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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A leading psychologist demonstrates the power of human intuition to make predictions based on small amounts of information, explaining how intuition is typically surprisingly accurate while offering recommendations on how to tap intuitive skills to increase predictive capacities and advance professional and personal relationships.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she'd normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters--events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system...
69) Moon rising
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five new dragonets rise to the call of their destiny in the wake of a new prophecy that is overshadowed by old enemies, a centuries-buried evil, and a young NightWing's true prophecy.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the onset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family and his frustrations with the Bureau's outdated methods.
73) On Chesil Beach
Author
Language
English
Description
On their wedding day in 1962, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award–winning, bestselling journalist Eva Holland's Nerve is "an intimate and wide-ranging look at fears and how we overcome them" (New York Times).
A TIME Top 100 Must Read
Since childhood, Eva Holland has been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother and fear of heights. The worst comes to pass with her mother's sudden death in 2015, and something shifts for Eva. Then, when an ice-climbing...
A TIME Top 100 Must Read
Since childhood, Eva Holland has been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother and fear of heights. The worst comes to pass with her mother's sudden death in 2015, and something shifts for Eva. Then, when an ice-climbing...
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