texts. Rabbi Alan Lew is the founder of the country's first meditation center connected to a synagogue. For the past 10 years, he has been teaching his congregation how two ancient traditions-classical Jewish writings and Zen meditation-can shed light on each other in electrifying ways.
Bounce, Don't Break: Brande's Guide to Life, Love, and Success
by Brande RoderickBrande Roderick, former Playmate of The Year and star of "Celebrity Apprentice Season 2," is your advisor, confidante, and stand in best friend in this fun, comprehensive guide to getting the best out of life from someone who knows how to live it "Bounce, DonOCOt Break "has something for every ageOCofrom the young woman unsure of what lies ahead to the seasoned career woman who is looking to sharpen her game. Brande offers the straight-talking advice that women need the most (and donOCOt always get)OCowords of wisdom she has shared with and received from her closest and most successful friends. Inside youOCOll find 8 keys to success, including tools to help YOU: assess and improve your self-reliance and self-esteem; identify personal and professional goals; strategize financially to reach short and long term aims; navigate dating and your search for Mr. Right; and much more. Brande convinces you that personal resilience, hard work, and clear-cut goals are the means to realizing your dreams. Packed with fun and informative quizzes, useful tips and tricks, as well as personal anecdotes and 30 color photographs, "Bounce, DonOCOt Break" will have you well on your way to enjoying the same level of success as Brande herself.
The Autism Book: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Early Detection, Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention
by Robert SearsWith clarity and compassion, Dr. Robert Sears guides the reader through the maze of autism, explaining what precautions parents can take to decrease their baby's risk, how to detect autism at the earliest possible age, and how to proceed once a diagnosis has been made. The book provides parents with a simple and clear understanding of the biomedical treatment approach that Dr. Sears has used successfully with many of his young patients. It lays out a plan for developmental, behavioral, and learning therapies; shows parents how to begin treatments without a doctor's help; presents information on vaccines and their safe use; and includes an extensive resources section. THE AUTISM BOOK provides all the information and reassurance parents need.
Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential
by Joel OsteenRenowned pastor Osteen offers motivational thoughts, inspirational messages, and helpful Scripture verses that will help readers strengthen their faith in God.
Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
by Michael Arkush Bill Courtney Foreword by Phil JacksonIn Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership, civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful life and career. Each chapter tells the story of one of these tenets through compelling anecdotes of the colorful characters in Bill’s life, leading to a deeper understand of the meaning of each and how to employee these fundamentals in all aspects of one’s life. Against the Grain intertwines inspiring and thought-provoking anecdotes, lessons, and amazing real life examples. Bill’s passion for us all to reconsider our own approach to life and constantly improve upon it comes across on every page.
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
by Ben Karlin Andy SelsbergThe Emmy award-winning former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report has assembled a stellar lineup of men who have one thing in common: all have been dumped...and are willing to share their pain and the lessons learned. Relationships end. And in almost all of them, even the most callow among us take something away. This is a book about that something, whether it be major life lessons, like 'If you lie, you will get caught,' simple truths like, 'Flowers work,' or something wholly unique like, 'Watch out for the high strung brother in the military.' This anthology will be comprised of longer and shorter pieces, drawn from an array of impressive celebrities, writers and public figures. Some pieces may be a paragraph in length while others will be full-blown essays. All of them will be about that salient something men take away from a failed relationship. Yes, men learn. This is not a touchy-feely book. This is not a self-help book. This is a book packed with smart, funny and insightful stories from men you probably thought never got dumped, or if they did, would never admit it."
God's Road Map for Grads
by David Bordon Tom WintersGraduates stand at a happy but potentially dangerous crossroads: they leave their teen years behind and begin to form their futures. Countless voices advise them on what values to embrace, what lifestyles to emulate, what roads to travel. Its all too easy to choose the slippery slope of compromise. The Gods Road Map series provides readers with biblical direction and ready encouragement for whatever challenges they face. GODS ROAD MAP FOR GRADS is full of time-tested truths that will spark godly journeys into life, making readers confident and excited about what lies ahead.
Too Close For Comfort: Exploring The Risks Of Intimacy
by Geraldine K. PiorkowskiCountless experts offer us advice on how to create the "perfect relationship," fostering the unrealistic expectation that forming an intimate bond will be a painless experience. Unfortunately, few experts are willing to confront the powerful challenges and emotions inherent within close relationships today. In contrast to other intimacy books, Too Close for Comfort vividly describes the surprising dangers, damage to self-esteem, inadequacies, and immaturities that characterize the contemporary state of romantic intimacy. Too Close for Comfort compassionately explores the risks and misunderstandings that occur within many intimate relationships. Romantic partners tend to hurt each other not only by insensitivity and neglect, but also by criticism, abuse, and betrayal - most of which spring from insecurity. Dr. Piorkowski, a noted consulting psychologist and educator, focuses on the vulnerability both partners experience in intimacy due to the emergence of strong, unrealistic needs that are almost impossible to satisfy. The author contends that people avoid the perils of intimacy by donning one or more defensive "masks" - ranging from acting superior to mysterious, comical to withdrawn, self-sufficient to dependent - in an effort to protect themselves from emotional exposure. Presenting a fascinating range of clinical examples, she sensitively depicts the fears of intimacy that limit contact, namely psychological concerns about loss of control or autonomy, feelings of disappointment and abandonment, or of being attacked and made to feel guilty. Depicting women's reliance on verbal expression to achieve an emotional connection versus men's dependence on physical contact, Dr. Piorkowski brilliantly elucidates the complex barriers to intimacy, especially the chasms of misunderstanding created by vast sexual differences and attitudes. While this book is unique in its exposition of the dangers in intimacy, its message is not pessimistic.
The Hormone Solutions: Naturally Alleviate Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance from Adolescence through Menopause
by Erika SchwartzDr. Schwartz shares her program for natural, safe, effective hormone balance.
The 12-Minute Total-Body Workout
by Joyce L. VedralThe secret of this workout is "dynamic tension." By using only one set of three-pound dumbbells (hand-held weights) you create your own resistance by flexing and using dynamic tension. Thousands of women have written to me that they have achieved a tight, toned body with this 12-minute a day time investment. Perhaps the most important aspect of this book is its ability to force you to keep your workout and diet up on vacation, on business trips, and when visiting , any time you're away from home. It shows you how to eat around the most impossible home, hotel or business menu. You can do the workout with no weights while traveling by just doing the moves and using the tension.
Put on Your Crown: Ten Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom
by Queen LatifahModeled after Maria Shriver's Just Who Will You Be, Queen Latifah's goal with Put On Your Crown is to help young women build a strong sense of self-esteem. A US Dept. of Justice survey found that females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to partner violence than any other group. Almost triple the national average. Cases like Chris Brown's assault on pop star Rihanna showed an ugly side of adolescent life. However, Queen Latifah has always been a shining example of a woman happy with herself and unwilling to compromise to fit into the "hollywood ideal" of what a confident beautiful woman should look like. The result: She's one of the biggest A-list celebrities in Hollywood.
The Arthritis Helpbook (mass mkt ed): A Tested Self-Management Program for Coping with Arthritis and Fibromyalgia
by Kate Lorig James FriesA thoroughly revised and updated edition of the book strongly recommended by both the Arthritis Foundation and the Arthritis Society
Straight Talk on Loneliness: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word!
by Joyce MeyerA Biblical approach to managing emotional difficulties.
Imagine Yourself Well: Better Health through Self-Hypnosis
by Sean F. Kelly Reid J. KellyBased upon their extensive practice and clinical research in therapeutic hypnotic techniques, the authors have constructed an effective handbook articulating the therapeutic use of hypnosis by depicting word-for-word what transpires during a session.<P><P> The fascinating series of carefully worded transcripts of hypnotic exercises will enable the reader to correct specific self-destructive habits (e.g., overeating and smoking), common psychological problems (insomnia and various phobias), chronic physical conditions (arthritis, back pain, high blood pressure, and migraine headaches), and performance anxieties (athletics and public speaking). The theory underlying clinical practice, including the key point that all hypnosis involves self-hypnosis, is explained in lay terms, and each exercise is grounded in sound cognitive, behavioral, or psychodynamic principles.
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
by Phillip C. McgrawIf you are: capable of more than you are accomplishing; frustrated that you are not making more money; stuck in a rut and not getting what you want; bored with yourself; silently enduring an emotionally barren life or marriage; trudging, zombie-like, through an unchallenging career; just "going through the motions" of your life; living in a comfort zone that yields too little challenge; living a lonely existence with little hope for change;then hold on as Dr. Phillip McGraw takes you on a guided tour of your life to honestly label the problems and causes that control your destiny.Life Strategies will give you the most honest explanation of your life and how you got where you are that has ever been published. Dr. McGraw is results-based and measures success in terms of changed lives, not rhetoric. This book is a plain-talk, entertaining way to learn to take control of your life, right now. Dr. Phil introduces you to the ten Laws of Life that every person needs to know. Learn them, use them, and improve virtually every aspect of your life, from work to home to spiritual to physical. Ignore them and you'll continue to pay the price.With Life Strategies, Dr. McGraw tells you how to strategically control your life, rather than continue as a frustrated passenger.
Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America's Richest Neighborhoods
by Ryan D'AgostinoRyan D'Agostino, former senior editor at Money, wanted to know how the wealthiest in America got that way. So he asked. Knocking on 500 doors in some of the most affluent zip codes in America, D'Agostino met with men and women who welcomed him in and shared their most difficult financial decisions, toughest setbacks, greatest strategies, most triumphant moments, and deepest insights. In RICH LIKE THEM, he weaves together what he learned and offers maxims for achieving wealth, such as "Never Let Pride Get in the Way of Profit," and "When you fail miserably, be thankful." Filled with inspiring stories and straight-up advice, RICH LIKE THEM is a lively and practical get-rich guide that any reader can follow.
At Long Last Love: Sage Advice and True Stories from America's Premier Matchmakers
by John Wingo Julie WingoA self-analysis guide for those looking for a lasting relationship.
Getting Naked Again: Dating, Romance, Sex, and Love When You've Been Divorced, Widowed, Dumped, or Distracted
by Judith SillsThere are more than 35 million single Americans over age forty seeking companionship. However, there are few things more daunting than reentering the dating world after having shared a bed with the same spouse for thirty years. For women of a certain age, the thought of meeting a man, knowing what to say to him on a date or-gasp-even getting naked again seems unimaginable. And yet, it's all part of the necessary drama that leads a woman back to love. In GETTING NAKED AGAIN, clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Judith Sills, PhD, leads readers through each stage of the process, offering practical advice and sharing insightful stories about women just like them, who have experienced loss through death, broken affairs, or divorce. In this book, she offers a frank, funny, and reassuring look at midlife dating and rediscovering the joys associated with newfound romance. Judith Sills is a regular contributor and relationship expert on the Today show and in other national media outlets. She is the author of many bestselling books, including Excess Baggage, Loving Men More, Needing Men Less, and Biting the Apple.
You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
by Jennifer BaumgartnerA OC clinical fashion psychologistOCO explains the hidden influences behind how you dress and how the right personal style can change your lifea
Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age
by Gail BelskyEvery Baby Boomer has to confront it: their changing midlife sex lives. Now, Gail Belsky provides an unfailingly honest anthology that is incredibly varied, wickedly funny, shockingly explicit, and surprisingly sweet about life in the bedroom after 40. Topics include an unexpected second marriage to a much younger man, the discovery of phone sex during wartime, the confession to an adulterous affair, and a his-and hers dissection of the changes in a long-term partnership--the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's all here on the journey "over the hill and between the sheets."