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Pub. Date
2021.
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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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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain, outlining the controversial implications of increasing intelligence in order to address global problems while comparing emotional and moral intelligence and considering the origins of consciousness.
8) Join
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Is following your passion the key to personal and professional success? Your average self-help book or motivational speaker would likely respond to this question with a resounding YES and proceed to offer a detailed how-to guide to finding that passion and living up to it. Unfollow Your Passion does the unconventional opposite. In the spirit of Pixar's Soul, it encourages you to consider what you lose when you get laser-focused on a single pursuit....
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fleming shows that those frustrating moments of knowledge just beyond our grasp aren't some kind of design flaw in our minds. Surprisingly, they are actually examples of our brain's greatest power. Scientists and philosophers call it metacognition, but you might just call it the ability to think about our own minds. Metacognition enables us to answer questions as straightforward as what skills we need to practice or what facts we need to study to...
11) I believe in me
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Publisher
Templar Publishing, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A baby crocodile learns that believing in yourself can open up a whole new world!
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Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Myung Sung introduces the Korean art of living meditation as the way to achieve a life of balance and happiness. Using eight simple keys, readers can enjoy all the calming, positive benefits of meditation in every minute of every day.
15) Bouncing back from rejection: build the resilience you need to get back up when life knocks you down
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Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Publisher
El Grano de Mostaza
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Esta obra se ha inspirado en la observación de una realidad: los seres humanos estamos experimentando una toma de conciencia nueva y más amplia. Nuestra mente se está abriendo a una búsqueda en la que interaccionan, con el fin de retroalimentarse, la espiritualidad y distintos aspectos de la ciencia, como la física, la psicología y la biología. La física cuántica explica que el observador puede alterar lo observado. De algún modo, el mundo...
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Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a world filled with commitments, a young girl decides to take a day just to herself, filling it with all the activities that maker her happy and center her soul, from having a picnic with her teddy bear to working on her warrior pose. Maybe tomorrow she'll take over the world, but Today is a me day.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Real love starts with you. In order to attract a life partner and build a healthy intimate relationship, you must first become a good partner to yourself. This book offers twenty invaluable lessons that will help you explore and commit to your own emotional and psychological well-being so you can be ready, resilient, and confident in love. Many of us enter into romantic relationships full of expectation and hope, only to be sorely disappointed by...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
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