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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes,...
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Language
English
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Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan--there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rate race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.--Back cover.
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Language
English
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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 222 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to sorting through the many priorities in your life, showing you how to carefully and consistently evaluate what your IT (Important Thing) should be, and how to get IT done. How busy are you? In the daily struggle to get it all done, what are you forgetting? Is your mind constantly racing with lists of all the things you could and should be doing? Does your day often feel like you’re treading water in an ocean of rushes and deadlines,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xv, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is well established that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Now a groundbreaking book, based on thirty years’ research, takes an important step past this idea. The Spirit Level shows that there is one common factor that links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Not wealth; not resources; not culture, climate, diet, or system of government....
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Publisher
RBA Libros
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (ca. 37 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
Español
Description
A lo largo de los últimos veinte años, Jorge Bucay ha buscado tanto en el pensamiento de los sabios como en la sabiduría popular de los cuentos mensajes para enseñar y divulgar la manera de enfrentarse a los desafíos de la vida. Enseñar a anticipar el puedo al quiero, para que el deseo no quede condicionado por la fantasía de una limitación de tiempos pasados. Ayudar a quien le lee a darse cuenta de que sus ideas de "no debes" o "no puedes"...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A simple question, isn't it? So why does it feel so hard to answer? What's happening behind our smiles, our busyness, our to-do lists? It's time to sit with all the questions we've been avoiding, ignoring, or just not hearing, to find a path to something real. Crack open this spine and get ready. We're about to get really honest. Because this book? It's not about my truth, it's about yours. -- Back cover.
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Language
English
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We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests...
12) All you need
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl grows up to be an accomplished artist in this book about the small things that lead to a rich and fulfilling life."--
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The typical American worker puts in nine weeks more on the job than his or her European counterpart. The costs of this overwork are enormous, both personally and societally. This bracing collection of essays is both a wide-ranging analysis of the phenomenon and a blueprint for change. With contributions by such notable names as Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life, and David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, this book shows...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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The deeply personal story of why award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced extreme frugality in order to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life and retire to a homestead in the woods at age thirty-two with her husband and daughter.
In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 9-5 young urban professionals. But the couple had a dream
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 341 pages : illustrations, 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and overall healthier lives. In fact, the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveals that the strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our brains as we go through life."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world — from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shear waters off the islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — Doherty illuminates birds’...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel that explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central 'uses' for a woman in that time and place -- namely, sex and marriage. From the country doctor who adopts Jane to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the highly erotic world of nature around her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, the world of Miss Jane Chisolm...
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