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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The truth is happiness is fleeting, and we are stressing ourselves out trying to achieve it. In This Book Won't Make You Happy, national media commentator and Psychology Today columnist Feliciano offers a path to something much more achievable and abundantly more satisfying: contentment"--
Happiness is fleeting-- and we are stressing ourselves out trying to achieve it. Feliciano offers a path to something much more achievable and abundantly more...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A simple shift in thinking can change everything you believe about your own happiness. By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare ourselves to others and speculate about an impossible-to-know future, holding out hope for an improved life through getting ahead, fulfilling passion, or finding true love. But the idea that happiness...
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Language
English
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Painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) led a highly nontraditional life, especially for a woman in the nineteenth century. She kept lions as pets, was awarded the Legion of Honor by Empress Eugénie, and befriended "Buffalo Bill" Cody. She became a painter at a time when women were often only reluctantly educated as artists. Her unconventional artistic work habits, including visiting slaughterhouses to sketch animal anatomy and wearing mens...
5) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Language
English
Description
"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The New Good Life is within our reach. Making Home is about improving our lives with the real people around us and the resources we already have. While encouraging us to be more resilient in the face of hard times, author Sharon Astyk also reveals the beauty, grace and elegance that result, because getting the most out of fulfilling.
Bursting with warmth, good humor and an uncommon amount of common sense, Making Home shows readers how to turn the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Tina is a global icon of hope. And now, with Happiness Becomes You, she shows how anyone can overcome obstacles in life--even transform the impossible to possible--and fulfill our dreams. She shows how we, too, can improve our lives, empowering us with spiritual tools and sage advice to enrich our unique paths. For decades, Tina has shined brightly as an example of someone who can generate hope from nothing, break through all limitations, and achieve...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
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Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2018, 2018
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives and accomplishments of eight women artists from around the world. Every story comes with an engaging activity that will nurture a child's own varied skills and inspire them to pursue a treasured goal or aspiration.
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Language
English
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"Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. With a deeply personal touch, she explains that just like any skill, optimism requires practice and demonstrates how we can shift our mindsets and give ourselves permission to let our best intentions take root and be true"--
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Author
Publisher
Tyndale Refresh
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Reveals the seven neuroscience secrets to becoming more than 30 percent happier in just 30 days--regardless of your age, upbringing, genetics, or current situation"--
Happiness is a brain function: with a healthier brain always comes a happier life. After studying brain scans of people from 155 countries, Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets that influence happiness. Here he explains them-- and offers practical,...
12) I'm that girl
Author
Publisher
[Welby Street Press]
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"Edgy. Christian. Necessary. Not written as a health, weight, relationship, or 'find your happiness' type of book, but is by default. But first... can we just have a super honest chat and explain ourselves? This is not a cookbook... and perhaps that is throwing you off. What are you forcing on us here sisters... and why? You know THM as a health and wellness brand. You know us as the sisters who have been cheering women on to become their trimmiest...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Declaration of Independence identified 'the pursuit of happiness' as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
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