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"Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to John Cage, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms-from the aphorism to the note-and give new life to knowledge's...
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Guidance on Finding the Fullness of Life in the Here and Now What is time? We give it so much importance, but as Eckhart Tolle teaches, we can only ever experience the timeless present. The Illusion of Time explores this paradox, pointing the way out of a dysfunctional relationship to time-and into the fullness of life in the here and now. In this empowering two-session program, Eckhart exposes the roots of our obsession with time to help us free...
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Beacon Press
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[2015]
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English
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Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
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Why is it so hard to lose weight, stop smoking, or establish healthy habits? Why do couples argue about the same issues over and over? Why do so many people lie awake at night, stricken with worry and anxiety? Why is it so difficult to come to terms with a loved one's death, even if it's after a long illness?The answers to these questions - and the path to lasting change in your life - lie in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a well-tested collection
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Ideapress Publishing
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[2020]
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English
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"Why do virtual meetings usually suck and how can you make yours better? What are the five secrets to delivering a compelling virtual presentation? How can you collaborate with people you have never met in real life? Most guides to virtual work pretend like it is better than being face to face. It usually isn't. But what if you're stuck working virtually and remotely because you just can't be there? From parental leave to travel costs to global pandemics,...
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The Teaching Company
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[2016]
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English
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Great investors like Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio will tell you they're no geniuses; they're simply observant, open-minded, and industrious. Using these key traits, the world's most outstanding traders have employed a remarkable mix of strategies to build huge fortunes. Their careers are a how-to manual for anyone who wants to succeed at investing. The lives of rich and famous investors are gripping tales of opportunities seized and squandered; of...
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Teaching Co
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Interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. Explains how little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.
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The Teaching Company
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[2017]
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English
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Receive a fundamental education in American law from four exceptional lawyers and professors.
To many people, the law is both powerful and mysterious. We depend on lawyers to help us navigate rules, standards, and procedural codes that have been around for hundreds of years. Because we depend on their specialized skills in argumentation, logic, and critical thinking, we may wonder how they come to know so much about the inner workings of the law....
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"To understand the roots of personality is to understand motivations and influences that shape behavior, which in turn reflect how you deal with the opportunities and challenges of everyday life. That's the focus of these exciting 24 lectures, in which you examine the differences in people's personalities, where these differences come from, and how they shape our lives. Drawing on information gleaned from psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, Professor...
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[Lincoln Academy]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Come to Bemis Hall on Monday, February 24 at 12:30 pm when Judith Ann Foster, PhD discusses "The Obesity Epidemic: Why We Must Get the Science Right." Currently, more than two-thirds of all adults and nearly one-third of all children and youth in the United States are overweight. More than a third of the country is now obese, making the U.S. one of the fattest countries in an increasingly fat world. Mounting research, including a 2016 study...
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