Learned Optimism
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Written by Martin E. Seligman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.95
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an...
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Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $13.99
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's
Switch.
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with...
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $15.99
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of
The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them...
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The Sociopath Next Door
Written by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $12.99
Who is the devil
you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of
The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was...
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The Talent Code
Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Written by Daniel Coyle
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $13.99
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play...
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Raising Cain
Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Written by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Kindlon and...
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