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April 22, 2021

The Read-Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease (children's speech education)

The Read-Aloud Handbook is a classic reading guidebook that brings together concrete and credible case studies that aim to exhaustively discuss the role, methods, and considerations of reading aloud. Meanwhile, the book touch...

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April 22, 2021

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Au…

According to the World Health Organization, a child with ASD is born every 20 minutes worldwide. Most people on the autism spectrum have difficulty interacting with others because those people cannot express themselves in a w...

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April 22, 2021

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from…

Why do some couples stay happily married for a lifetime while others have many crises in their marriage? Based on the data accumulated through years of marriage research, this book analyzes people's common misunderstandings a...

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April 22, 2021

The Tapping Solution, Nick Ortner (acupoint tapping, stress reliefing…

Have you had any bad experiences in the past? If so, do they affect your present life? After reading The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-free Living by Nick Ortner, a top healing master, you’ll find that m...

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April 22, 2021

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and W…

Kelly McGonigal has realized through many years of research that most people hold incorrect perceptions about willpower, which causes our self-control to falter and thus sabotages our success. Based on the latest research fro...

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April 22, 2021

Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married, by Dr. Gary D. Chapman

Many couples spend a great deal of time and energy planning their wedding but turn a blind eye to the significance of preparing for marriage. Some married people pay a high price for not preparing well. You should know that …

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April 22, 2021

To Have or To Be? The Nature of the Psyche, by Erich Fromm (German-Am…

Having and being are two very different ways of life. In the having way of life, people always need to possess external goods to prove that their existence has meaning. The being way of life encourages that one takes an …

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April 22, 2021

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love …

Parents usually apply rewards and punishments when raising and educating their children. However, Kohn believes that this is a kind of control in the name of love or, in other words, conditional parenting. He believes that pa...

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April 22, 2021

Understanding Media The Extensions of Man, by Marshall Mcluhan

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan shifts our attention from the content to the medium itself. The wide use of the telephone, telegraph, radio, television and other electronic media has established...

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April 22, 2021

Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods That Turned Ordinary People Int…

In 1983, two prominent traders in the U.S. futures industry disagreed over whether great futures traders were born or trained. To find the answer, they conducted an experiment known as the “turtle experiment.” The author of t...

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April 22, 2021

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir, by Haruku Mura…

The novelist Haruki Murakami started running at the age of 33. By the time he wrote this book, he had been running for about 23 years straight and ran full marathons at least once per year. The book, What I …

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April 22, 2021

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Being at the top of the food chain, humans seem to be incredibly powerful. But in the face of disease, the slightest mistake may cost us our lives. Why do humans have fevers? Why haven't myopia genes been eliminated? Why …

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April 22, 2021

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Care…

Career transitions are a common phenomenon in today's society. Often, people intend to change careers, but they don't know where to start, or they postpone their career change plans due to difficulties they encounter along th...

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April 21, 2021

A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises, Ray Dalio (Finance, Eco…

Why do economic crises happen over and over again? What role does debt play? Are there any similarities among repeated crises? Can we find their patterns and solve a crisis properly? In Dalio's view, most events happen repeat...

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April 21, 2021

Albion’s Seed, by David Hackett Fischer (American history, British f…

This book introduces four British folkways in America and identifies four cultural traditions that early English immigrants brought to North America. This book points out that four early British folkways of North America have...

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April 21, 2021

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way …

Over the years, Pixar struggled to find its direction as a company, while creating many miraculous cinematic works of art. Toy Story , Finding Nemo , Up and other Pixar animations have won around 30 Academy Awards and seven G...

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April 21, 2021

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box, by The Arbinge…

Most of the problems we encounter when dealing with interpersonal relationships are often caused by a hidden psychological factor; self-deception. Self-deception is a psychological factor that causes us to treat others as obj...

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April 21, 2021

Men's Search For Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl (Psychotherapy, WW2)

The book explores the background and theoretical implication of logotherapy by looking back at the bloody and criminal history of Nazi Germany. While looking into the meaning of rehabilitation among people in extremis, this b...

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April 21, 2021

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, by Richard Thaler (N…

In this book, misbehaving refers to the behaviors that contradict the basic assumptions of traditional economics. These are often the research subjects of behavioral economics. Traditional economics assumes that people are ra...

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April 21, 2021

No Future Without Forgiveness, by Desmond Tutu (South Africa history,…

South Africa was once a land of apartheid and the deepest racial oppression. In April 1994, a new, democratic, and free South Africa was born. To build a new South Africa, the government had to face problems left over from …

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April 21, 2021

Presence, by Amy Cuddy (How changing body postures changes psychologi…

Do you often feel powerless or experience this feeling of not being good enough when facing the pressure from work and daily life? When we feel stressed, we subconsciously strike a dejected low-power pose. This is a book that...

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April 20, 2021

Boundaries in Dating, Henry Cloud and John Townsend (romantic relatio…

When you think of dating, what comes to mind? Is it romantic candlelit dinners? Or a suitable travel companion? Regardless, not every relationship has a happy ending, and that is a predicament that countless unmarried people ...

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April 20, 2021

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (free-market, cap…

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor widening? Why is the distribution of wealth in our society becoming more and more unequal? This book argues that unchecked capitalism has led to the rise in wealth inequality, and …

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April 20, 2021

P.E.T. Parent Effective Training, by Thomas Gordon (parenting, educat…

This book presents a series of parenting strategies that will allow parents and their children to build and maintain good relationships in all kinds of situations. By learning new methods and skills, parents can begin to solv...

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