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For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting,...

A leadership expert describes principles that help increase personal development and growth, explaining how to see existing value while still adding more and how to eliminate the tension between one's present state and goals.

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Daniel Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the...

Jim overcomes self-doubt and learns to laugh at his own shortcomings in this warm, reassuring story. So What? is the newest edition in the acclaimed Welcome to the First Grade! collection. Funny, quietly sensitive, and crisply written.

"Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images--and their individual components--work to tell a story that engages the emotions: Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This fans will welcome...

Russell Targ, laser physicist and well-known author, cofounder of Stanford Research Institute to explore psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s, is now teaching remote-viewing workshops worldwide. For decades Targ has produced some of the most significant scientific research ever conducted on the nature of consciousness. He has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the mind can function without limitation in space and time and that this ability...

Discusses the phenomenom of extrasensory perception in people, and the arguments for and against its existence.

White illustrations against a black background, alternating with black illustrations against a white background, depicting objects such as an elephant, butterfly, leaf, horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

Black illustratons against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf. On board pages.