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1) Wisdom
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WISDOM eBook, produced by Wisdom Consultancy Ltd, is full of wisdom to be gleaned for a victorious living. There are educative and informative general interests' stories, personality interviews, health, immigration articles and stories of personal encounters. This edition features health tips, marriage advice and family planning. Read all about the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Wisdom Photo Talks packages an exclusive photo gallery of weddings,...
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xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others tussle it out. Vamos! Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda's audience...
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255 pages ; 19 cm.
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El Dalai Lama, el líder budista más conocido y respetado, y Premio Nobel de la Paz, enseña en esta obra a reconocer las nociones equivocadas que tenemos de nosotros mismos para abordar la realidad desde una perspectiva más certera y humana. Como las dos alas de un pájaro, el amor y el conocimiento interior trabajan juntos para llevarnos a la iluminación. Con anécdotas personales, el Dalai Lama muestra en esta obra las claves que ofrece la tradición...
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103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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The Monty Python comic master shares lighthearted advice on how anyone can learn the skill of creativity, drawing on personal experience to explain how to get into the right frame of mind, develop worthwhile ideas, and overcome blocks.
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xxii, 197 pages ; 21 cm
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How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting approach to self-improvement for women, one that offers no-crap truth-telling about the most common self-destructive behaviors women tend to engage in. From listening to the imposter complex and bitchy inner critic to catastrophizing and people-pleasing, Andrea Owen--a nationally sought-after life coach--crystallizes what's behind these invisible, undermining habits. With each chapter, she kicks...
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xii, 198 pages ; 19 cm.
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"From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything." Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds. "Old," he writes, "is just another word for nothing left...
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xiv, 178 pages ; 23 cm
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"Over the past 20 years, Jim Brickman has quietly amassed a huge following as a contemporary pianist. Fans continually reach out to let him know that his soothing sounds have helped them handle a wide spectrum of life's challenges and events, from a father-daughter wedding dance to delivering a baby to enduring chemotherapy. Brickman's listeners trust his music to deal with a crisis, find peace, rekindle romance, or simply relax. They want advice...
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210 pages ; 22 cm
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"Written with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life--learning to forgive. Here, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt shows us what we can learn from those who have struggled with forgiveness, some still struggling, and others who have been able to forgive what might...
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Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first, written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. She also insists that writing can be both, taught and learned. This is Dorothea Brande's legacy to all those who have ever wanted to express their ideas in written form. A sound, practical, inspirational and charming approach to writing, it fulfills on finding...
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341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top of the sport-climbing circuit. Caldwell's affinity for adventure then led him to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of big wall free climbing. But his evolution as a climber was not without challenges; in his early twenties, he was held...
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Johnny McCabe was born in 1935, in Machias, Maine. When he turned one, his family moved to Florida. By the time he was three, both of his parents had died. Johnny began his conscious life in an orphanage in South Carolina.
When he was twelve, Johnny hitched rides from the orphanage to Florida to visit his sister. She returned him to the orphanage. The next year, he hitched rides to Philadelphia to visit his brother. The brother also returned Johnny...
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This book is about 4 golden years of Christianity in America and the opportunity of 119 million American Citizens to become a Millionaire and 2017 is the year of Jubilee for Israel and all American debt be cancelled at the same time as America defense Israel. This book is touching Heaven and changing earth and this is a must book to every single American to have it or you will miss the hugest Blessing are ready to manifest to every believer. Amen...
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A Successful Formula is a motivational book about making significant strides and major changes in our lives. It provides concrete, specific examples about people-past and present-and their unique life's experiences, which were influential in shaping our society. It shows how to not use violence as your measuring stick, overcoming unfairness, and being consistent in your endeavours. For example, if you've hit rock bottom, then it will guide you on...
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This book reflects life, each-and-every one of us in our journeys as all of us inevitably end in the same place. It is our journeys, individually and those, we share time and space with, along with the many souls on four legs that define the happiness inside. It is also imperative that we find ways to help the world we live in, for those many starfish that ended on the beach, and for each of those starfish that we can throw back in the water, well,...
16) I Dare You!
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Considered to be one of the most important self-help books ever written, "I Dare You!" was first published in 1931 by William Danforth, the founder of the Ralston-Purina pet food company and the American Youth Foundation. Danforth was a successful entrepreneur who spent much of his life helping and counseling young people and founded a youth camp in Michigan dedicated to mentoring youth. In this influential work, he expounded on his belief that a...
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James Allen was a British philosophical writer and poet and a pioneer of the self-help movement. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most popular writers on spirituality, his many books comforting millions of readers with their simple, unpretentious wisdom about living a joyful life.
This book is one of Allen's deepest works, dealing with fundamental principles of the human experience. It is a guide to meditation and the use of the...
18) The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off: thoughts on life, love, and rebellion
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xxiii, 161 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"For decades -- and especially now in these times of crisis -- people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem's gift for creating quotes that inspire action and create hope. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, up to today, Steinem's words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Gloria sees quotes as 'the poetry of everyday life,' so she also has included a few favorites...
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Choosing death over what he considers a living hell, Sean attempts to end his desperate life. Incompletely done, so far, we meet him waking, disoriented and confused, in what turns out to be his own inner world somewhere between life and deathand his time is steadily bleeding out. Sean finds himself being escorted by allies to a mysterious meeting. There, he would have a rare opportunity to ask some fundamental questions about the nature of reality...
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Como un Hombre Piensa, Así es su Vida de James Allen es un tesoro de sabiduría atemporal que explora la poderosa conexión entre el pensamiento y la realidad. Publicado en 1903, Allen ofrece una profunda reflexión sobre la influencia directa que tienen nuestros pensamientos en la calidad de nuestras vidas. La obra presenta la premisa fundamental de que los pensamientos positivos y constructivos son los cimientos de una vida exitosa y plena.
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