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13 Things That Dont Make Sense
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing. The effects of homeopathy don’t go away under rigorous scientific conditions. The laws of nature aren’t what they used to be. Thirty years on, no one has an explanation for a seemingly intelligent signal received from outer space? The US Department of Energy is re-examining cold fusion because the experimental evidence seems too solid to ignore. The placebo effect is put to work in medicine while doctors can’t agree whether it even exists.
In an age when science is supposed to be king, scientists are beset by experimental results they simply can’t explain. But, if the past is anything to go by, these anomalies contain the seeds of future revolutions. While taking readers on an entertaining tour d’horizon of the strangest of scientific findings – involving everything from our lack of free will to Martian methane that offers new evidence of life on the planet – Michael Brooks argues that the things we don’t understand are the key to what we are about to discover.
This mind-boggling but entirely accessible survey of the outer limits of human knowledge is based on a short article by Michael Brooks for New Scientist magazine. It became the sixth most circulated story on the internet in 2005, and provoked widespread comment and compliments (Google "13 things that do not make sense” to see).
Michael Brooks has now dug deeply into those mysteries, with extraordinary results.
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ISBN:9780385664233
Author:Michael Brooks
Cry of the Heart
Make Your Mark Getting Right What Sam...
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Your decisions matter. You've been created to live a great story and leave a dent in this universe.
Wrestling with our calling in life is a fundamental struggle for just about everyone. Who are we supposed to be? How are we supposed to live? What are we supposed to do? These are all questions many of us grapple with.
Surprisingly, the Samson narrative is one of the most instructive stories for helping us answer these questions. Often touted as a story about muscles, testosterone, and seduction, there is so much more to this ancient account.
Employing all the best tools for interpreting the Bible today, Brad Gray unpacks the Samson story anew, giving us fresh insights into the universal callings of those desiring to live out God's fullest design for life. Perfect for personal and small group study, MAKE YOUR MARK will reignite your sense of purpose and stretch your faith so you can find the next step on the journey towards your calling.
With passion, humor, and skill, Brad shows us how we can get right what Samson got wrong in order to flourish in our humanity, to make the most of the lives we've been given, and to leave a positive mark on our world.
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ISBN:9781455573608
Author:Brad Gray
Imagine Believe Become
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Every extraordinary achievement begins with a life changing moment…Embrace your moment…discover the path of GIBÉBÉ. GIBÉBÉ the book takes you on an exciting journey of self-discovery.
It explores and expounds on the three pillars of Imagine, Believe, Become and delves into the steps within each pillar empowering you to realize and achieve your potential.
ISBN:9789966161512
Author:Joyce Mbaya
The Vortex
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The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham®, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced.
This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex, where you will rendezvous with everything and everyone you have been looking for.
ISBN:9781848500358
Author:Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks
Finding Our Way Home
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Finding Our Way Home: Heartwarming Stories That Ignite Our Spiritual Core
In a deeply heartfelt way, Jerry Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione share stories of their spiritual journey, detours they’ve taken, and people who have impacted them along their life trail. Using the Hawaiian tradition of "talking story,” Jerry and Diane demonstrate the daily application of spiritual principles and practical spirituality.
Individually and together, they weave their journey for us as it continues to evolve from the influences around them. They inspire us to embrace and share our own stories of peaks and valleys that make up our journeys.
The authors’ honest and vulnerable style of communicating continues to reveal their life purposes in the choices they make and the lessons they’ve learned. "Each day still provides challenges and circumstances that call to those parts of us that want to judge others or ourselves,” they write. "What is different now is that we more quickly recognize when we’re lost and the choice we have to return to the path of unconditional love.
Once we remember that our purpose is service and helping others, as well as letting go of our judgments and grievances by practicing forgiveness, the path is easier, the direction clearer, and the destination of peace achievable.”
ISBN:9781401917937
Author:Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione
Why Kindness is Good For You
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Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain, impacts the heart and immune system, and may even be an antidote to depression. We're actually genetically wired to be kind. In this book, inspirational ex-scientist David Hamilton shows that kindness has evolved in us and thus its effects are felt daily throughout our nervous systems.
When we're kind, our bodies are healthiest. This groundbreaking book is filled with fascinating new discoveries, including: how kindness developed in our genes; that love and kindness can make a damaged heart regenerate faster; how kindness and compassion alter the neural structures of our brains; and that gratitude can make you at least 25 per cent happier.
This unique book fuses scientific research around being kind with inspirational real life examples of kindness from ordinary people. Reading these stories will nourish your soul and leave you with renewed optimism for the future, and this book will help you see the many levels on which taking the time to make a difference could transform your health - and your whole world.
ISBN:9781848501782
Author:David R. Hamilton
Finishing Strong Going the Distance f...
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Bestselling author Steve Farrar has good news for the average man: it doesn't matter if you've had a great start in the Christian life, or a rough one. It doesn't matter if you've stumbled time and again, or even fallen flat on your face.
What matters most in this all-important race of life is how you finish. According to Farrar, the man who hangs in there for the long haul with his wife, his kids, and his Lord is an exception these days.
Finishing Strong, now in trade paperback, offers lively use of Scripture, contemporary illustrations, and study questions to equip every reader to be that exception. For the man who wants to climb the character ladder more than the corporate one, this is an essential tool.
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ISBN:9781576737262
Author:Steve Farrar
Daily Meditations for Expectant Mothers
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From the moment of conception an expectant mother begins a life changing journey The 40 weeks of daily reflections in this book complete with words of wisdom and encouragement from such varied sources as Emily Dickinson Benjamin Spock Anna Quindlen and Dorothy Parker illuminate the expectant mother’s path and help her celebrate all the miracles along the way
ISBN:9788179925058
Author:Ellen Sue Stern
The Art of Influence Persuading Other...
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The Art of Influence will make you think twice about everything you've ever learned about influence. As Chris Widener’s inspiring story reveals, it’s not something you "do" to other people but rather something that starts with how you shape and transform your own life.
Forget about manipulation and slick fast-talking; The Art of Influence teaches that your ability to influence others begins from within.
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ISBN:9780385521031
Author:Chris Widener
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: Wh...
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn.
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace.
She tells them that's exactly the case: Business is indeed a game, and like any game, there are rules to playing well. For the most part, Gail has discovered, women don't know them.
Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career.
Now, in her book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, Gail Evans reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage.
Sharing with humor and candor her years of lessons from corporate life, Gail Evans gives readers practical tools for making the right decisions at work. Among the rules you will learn are:
• How to Keep Score at Work
• When to Take a Risk
• How to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome
• Ten Vocabulary Words That Mean Different Things to Men and Women
• Why Men Can be Ugly, and You Can't
• When to Quit Your Job
Evans is not saying that every woman has to play exactly by men's rules--not at all. Women bring many inherent traits to the workplace that can provide them with a potential advantage over men, such as a woman's ability to form relationships, or her intuition. But women do need to know the basic rules so that they can understand the full consequences of their every action and how it makes an impact on their career.
From Socrates to Sartre The Philosoph...
A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilization
From Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato’s Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T. Z. Lavine, Elton Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, makes philosophy come alive with astonishing clarity to give us a deeper, more meaningful understanding of ourselves and our times.
From Socrates to Sartre discusses Western philosophers in terms of the historical and intellectual environment which influenced them, and it connects their lasting ideas to the public and private choices we face in America today.
From Socrates to Sartre formed the basis of from the PBS television series of the same name.
Flip
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Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings
What do the superstars of modern business have in common? An ability to "flip"—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions.
One of the youngest and fastest-rising stars on the international consulting and speaking circuit, Peter Sheahan reveals how the world's most effective organizations and individuals distinguish themselves from the competition instead of running with the pack.
Sheahan explores six major flips
• Action Creates Clarity—to move forward you must act in spite of ambiguity.
• Fast, Good, Cheap: Pick Three, Then Add Something Extra—the new standard in every industry.
• To develop competitive advantage, you must Absolutely, Positively Sweat the Small Stuff.
• Satisfy customers' needs for engagement and contact—it's not "just business"—Business Is Personal.
• To win mass-market success, be courageous, Find It on the Fringe, and separate yourself from the competitive herd.
• To Get Control, Give It Up—empower others to create, dream, and believe for you.
Stick to what you learned in business school at your peril. Today's small-world economy calls for a new way of doing business. It calls for Flip.
ISBN:9780061719639
Author:Peter Sheahan
The Seven Day Weekend
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Ricardo Semler thinks that companies ought to put employee freedom and satisfaction ahead of corporate goals.
Imagine a company where employees set their own hours; where there are no offices, no job titles, no business plans; where employees get to endorse or veto any new venture; where kids are encouraged to run the halls; and where the CEO lets other people make nearly all the decisions.
This company—Semco—actually exists, and despite a seeming recipe for chaos, its revenues have grown from $35 million to $160 million in the last six years. It has virtually no staff turnover, and there are no signs that its growth will stop any time soon.
How did Semco become wildly successful despite breaking many of the commonly accepted laws of business? In The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler shows that for those willing to take a chance, there is a better way to run a workplace.
He explains how the technology that was supposed to make life easier—laptops, cell phones, e-mail, pagers—has in fact stolen free time and destroyed the traditional nine-to-five workday. But this can be a good thing—if you have the freedom to get your job done on your own terms and to blend your work life and personal life with enthusiasm and creative energy.
Smart bosses will eventually realize that you might be most productive if you work on Sunday afternoon, play golf on Monday morning, go to a movie on Tuesday afternoon, and watch your child play soccer on Thursday.
This is a radical book that will challenge the business world to make the seven-day weekend a reality.
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ISBN:9781591840268
Author:Ricardo Semler
A Year of Growing Rich
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Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards
The phenomenal bestseller Think and Grow Rich established Napoleon Hill as an authority on motivation and success.
These revised and updated motivational and inspirational passages-keys to wealth, power, happiness, and good health-were originally published in Hill's magazine, Success Unlimited.
ISBN:9780452270541
Author:Napoleon Hill
A Contented House with Twins
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A Contented House with Twins unites the UK's leading baby expert, Gina Ford, and the highly regarded television presenter Alice Beer, a mother of twin girls.
Discovering you are pregnant with twins is both an exciting and a thoroughly terrifying prospect. Within weeks of the arrival of her beautiful daughters, Alice found that she was "screaming out for a routine" and craving the knowledge of mothers who had been through it with two.
This book is the result of those cries. Alice's front-line experience of coping with twins is combined with Gina's highly successful parenting advice and, for the first time, her groundbreaking routines, specially adapted for twins.
Together, they tackle the practical and emotional aspects of parenting two babies, including what you can expect in a multiple pregnancy; how to feed two at once; what to do when they each want a different story or both want a hug; and how to cope with everyday practicalities: shopping, bath time, and much more.
Alice's humorous insights and Gina's essential advice, tips, support, and successful routines will guarantee that parents enjoy their twins and get their lives back.
ISBN:9780091906986
Author:Gina Ford
Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam ...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.”
Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.
Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death.
But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy.
Resilience comes from deep within us and from supporting us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces.
Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. "I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, "Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B.
We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.
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ISBN:9781524732684
Author:Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubtin...
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word.
If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it NOW.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
If you're wanting to kick some serious ass in the money department (you wanna?) and start making the kind of dinero you ain't never made before, pre-order the next book in the series that's all about your financial badassery: You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth, coming April 2017 from Viking Books.
How to Invest in Financial Markets by...
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Where and How to Invest Your Money
Have you ever found yourself asking that question: "Where do I get money to invest?” Inn this book, Ken Monyoncho, author of How to Save Money for Investment, brings you startling new answers to your most pressing questions on financial investment.
Did you know, for example, that it is possible to invest and get a return of over 30 per cent in one year? Read on!
Do you sometimes worry that you haven’t made the right investment decisions? Or that you haven’t paid too much attention to your money and how to grow it? In an easygoing style, this book shows you that investing in the financial markets is not that complicated, after all.
It gives you ideas and practical advise on how to make sensible financial choices and overcome inertia regarding expending your money for gain.
In his signature straight talk, Ken Monyoncho proves yet again that the best ideas are simple as he conveys the basic rules of investing successfully, and how you can establish clear goals and live your dream.
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ISBN:9789966003546
Author:Ken Monyoncho
How to Save Money for Investment by K...
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Have you ever asked yourself "Where do I find money to save?” Ken Monyoncho, an expert in finance, answers this question in How To Save Money for Investment.
The book gives practical principles that will set you on the path to financial freedom and success. Learn how to implement principles of saving money in your own life by reading and reflecting on real life examples. Also, learn how to:
• Train your brain to save
• Develop a saving plan
• Avoid paying unnecessary fees
• Live on less than you earn