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Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"On the edge of burnout, Vern decides to return to his family in the Sunshine State to start over. Starting a new dead-end job as a custodian at Quasar -- a local science facility with a shady motive -- he shrugs on his uniform, grabs a mop and bucket, and trudges off to clean up... Black holes? Space-time anomalies? Galactic ooze? Things aren't entirely what they seem at Quasar, and when Vern accidentally plugs in a mysterious machine and finds himself...
Author
Publisher
Legacy
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Women of color and children of immigrants have a different experience when climbing the ladder toward success. Throughout her career, bestselling author and MSNBC producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo was driven to land a good job, achieve the American Dream, and make her family proud. As an undocumented immigrant from Chile, she went through her high school and college years in the shadows, working in the back of kitchens and selling cosmetics door-to-door...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first of two essential books about our most complex organ -- the brain -- dives deep into why people all over the world are suffering with mental health and brain-related symptoms and conditions. In this book, find answers to 100+ symptoms, diseases, and disorders. With the advanced state of brain research today, it's easy to think that we're arming ourselves with knowledge about how best to care for our precious minds and brains. Are we? Or is...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, and shows how we can expand our circle of care, even in these divisive times Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren't just like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States is suffering from an "empathy...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Leaders everywhere recognized the validity of resonant leadership, but struggled with how to achieve and sustain resonance amid the relentless demands of work and life. Now, the authors provide an indispensable guide to overcoming the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance that afflicts many leaders. Drawing from extensive multidisciplinary research and real-life stories, this book offers a field-tested framework for creating the resonance...
67) Trans care
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion? Trans Care is a critical intervention in the ways that care labor and care ethics have heretofore been thought, arguing that dominant modes of conceiving and critiquing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the top-earning woman, the rules are different. She faces a much higher risk for burnout, infidelity, and divorce. Farnoosh Torabi presents a bold strategy that not only addresses how income imbalances affect relationships and family dynamics, but also how a woman can best manage this unique circumstance.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two physicians unveil a revolutionary, accessible, science-based, patient-centered program for living an active, age-defying, disease-free life. Healthcare is pulled and shaped by many forces, by drug and insurance companies looking for profits, by politicians in search of votes, and by stressed, overworked physicians who barely have time to talk to you before writing a prescription or packing you off to a specialist. So is anyone interested in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An impassioned generational perspective on why climate anxiety is completely natural and necessary, and how we can be stronger for it. Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise everywhere, with few resources to address them. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to paralysis, burnout and avoidance. In Generation Dread, Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these complicated...
Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An interactive journal showing the reader how to feel better at work, be more productive, more positive, more resilient. The book is illustrated throughout with interactive activities, journal prompts and a structured programme of self-care for the workplace. Burnout is described by the WHO as: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from your job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to your job; reduced professional...
73) Base notes
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In New York City everybody needs a side hustle, and perfumer Vic Fowler has developed a delicate art that has proved to be very lucrative: creating bespoke scents that evoke immersive memories-memories that, for Vic's clients, are worth killing for. But the city is expensive, and these days even artisanal murder doesn't pay the bills. When Joseph Eisner, a former client with deep pockets, offers Vic an opportunity to expand the enterprise, the money...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media Group, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
With over 11 million users and thousands more signing on every month, SparkPeople.com is the number one healthy-living website in America. SparkPeople's Coach Nicole leads these four fat-blasting, calorie-torching workouts with her trademark enthusiasm and positive energy. Features a 28-day workout plan customized by Coach Nicole. Includes a variety of high-energy cardio intervals mixed with full body strengthening exercises to banish burnout.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The book is intended as a guide for education leaders who are struggling with the difficult feelings (inadequacy, frustration, burnout) that surface as a result of their roles and responsibilities. It draws on mindfulness practice and Buddhist-influenced psychology to create a step-by-step process for dealing with difficult emotions"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Outlines a revisionist approach to weight loss that offers two hundred different solutions for initial goals, explaining how to incorporate customized, permanent changes to prevent early burnout while sharing dietary plans for every meal of the day.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An experienced healer and Five Elements acupuncturist offers the opportunity to discover the power of using essential oils with ancient acupressure techniques in this engaging self-care guide for healing 24 common ailments. Fast, easy, and fun, Acupressure with Essential Oils empowers you to take control of your health to dissolve tension patterns, relieve symptoms and pain, and rediscover an integrated sense of self. Author Merina Ty-Kisera introduces...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Make room for your dreams and revolutionize how you manage your time and energy using this innovative framework for finding work-life harmony from an accomplished entrepreneur and business strategist. Throughout her multifaceted career, Tina Wells has always found a way to transform her dreams into reality. She turned a business that she launched at sixteen into an award-winning marketing agency, led boardroom meetings as the youngest (and sometimes...
Series
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penquin, a memeber of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a...
Series
Reference shelf volume 94, no. 2
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
According to data collected by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), nearly one in five Americans lives with some kind of behavioral illness, and one in twenty suffer from what is called "serious behavioral illness." Behavioral health issues are common, affecting more than 50 million Americans at any time. Many millions more experience mental and behavioral health issues indirectly, through friends, family, or in performing their jobs. Many...
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