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Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Daniel G. Amen
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Archetype (2012, Feb 14th).
Pages: 352
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH IS BETWEEN YOUR EARS.A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen shares ten simple steps to boost your brain to help youlive longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease.Over the last twenty years at Amen Clinics, Dr. Amen has performed more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from ninety different countries. His brain imaging work has taughthim that our brains typically become less active with age and we become more vulnerable tomemory problems and depression. Yet, one of the most exciting lessons he has learned is thatwith a little forethought and a brain-smart plan, you can slow, or even reverse, the aging process in the brain. more
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Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Martha Beck
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press (2011, Dec 27th).
Pages: 272
Many people feel called to help others and change the world, but they just don’t know how to fulfill their potential. They have the creativity and passion, but often get lost, not knowing how to direct their energies. Now, popular life coach Martha Beck shows how readers can find their calling in service and healing—while realizing their destiny. With a sparkling, compassionate, and often irreverent style, Beck draws from a combination of ancient wisdom and modern science to help readers consciously embrace vital skills that may be embedded in our DNA and are now made accessible again. Beck shows how to put together an “inner team” and an external “tribe” of people with the same aims and outlines four simple Steps for Transformation: Wordlessness, Oneness, Imagination, and Creation. more
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Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Henry Alford
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelve (2012, Jan 3rd).
Pages: 256
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The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: P.M. Forni
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2011, Sep 13th).
Pages: 192
Professor Forni, founder of The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, is America's civility expert. In his first two books, Choosing Civility and The Civility Solution, he taught readers the rules of civil behavior and ways of responding to rudeness. Now, in The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance of thinking in our lives: how we do it, why we don't do enough of it and why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he gives readers a remedy for the Age of Distraction, an age fuelled by the internet, Blackberries and cellphones, all of which make constant demands on our attention, diverting it from one thing to another. After suggesting ways we can find time to think more, Forni shows readers how we can improve our abilities of:—Attention—Reflection—Introspection—Self-control—Positive thinking—Proactive thinking—Effective decision-making strategies—Creative thinking—Problem-solving strategiesJust as he did with civility, he puts the importance of good thinking front and center in a book as simple and as profound as his earlier works. more
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