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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning...
3) The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
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English
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"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired...
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English
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"From the writer of the popular self-help book The Honest Enneagram comes a deeper dive into all nine types of the enneagram personality structure and what they can teach us about ourselves. With poetry and essays for each type, The Enneagram Letters teaches its readers to embrace the full range of the humanc experience"--
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Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A little dolphin learns that whatever path you choose in life, following your heart means you can't go wrong. A heartwarming and important message about trusting your instincts and believing in yourself.
8) Vergüenza
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Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Describes what embarrassment is and offers suggestions on ways to cope with those feelings.
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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Useful Belief turns the "be positive" industry upside down with a fresh and modern approach to achievement. Sometimes things in life are not positive. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. If you've had a nightmare of a year, the last thing you want to hear is "Be positive!" Instead, you need an actual strategy to dig yourself out, and a truly useful guidebook to show you where to go next. This is that guidebook. Through the engaging tale of...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Author, inventor, and futurist, Ray Kurzweil, ties in current neuroscience research, thought experiments, and artificial intelligence inventions to present his theory on the basic algorithm of the neocortex. Presenting a thesis called pattern recognition theory of the mind (PRTM), Kurzweil details the true nature of both biological and nonbiolgical intelligence while shedding light on consciousness, free will, and identity. This fascinating study...
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Series
The adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 21
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sophie Mouse helps a self-conscious firefly discover the beauty of his bright glow just in time for him to perform with his Lightning Bug troupe.
13) Just like Millie
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English
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"When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small. On their daily walks, Millie isn't afraid...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"En esta nueva obra, Consciencia, Alejandra Llamas nos revela los secretos de los grandes maestros espirituales para vivir con la mente despierta. A través de sus páginas la autora nos acompaña a salir de la confusión ocasionada por la programación no cuestionada y las emociones reprimidas. La confusión nos lleva a la reacción, mientras que la toma de conciencia nos lleva a la libertad mental y emocional. Este libro nos recuerda que cualquier...
15) Manatee summer
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English
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"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
16) Becoming the one: heal your past, transform your relationship patterns, and come home to yourself
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English
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"Spiritual leader, and founder of Rising Woman, the popular online community of over 2.1 Million, Sheleana Aiyana's BECOMING THE ONE is a practical, spiritual and inner-work journey to break free of the relationship patterns that keep you in a cycle of unhappiness and come home to the self. In the vein of Calling in "The One" (125K copies sold), and Melody Beattie's Codependent No More (1.2M copies sold), Sheleana empowers readers to reclaim their...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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It's the first day of school for Zoe, a young girl with hearing loss who dreams of playing on her school's soccer team. But, self-conscious of her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out. With the help of and perspectives from new friends, what begins as a bumpy, anxiety-filled start for Zoe, soon transitions into an eye-opening experience about what it means to be different--and what it means to be extraordinary. I Am Extraordinary teaches kids...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
Español
Description
La investigación muestra que la conciencia de uno mismo--saber quiénes somos y cómo nos ven los demás--es el fundamento para un alto rendimiento, unas decisiones inteligentes, y unas relaciones personales duraderas. Solo existe un problema: la mayoría de las personas no se ven a sí mismas con tanta claridad como podrían hacerlo. Felizmente, la psicóloga organizacional Tasha Eurich revela que la conciencia de uno mismo es una habilidad sorprendentemente...
19) Braced
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English
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When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
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English
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"Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The bestselling author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world." -- From Amazon.com summary.
In this book, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment...
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