Raise the bar to become the best version of you?and have fun doing it As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally and professionally. We...  more

Raise the bar to become the best version of you?and have fun doing it As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally and professionally. We choose not to pursue our greatest ambitions because we feel we are incapable of reaching them. But he has also found that we are each born with the fundamental abilities to live the full, creative, dynamic life we dream about. These are our five inner resources: Curiosity, Openness, Sensuality, Paradox, and Self-Story. In this compelling book, Deutsch shows us how to access and use them to open our lives to unimagined possibilities. Filled with great stories and interviews with inspiring people, including Wynton Marsalis, Richard Feynman, and Anna Quindlen, The 5 Essentials will appeal to readers of The Element and The Tools. It opens the door to a way of being more alive than you have ever been.

In a world filled with too many choices, oppressive technology, and relentlessly overbooked schedules?how do we achieve the calm we so desperately need? Our ancestors used the fight-or-flight mechanism to protect themselves from predators. Today, we use it to fend off daily crises. The result...  more

In a world filled with too many choices, oppressive technology, and relentlessly overbooked schedules?how do we achieve the calm we so desperately need? Our ancestors used the fight-or-flight mechanism to protect themselves from predators. Today, we use it to fend off daily crises. The result is chronic stress and a learned inability to be calm which, in turn, makes it impossible for us to perform at our peak. Now, Dr. Gayatri Devi shows how we can cultivate empowering, enduring calm by tapping into our body?s vagus nerve?and utilize our hardwired, natural relaxation system. If you are suffering from migraines, neck pain, gastrointestinal upsets, sleeps deprivation?or are just trying to work through life?s difficulties?Dr. Devi shows that you don?t need more drugs, you need A Calm Brain. ?For anyone who wants to take charge of the 21st century while remaining calm, focused, and productive?this is the book for you.? ?Henry S. Lodge, New York Times bestselling author of Younger Next Year

Why aren't you living the life of your dreams? Unrealized potential can be a source of constant frustration, holding you back and creating days that seem to lack solid meaning. What would it take to wake up and recognize your worth? Peter Hobler's Courage to Find the Fire Within empowers...  more

Why aren't you living the life of your dreams? Unrealized potential can be a source of constant frustration, holding you back and creating days that seem to lack solid meaning. What would it take to wake up and recognize your worth? Peter Hobler's Courage to Find the Fire Within empowers readers to move past their subconscious fears, setting them firmly on the path to success. Accomplish clarity when it comes to your destination with the same perceptive insight that has led many towards the large and small goal finish line. Be inspired as you take in real success stories and develop the mindset of a winner in your personal and business life, with advice from this sure-footed leader. Get closer to your dreams than you've ever imagined by applying the 7 Principles of COURAGE skill sets and suggestions. As you begin to replace fear with more productive character traits, such as excellence and gratitude, an awareness of your ultimate excellence will emerge, increasing your momentum to the point of becoming virtually unstoppable.

The murder trial that outraged a nation-now with a new afterword. In 1973, at age 18, Peter Reilly discovered his mother murdered-and was sentenced to jail after a false confession was extracted. No motive, physical evidence, or eyewitnesses linked him to the crime. This is the story of his...  more

The murder trial that outraged a nation-now with a new afterword. In 1973, at age 18, Peter Reilly discovered his mother murdered-and was sentenced to jail after a false confession was extracted. No motive, physical evidence, or eyewitnesses linked him to the crime. This is the story of his ordeal with a new afterword on how it has affected the justice system today.

Jodi Picoult wraps another stirring melodramatic plot around a misunderstood modern affliction in this tale of Jacob Hunt, an 18-year-old murder suspect who has Asperger's Syndrome. Jacob's mother Emma and his little brother Theo have gradually become reluctant satellites of Jacob...  more

Jodi Picoult wraps another stirring melodramatic plot around a misunderstood modern affliction in this tale of Jacob Hunt, an 18-year-old murder suspect who has Asperger's Syndrome. Jacob's mother Emma and his little brother Theo have gradually become reluctant satellites of Jacob and his condition, forced to make unwanted adjustments to their own lives in order to better suit his needs. Jacob is obsessed with forensic science, and has the odd habit of appearing at crime scenes and bombarding the investigators with unwanted advice. At the sight of one particularly heinous crime, Jacob's criminal insights prove to be a bit too precise, and he is soon charged with murder. The situation is compounded when Jacob's lack of emotion, his social awkwardness, and his involuntary tics are read as the callous reactions of a psychopath. Emma's only hope of saving her son lies in the hands of a young attorney who must not only combat the prosecution's convincing evidence, but also his own client's tendencies to make himself appear guilty.

Includes ten true stories about detectives and crime scene investigators as they use forensic science to capture criminals.

Can you imagine being in high school or college and suddenly learning you have cancer?  You thought you had a lifetime ahead of you and the whole world at your feet, but suddenly you're told...maybe not.  How would you cope? That's the question each of the people in this book had to...  more

Can you imagine being in high school or college and suddenly learning you have cancer?  You thought you had a lifetime ahead of you and the whole world at your feet, but suddenly you're told...maybe not.  How would you cope? That's the question each of the people in this book had to answer.  Each individual tells his or her amazing story, in an honest, first-person perspective that provides a depth you would never see otherwise.  Inside, you'll meet Zac York, who tells of climbing Mount Whitney--on crutches--after battling brain cancer.  You'll meet Jessica Myers, who had to cope with her boyfriend's callous reaction as she struggled with thyroid cancer.  And you'll meet Rob Dooley, who fought brain cancer and was left with major cognitive deficits--including short-term memory loss--but never let that get in his way of obtaining a college diploma and entering graduate school. You'll also get to know and come to love seventeen others, who tell their captivating stories in their own words.  It's all here--struggles, triumphs, friendships, love, breakups, relapses. Twenty unique and fascinating stories, with one common theme--childhood cancer.   They'll make you smile, make you cry, and fill you with hope.

In his new book, Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., author of the best-selling book The Worry Cure, turns his attention to anxiety. Leahy looks at the origin of anxiety and teaches you how to outsmart your fears for a less stressful life. He lays out the symptoms associated with some of the most common...  more

In his new book, Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., author of the best-selling book The Worry Cure, turns his attention to anxiety. Leahy looks at the origin of anxiety and teaches you how to outsmart your fears for a less stressful life. He lays out the symptoms associated with some of the most common anxiety disorders, including panic and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress and provides simple, step-by-step guides to help you overcome the fears associated with each of these. Anxiety Free explores how preprogrammed rules of reaction, which are a product of the evolutionary process, keep us in the grip of anxiety. For each anxiety disorder, Leahy shows how our fears and unchallenged assumptions stand in the way of our freedom.       Using Leahy’s methods, which are based on the best psychological treatments available, you will be able to work toward a life free from the apprehension, tension, and avoidance associated with anxiety.

Discover what achievers all over the world are realizing. The story you created about yourself early in life, which is part fiction, is having a dramatic impact on your present lifestyle--how you think and live. The assumption that all capable people in our culture have peace of mind and are...  more

Discover what achievers all over the world are realizing. The story you created about yourself early in life, which is part fiction, is having a dramatic impact on your present lifestyle--how you think and live. The assumption that all capable people in our culture have peace of mind and are satisfied with their life course is commonplace. Is this notion true? Not always. In fact millions have fallen prey to a belief system that says appearance and status provide the golden road to love and respect. In an attempt to perfect themselves, they are hiding their self doubt through constant achievement at the cost of losing balance and well-being. Suffering from being overwhelmed emotionally and physically, exhausted and fatigued, often with the health complications of being overweight; they have felt deeply disappointed. The Curse of the Capable describes how a biased view of yourself can lead to a fragile sense of self, addictive thinking and behavior, and a seemingly mysterious downward spiral that the majority of people can’t see or untangle.

How can it be that you receive dozens of personal e-mails or texts every day but have nothing to do come Saturday night? Or that you?re constantly juggling a jam-packed schedule while always feeling that something essential is missing? Who the heck took the social out of your social life?Jeanne...  more

How can it be that you receive dozens of personal e-mails or texts every day but have nothing to do come Saturday night? Or that you?re constantly juggling a jam-packed schedule while always feeling that something essential is missing? Who the heck took the social out of your social life?Jeanne Martinet, the celebrated author of The Art of Mingling, solves these mysteries and more in Life Is Friends. With an attitude that?s savvy, sympathetic, and down-to-earth, Martinet gives you the game plan for relearning the lost art of socializing. Forget texting, IMing, Facebook, and Internet ?relationships.? When it comes to building real friendships, she says, there?s simply no substitute for live, in-person hospitality.Martinet offers a full gamut of strategies and techniques for socializing, from making that first connection with someone to maintaining a long-term relationship. And she focuses on entertaining?whether it?s a dinner party or an informal get-together, a cocktail party or a monthly card game?because sharing one?s home and lifestyle is the most important element in nurturing friendships. Brimming with generous amounts of wit, all-too-true stories, and advice that?s both pithy and practical, Life Is Friends gets us back on the path to social success and satisfaction. So read what Martinet has to say. And then, go ahead: Invite people over.

Feeling stuck on autopilot, or totally off course? What if you could go back to key points in your life and ask different questions of yourself and others to change where you are today? Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Laura Atchison had it all--a great career, a successful business,...  more

Feeling stuck on autopilot, or totally off course? What if you could go back to key points in your life and ask different questions of yourself and others to change where you are today? Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Laura Atchison had it all--a great career, a successful business, ambitious goals, and a loving family--when she realized she was off course. Instead of achieving the life she was meant to live, she had been stuck on autopilot--plodding through the life others wanted her to live.  By failing to ask the right questions of herself and others, her life had taken the wrong direction.  Explore Atchison?s riveting and candid story to see the parallel struggles all women share--and the opportunities all women possess to learn and grow beyond their wildest dreams. Learn the right questions to ask in career, family, relationships, spiritual life, finances, and more. Unlock the life you were meant to have. Get back on course, and stay there. Begin asking different questions starting today?as a Wise Woman. If these people could have reviewed this book, this is what they might have said: "Laura?s on fire" ? Joan of Arc "If I had Laura to guide me I might not have gotten lost" ? Amelia Earhart "Maybe if we had asked how it could end differently than the others we would have kept our heads!" ? The Beheaded Wives of Henry VIII "If I had read this book, I might not have dated Marc Antony" ? Cleopatra "Laura?s advice is as indispensable as a thimble" ? Betsy Ross "Laura found the knowledge I was seeking" ? Eve

We all have the basic ingredients for a happy and fulfilling life, yet how many of us follow the recipe?  Points To Ponder: Pathways to Self-Discovery discusses different aspects of our daily lives that lead us down the wrong path.  More than just positive thinking, the author reveals the things...  more

We all have the basic ingredients for a happy and fulfilling life, yet how many of us follow the recipe?  Points To Ponder: Pathways to Self-Discovery discusses different aspects of our daily lives that lead us down the wrong path.  More than just positive thinking, the author reveals the things that people do to make their lives harder than they have to be.   Discussing ideas from different perspectives, each chapter provides ideas to consider in improving our lives one step at a time.

Written in an unexpectedly witty and self-deprecating style, Dr. Hollis recounts some humbling learning experiences, such as her nerve-racking first appearance on Oprah that caused her to vow never to do TV again, and an uncomfortable stay at a Buddhist Monastery, where she had finagled her way...  more

Written in an unexpectedly witty and self-deprecating style, Dr. Hollis recounts some humbling learning experiences, such as her nerve-racking first appearance on Oprah that caused her to vow never to do TV again, and an uncomfortable stay at a Buddhist Monastery, where she had finagled her way into the last week of a three-week meditation workshop. Her story entertains with many more comical moments, even as it tackles a serious, sometimes life-or-death, subject.