Saving our own lives

Saving Our Own Lives

A comprehensive collection of intergenerational voices on Liberatory Harm Reduction, mutual aid, and building community to save lives.

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K?hkominawak Ot?cimowiniw?wa / Our Grandmothers' Lives as Told in Their Own Words

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Saving the Modern Soul

Examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. This book examines a range of sources

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Pulling Your Own Strings

Wayne Dyer shows how each of us can stop being victimized by others and operate from a position of power at the center of our own lives. Asserting that we alone are responsible for how much we will be controlled by others, Dyer offers his practical plan for developing new attitudes toward the most common sources of victimization and manipulation.

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Our Secrets and Lies - neuveden

Anotace: `Moriarty [tackles] uncomfortable and painful subjects, weaving them into compelling thought-provoking stories ... heartfelt and deeply moving` Irish Independent The new novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club author and Number One Bestseller! When her children are offered a scholarship to a prestigious school Lucy Murphy is ecstatic. Her plan for a glitterin...

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Peak Mind : Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day - Jha Amishi P.

Anotace: From the constant pull of technology to the 24-hour news cycle to the overwhelming demands of work, our ability to concentrate is being strained as never before. We`re all suffering from a collective attention deficit disorder that is leaving us feeling scattered, overwhelmed, and anxious - yet unable to resist distractions like emails, Zoom calls, or new texts ...

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Shakespeare´s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio - Laoutaris Chris

Anotace: `A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed`FINANCIAL TIMES `This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It`s a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader. ...

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Shakespeare´s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio - Chris Laoutaris

<p>'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader...

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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way - Kieran Setiya

<p>Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striv...

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Transformer

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end?

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Transformer

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end?

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Meditation

Our individual lives can only be completed by their becoming at one with something far greater and more beautiful than our own limited being. This boo

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Children Like Us: Homes Around the World

Our world is full of amazing things! Explore the unique ways of different cultures and compare other people's lives with your own.

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Five Levels of Attachment

Explores the ways in which we attach ourselves inappropriately to beliefs and the world. This book looks at our own lives and see how an unhealthy lev

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Be Extraordinary

A road map for change that uses the lessons we can learn from survivors of trauma to make a dramatic difference in our own lives, to transform ordinar

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Mystical Hope

In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and

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Making It Up

Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own

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Strange Glow

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammo

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How to want and get everything (but it's inaccurate)

This book is about how to cut off the superfluous and find your own way. All in all, it depends on us how we live our own lives. This may be a little

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In Love With Death

Death is the inevitable fate of every single person on earth. How do we accept the inevitability of our own death? How do we live our lives with meani

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Public library and other stories

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of ou

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Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Acclaimed writer and pastor Timothy Keller grapples with the age-old question: how do we deal with pain and suffering, both in our own lives and in th

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Fall of Public Man

Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for individuals to partic

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Be The Change - Be Kind

Kindness is cool! It can create positive change in all our lives. Be the Change: Be Kind is your handbook on how to use your own voice to empower you

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Slaughter-House-Five (0440180295)

Kniha - autor Kurt Vonnegut, 216 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná "Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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Slaughterhouse 5 : The Children´s Crusade - A Duty-Dance with Death - Kurt Vonnegut junior

<p>Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.</p>

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Haru´s Curse - Konishi Asuka

Anotace: After the funeral, Natsumi reluctantly agrees to date her sister´s fiancé Togo. But as their relationship develops with the passing seasons, Haru´s memory lingers over them like a curse.Asuka Konishi´s English-language debut is a nuanced and affecting portrait of the conflict between romantic and familial love, and of the hard choices that face us all in making ...

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10 Mindful Minutes

Teaching Our Children to Help Themselves Be Happy Practical, timely, relevant, and inspiring, 10 Mindful Minutes is Goldie Hawn's gift to parents who want to help their children learn better and live happier lives. Inspired by the revolutionary MindUP program (developed under the auspices of the Hawn Foundation), the book offers easy-to-grasp insights from current behav...

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Practising The Power Of Now - Tolle Eckhart

Anotace: Eckhart Tolle`s book describes the experience of heightenedconsciousness that radically transformed his life - and shows howby living in the moment we can also reach a higher state of beingwhere we can find joy and peace and where problems do not exist.The invaluable companion volume - PRACTISING THE POWER OF NOW -contains all the essential techniques we need to...

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The Heart of Therapy Taylor & Francis Ltd

This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives. This book will be a thought-provoking read for trainee and practising counsellors and psychotherapists, or anyone looking for self-reflection on their own...

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The Heart of Therapy Taylor & Francis Ltd

This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives. This book will be a thought-provoking read for trainee and practising counsellors and psychotherapists, or anyone looking for self-reflection on their own...

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The impact of interior design on hospital cleaning

Evidence- based design is commonly recognized as the best practice for the interior design of healthcare facilities. Research indicates that careful planning and design can have a positive effect on hospital staff and patient outcome. However, there is a lack of existing research on how interior design effects the cleaning of healthcare facilities. More research is needed...

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Reading Lessons - Carol Atherton

<p>An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.</p> <p>How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can Lady Macbeth teach us about empathy? Should our expectations for our future be any greater than Pip’s? And why is it s...

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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (1408881683)

Kniha - autor Elizabeth Gilbert, 276 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, this beloved author digs deep into her own life to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she ponders the mysterious nature of inspirat...

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Bittersweet (059344339X)

Kniha - autor Susan Cain, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Each chapter helps us navigate an issue that define our lives, from love to death and from authenticity to creativity. Using examples ranging from music and cinema to parenting and business, as well as her own life and the latest academic research, she shows how understanding bittersweetness will...

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Drive : The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Pink Daniel H.

Anotace: A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today`s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to le...

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Slaughterhouse 5 : The Children´s Crusade - A Duty-Dance with Death - Vonnegut Kurt

Anotace: One of the very best anti-war novels ever written. Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second W...

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Practising The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle

<p>Eckhart Tolle's book describes the experience of heightened consciousness that radically transformed his life - and shows how by living in the moment we can also reach a higher state of being where we can find joy and peace and where problems do not exist. The invaluable companion volume - PRACTISING THE POWER OF NOW - contains all the essential techniques we nee...

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Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

<p>'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wil...

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Isabel Wilkerson - Caste

'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson re...

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (0553384619)

Kniha - autor Alice Schroeder, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Alice Schroeder, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer's questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates-opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage,...

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Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15) - Terry Pratchett

<p>'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year' Sunday ExpressThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .__________________'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The re...

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Live Beautiful

From celebrated design expert and interior designer Athena Calderone, a look into how creatives decorate their spaces Beautiful design isn’t just pleasant to look at; it improves the quality of our lives. In Live Beautiful, the highly anticipated design book by Athena Calderone, the EyeSwoon creator taps into her international network of interior decorators, fashion desig...

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Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life (1788162064)

Kniha - autor Ryan Holiday, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world. ...

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Stillness is the Key : An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life - Holiday Ryan

Anotace: Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.Drawing on a wide range of history`s greatest thinkers, Holiday shows u...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Kandinsky Wassily

Anotace: A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art`s traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revo...

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Hannibal and Me

The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 BCE, is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his Roman enemies made on the battlefield and in life offer timeless lessons to us today about how we should respond to our own victories and defeats. Inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the triumphs and disast...

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Stillness is the Key : An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life - Ryan Holiday

<p>Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows ...

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Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence - Calvo Paco

Anotace: `A joy to read ... mind-expanding` Book of the Week, Guardian`A bold and brave paean to our planet`s ligneous, leafy kingdom` Telegraph`An impressive exploration and dazzling insight into the lives of plants` Reaction Book Digest What is it like to be a plant?It`s not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Sci...

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Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility &amp; the Meaning of Life - Viktor Emanuel Frankl

<p>'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The ChoiceAn inspirational new collection on turning tragedy into triumph by Holocaust survivor and multi-million copy bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning.During his lifetime, world renowned psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor Viktor...

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The Amazing Book is Not on Fire - The World of Dan and Phil - Dan Howell

<p>Hello reader! In this book is a world. A world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet! We are Dan and Phil and we invite you on a journey inside our minds! From the stories of our actual births, to exploring Phil’s teenage diary and all the reasons why Dan’s a fail. Learn how to draw the perfect cat whiskers, get advice on how to mak...

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The Candy House - Jennifer Egan

<p>From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad. It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a ...

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A Kingdom of Blood and Betrayal - Renee Holly

Anotace: My fate is bonded to two princes- one born of blood, the other of power- but my trust lies in neither.My skin is cursed by the stars, my fate damned by desire.But when the dark prince offers me a bargain that will save his people and my life, the cruel and intoxicating male gives me no choice.Our union is his revenge, and I am his sacrifice.His lies are unforgiv...

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Laws Of Human Nature - neuveden

Anotace: Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - Browne John

Anotace: Today`s unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth`s climate to th...

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The Laws of Human Nature, 1. vydání - Robert Greene

<p>Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene

<p>From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious o...

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The Laws of Human Nature, 1. vydání - Robert Greene

<p>From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of a...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne

<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...

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