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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

By: Geneen Roth

Scribner

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Outliers: The Story of Success

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Little, Brown and Company

Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Challenging our cherished belief of the "self-made man," he makes the democratic assertion that superstars don't arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing ca...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Rebecca Skloot

Crown

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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

By: Gary Chapman

Northfield Publishing

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

Knopf

ECOTOPIA

Health The Carb Lovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim For Life

By: Ellen Kunes, Frances Largeman-Roth

Oxmoor House

The editors of Health Magazine (and top nutrition scientists) have big news: Eating carbs is the best way to get and stay slim. Breakthrough research revealed in this book shows how certain carb-rich foods--especially those with the amazing natural ingredient called Resistant Starch--act as powerful metabolism boosters and appetite suppressants. Rather than making you fat and bloated, as decades of low-carb diet gurus claimed, CARBS make you thin. They shrink fat cells, especially in your belly; boost fat burning; increase muscle mass; curb cravings; keep you feeling full longer than other foods; control blood sugar, and lower cholesterol and triglycerides!

Health Magazine, the expert when it comes to healthy living, takes this revo...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By: Stephen R. Covey

Free Press

"A wonderful book that could change your life" Tom Peters, bestselling author of In Search of Excellence. Covey presents a holistic, intergrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step by step, and human dignity principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

Penguin

A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic, alternative or processedhe develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books

This is the best book written by Malcolm Gladwell in my opinion. This is the book that started it all for him. Autographed by the man himself from a talk he did in Santa Barbara, California.

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutti...

By: Timothy Ferriss

Crown Archetype

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The Secret

By: Rhonda Byrne

Atria Books/Beyond Words

How to use information for the betterment of your life.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

By: Daniel G. Amen

Crown Archetype

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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

By: Chelsea Handler

Bloomsbury USA

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By: Michael Pollan

Penguin (Non-Classics)

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The Last Lecture

By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

Hyperion

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming...

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

By: Spencer Johnson

G. P. Putnam's Sons

Deal with change. #1 Bestseller book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. talks about how to deal with change in life and in the workplace.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H. Pink

Riverhead Hardcover

hardback, Riverhead Hardcover,by Daniel H. Pink

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

Penguin (Non-Classics)

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.

Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our...

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Impli...

By: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II

BenBella Books

Part Medical Thriller, Part Governmental Expose and Part Nutrition Manual. Dr. Campbell issues a stark warning against the imminent "Atkins Backlash". This is NOT a diet book. Consumers are bombarded with conflicting messages regarding health and nutrition; the market is flooded with popular titles like "The Atkins Diet" and "The South Beach Diet". Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and those concerned with the effect of ageing. Dr. Campbell challenges the validity of these low-carb fad diets and issues a startling warning to their followers. "The New York Times" has recognised the study ("China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project") as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" a...

The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life

By: Bethenny Frankel

Fireside

Join Bethenny on the Skinnygirl journey and learn how to cook
fearlessly and make the food you love that fits your lifestyle

In her New York Times bestseller Naturally Thin, Bethenny Frankel shares her ten real-life rules for enjoying healthful natural foods and escaping the diet trap. Now, in The Skinnygirl Dish, Bethenny joins you in the kitchen and shows you how to stop the "cooking noise" and put an end to the anxiety about how and what to cook and eat. The Skinnygirl dishes on how anyone can:

• Get in touch with your "inner chef" and make the Skinnygirl philosophy yours

• Use Bethenny's list of kitchen essentials and the core concep...

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Hyperion

Americas most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder

The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. Theyre intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmiths straightforward, jargonfree advice, its amazingly easy behavior to change.

Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coa...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

By: Eckhart Tolle

New World Library

Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.

Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, e...

Rework

By: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Crown Business

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Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Hyperion

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.

In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get--and keep--our Mojo. Our professional and personal Mojo is impacted by four key factors: identity (who do you think you are?), achievement (what have you done lately?), reputation (who do other people think you are--and what have you've done lately?), and acceptance (what can you change--and when do you need to just "let it go"?). Goldsmi...

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

By: Sean Covey

Fireside

Based on his father's bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he "stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world... along with a few other surprises." Did he ever! Flip open to any page and become instantly absorbed in real-life stories of teens who have overcome obstacles to succeed, and step-by-step guides to shifting paradigms, building equity in "relationship bank accounts," creating action plans, and much more.

As a self-acknowledged guinea pig for many of his dad's theories, Sean Covey is a living example of someone who has taken each of the seven h...

Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting

By: Bethenny Frankel

Fireside

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Transformation: The Mindset You Need. The Body You Want. The Life You Deserve

By: Bill Phillips

Hay House

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

By: Melody Beattie

Hazelden Publishing

Three years on the New York Times bestseller list, CODEPENDENT NO MORE first identified attitueds, feelings, and behaviors now recognized as hallmarks of codependency. Checklists, activities, and s

The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged!: Lasting Fat Loss That's Better than Ever!

By: Tosca Reno

Robert Kennedy Publishing

The Eat-Clean Diet helped readers understand how to stay healthy and lean forever. Three years later, hundreds of thousands of superstars, personal trainers and regular everyday people have overcome their weight and health problems by following The Eat-Clean Diet. This larger, revised and fully updated edition offers in-depth information on: non-threatening exercise o extending and improving your life o getting - and staying - motivated o getting rid of cellulite o tightening your skin o combating the harsh effects of menopause Plus! Nearly 100 new pages; Total redesign; 50 new recipes; Information on eating disorders; Menu plans for different diets; The Quick Eat-Clean Diet at a glance.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

By: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Harper Paperbacks

Outline How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk is an excellent communication tool kit based on a series of workshops developed by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Faber and Mazli

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

By: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

McGraw-Hill

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill

"Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partn...

New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great.

By: Eric C. Westman, Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek

Fireside

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

By: Michael Pollan

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation ...

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Mitch Albom

Broadway

This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie's final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robu...

Cook This, Not That!: Kitchen Survival Guide

By: David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding

Rodale Books

Did you know the average dinner from a chain restaurant costs nearly $35 a person and contains more than 1 200 calories? That?s hard on your wallet and your waistline and few people understand this better than the authors of Eat This Not That! After years of helping consumers navigate America?s daunting culinary landscape ? and literally thousands of weight-loss success stories ? Dave and Matt have finally turned their nutritional savvy to the place with the greatest impact ? your kitchen. The hundreds of recipes contained inside this book will help you and your loved ones eliminate body fat get in shape and lead fitter happier lives.But make no mistake ? this is no rice-and-tofu cookbook. The genius of Cook This Not That! is that it teaches you how to save hundreds ? sometimes thousand...

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

By: Sonia Shah

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

How To Win Friends and Influence People

By: Dale Carnegie

Simon & Schuster

This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone wa...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

By: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

Harper

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages.
How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jeth. While debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book.
Ryan and Jeth's ...

Forever Young: The Science of Nutrigenomics for Glowing, Wrinkle-Free Skin and Radiant Health at ...

By: M.D. Nicholas Perricone

Atria

Dr. Perricone’s FOREVER YOUNG makes an extraordinary promise: by following a program designed to decrease wrinkles and dramatically improve the appearance of the skin, the reader is also guaranteed more energy, less fat and an improved mood. The core of Dr. Perricone’s appeal is his scientific grounding and authority. In a field notorious for the triumph of style over substance, Dr. Perricone is at the cutting edge of new science which is scientifically proven to work. At the core of the new book is an exciting new science on skin: Nutrigenomics and gene expression. With his innovative vision, Dr. Perricone has applied the new science to ease wrinkles, make the skin supple, smooth and glowing. His prescriptive program will shave years off the reader's appearance and w...

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fi...

By: Gretchen Rubin

Harper

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

By: Nicholas Carr

W. W. Norton & Company

The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?

Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”from the alphab...

Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too! (Hyperion)

By: Teresa Giudice, Heather Maclean

Hyperion

Eat Spaghetti and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans

To many of us, "diet" is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what's a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do?

Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey credits her knockout figure to her Old World upbringing. And now, in her fun, encouraging, and budget-friendly cookbook, she skewers the myth that looking fabulous has to be a chore.

In Skinny Italian, she reveals how to:

• substitute tedious meal plans with simple, flavorful recipes

The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook

By: Jillian Michaels

Clarkson Potter

COOKING COMPANION TO MASTER YOUR METABOLISM

Master Your Metabolism, the phenomenal diet bestseller by Jillian Michaels, has been helping millions of people become hotter and healthier without their having to obsess over food or exercise. The key is ditching fad diets and chemical-filled Franken-foods in order to optimize your metabolic function and maximize your overall health.

Through the Master Your Metabolism plan, Jillian has taught readers how to balance their hormones naturally so their bodies become energetic, thriving, fat-burning machines.

Now Jillian makes it even easier for you by bringing the Master program right into your kitchen. With more than 125 recipes specifically designed for the Master Diet and including health tips tailored to ...

The Belly Fat Cure Sugar & Carb Counter: Discover which foods will melt up to 9 lbs. this week

By: Jorge Cruise

Hay House

Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Broadway

The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.

Shes one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But shes no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husband's infidelity became public fodder. And her own life has been on the line. Days before the 2004 presidential electionwhen her husband John was running for vice pr...

The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or ...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Viking Adult

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Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achie...

By: Peter J. D'Adamo

Putnam Adult

Outline If you've ever wondered why the latest fad diet doesn't work for you... well, there are lots of reasons, mostly the fact that it's a fad diet. But it could also be that you're the wrong blood

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet D...

By: Sally Fallon

NewTrends Publishing

A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling messageanimal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods. Paperback by Sally Fallon