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"Tell Me More is a funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. With Kelly's signature candor and good will, each chapter draws from her sometimes ridiculous, sometimes profound struggles with parenting and marriage, career and friendship, illness, aging and mortality. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious stories from Kelly's own life and is focused on one of seven sentences: Onward, a one-word sentence...
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Are you a young adult struggling to navigate the challenges of adulthood? Do you feel like you lack the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in your personal and professional life? If so, "The Young Adults' Concierge" is the book for you! This comprehensive guide is designed to help you master the essential life skills you need to thrive in today's world. From financial literacy to time management, from effective communication to mental and physical...
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El envejecimiento exitoso es un tema en el que es posible encontrar abundante literatura, así como sobre los problemas de salud asociados con esta etapa de la vida; sin embargo, es más difícil encontrar textos actualizados sobre los aspectos psicosociales del cuidado de los ancianos enfermos y en situación de dependencia. A través de una revisión crítica de la literatura, rastreando sus orígenes históricos y terminando con las contribuciones...
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El enfoque del envejecimiento positivo plantea que es imperativo contribuir a que los años que se han agregado a la vida humana merezcan la pena ser vividos. Es una obra escrita en un lenguaje claro, pero con apoyo científico, lo que la vuelve muy interesante y amena para profesores, alumnos, profesionales y público en general.
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212 pages ; 21 cm
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"With storytelling chops honed over a decade of performances with Chicago's 2nd Story storytelling series, Stielstra explores the messy, maddening beauty of adulthood with wit, intelligence, and biting humor. The personal essays in Once I was cool tackle topics ranging from beating postpartum depression by stalking her neighbor, to a surprise run-in with an old lover while on ecstasy, to blowing her mortgage on a condo she bought because of Jane's...
30) Honey girl
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"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know, until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father's plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn't feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 If you want to be fast after 50, you must be prepared to consider many matters. You must be an athlete all your life, and competition is a big part of who you are. If you have determination, you can do it.
#2 The choices you make every day are important for your health. They are not just about training, but also about lifestyle decisions, big or small. All are important.
#3...
32) TABOR
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Human nature and all its complexity lend themselves to inspection and introspection. Quick snapshots of the various aspects of the human condition provide food for thought.
A provocative book offering insights on concepts ranging from psychological development and personality disorders to friendship and the loss of potential through failure to act to bring energy to the occasion. The soul's purpose, ageing, and generational gaps the naïve optimism...
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La pregunta por el valor de la vejez y por el bien vivir en esta etapa de la vida ha recorrido la historia de la cultura humana. Desde Cicerón, quien se preguntaba en la Roma republicana por las claves del cómo envejecer con dignidad, hasta las investigaciones de la premio nobel en medicina Rita Levi-Montalcini, quien demostró con su trabajo que nuevas reconexiones neuronales se forman constantemente en la edad adulta y la vejez, lo que les permite...
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A los cincuenta años, la persona posee un mundo interior muy diferente del que poseía a los veinte. Se relaciona de otro modo consigo misma, su sexualidad es totalmente distinta y cambia su escala de valores en cuanto a carrera, familia y sociedad. El adulto es mucho más que un niño que creció. Es sorprendente que tan pocos estudios psicológicos se hayan dedicado a la edad madura. La terapia se interesa ante todo por la infancia y la proyecta...
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Do you care too much about what other people think and just want to be happy? If you want to feel comfortable in any situation around any person while feeling strong and alive, then keep reading...
Did you know that every year millions of people with empath are misdiagnosed with bipolar, social anxiety and other conditions?
Hundreds of 1000's of people go about their lives thinking they have a problem when really they have a gift.
Are you one of...
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No one has come from a perfect family, where all our feelings were honored and revered. Each of us, in order to learn, grow, and sometimes survive, had to develop a false self. Sometimes this false self can greatly stifle our progress and happiness. We become pleasers, rebels, or caretakers, leaving us afraid, angry, confused, depressed, and unhappy.
Since 1964, Dr. Sterling G. Ellsworth has helped thousands of people identify and receive their missing...
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La pandemia trastocó el mundo. Niñas, niños y adolescentes sintieron el desamparo colectivo y sufrieron importantes consecuencias psíquicas, que persisten en el presente y seguramente impactarán en el futuro. Se han agravado manifestaciones ya existentes y han aparecido nuevas. Los profesionales han debido reinventarse en la clínica y en las escuelas, y posiblemente tengan que seguir haciéndolo a diario. Pero también será necesario ligar,...
38) Cuando el día llega a su fin: Guía para cuidar a personas con demencia y alzhéimer en etapa terminal
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"¿Qué haría si se tratara de su familiar?", es la pregunta que muchos le hacen al médico que atiende su caso. ¿Cómo decidir por alguien más? ¿Cómo elegir lo mejor en tratamientos médicos, temas financieros, legales y sobre la vida de otra persona?
Cuando el día llega a su fin responde a estos cuestionamientos y acompaña a la familia y a cuidadores detrás de un diagnóstico de alzhéimer u otra enfermedad por demencia. La doctora Kenny...
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A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital-over-treated, infantilized, and, worst of all, facing a death without dignity. Families are being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patient. Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive...
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xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy. But once she'd completed her life's to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies--check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right," but she felt all wrong. What's the worse failure, she wondered:...
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