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The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard...
Trying Not to Try
Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being
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Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed...
Delivered from Distraction
Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
“If you read only one book about attention deficit disorder, it should be Delivered from Distraction.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder....
by Gibbon, Edward
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
All six volumes are contained in this eBook. There is a linked table of contents, and the footnotes are also linked. Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth...
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**Winner of the Lincoln Prize
A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.**
At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world,...
The End of the Peace Process
Oslo and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises...
Fox Tossing
And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of history’s most bizarre sports and stories of mankind’s most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuits—from baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis.
Have you ever wondered what people...
Crazy Horse
The Lakota Warrior’s Life & Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With notes by the Rev. H. H. MilmanThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89....
Triumph of the City
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities
America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist,...
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took...
by Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John...
Dark Light Consciousness
Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
How to awaken the Ureaus--the serpent power of spiritual transcendence within each of us--and connect to the superconscious of the universe
• Reveals the biochemistry of how the body’s melanin provides the template for the subtle energy body or light body
• Shows how embracing...
Ordinary Goodness
The Surprisingly Effortless Path to Creating a Life of Meaning and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A call to action to live a life full of goodness and purpose
People often struggle to find a life filled with passion, happiness—and just plain goodness. This struggle drives many to depression and addictive tendencies. Author and New Thought minister Edward Viljoen argues that the struggle...