Self-Improvement/Self Help

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Jose M. De Olivares has over 40 years of experience helping teens. De Olivares survived growing up on the streets in the South Bronx, walked the beat in the housing projects of St.

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Jason Siff advises “what to do when the instructions get in the way.” That is, for both beginning and experienced meditation students, he encourages practitioners to relax.

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Story vignettes are like hors d’oeuvres. They pique your interest, but they’re not very filling.

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Did you know that pay for performance schemes do not work and can actually be harmful to human motivation? Or that extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity?

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So what happens to helicopter parents and their children when the kids go to college? Well, that’s precisely the question Barbara K.

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The book jacket description of The Creative Life as a “passionate guide” might suggest the writing will be urgent or lustful or vehement.

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If there’s one thing that doesn’t quite compute, it’s reading about the nation’s dysfunctional economy while one of the greatest business resources of our time–the Internet–is changing the nature o

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Can Irish sexuality free itself from the criminal evidence, the violent expression, the caricatured reaction?

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The Lost Years by Kristina Wandzilak (daughter), and Constance Curry (mother), is the raw and touching story of a family that endures unimaginable hardships in an attempt to save their dau

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According to his only child, Christopher, William F.

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How to Master Your Muck by Kathi Burns hits everything on the checklist for a well-designed book. A “how-to” title? Check.

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“. . . the lonely were more likely to have died than the nonlonely.”

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You Already Know How to Be Great reaches beyond coaches to managers, human resource professionals, teachers, parents—anyone whose role requires them to give performance feedback or periodi

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Some books are works of fine literature. Others are insightful and educational works of nonfiction. Still others are just a hoot to read.

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For anyone who has walked side-by-side in the culminating steps of the life of an elderly person, Ann Putnam’s Full Moon at Noontide is a healing balm. She understands.

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