Albers, Susan
Summary: "Turn mindless eating habits into mindful eating habits! In this breakthrough workbook, Susan Albers--author of Eating Mindfully and the New York Times bestseller, Eat Q--offers powerful mindfulness-based activities and skills to help you stop overeating. Do you zone out while eating? You're not alone! It's easy to polish off a bag of chips or a giant bowl of popcorn while marathon-streaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613.2 ALBRamirez, Ainissa
Summary: "Excerpts from the Preface and Chapter 8: Materials Science, wedged as it is between the two better-known fields of Chemistry and Physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 RAMWardley, Tessa
Summary: Mindful Thoughts for Runners explores the ways in which running offers us an opportunity to deepen our levels of awareness, lifting our souls as well as our endorphin levels!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leaping Hare Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 WARHollenstein, Jenna
Summary: "For anyone who struggles with food, eating, and body image, Intuitive Eating for Life presents easy and effective mindfulness skills to enhance, sustain, and deepen your intuitive eating practice! Intuitive eating is a great way to get off the diet roller coaster, stay healthy, build confidence in your body, and take the guesswork out of mealtime. But if you're like many people, you may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 HOLParisi, Giorgio
Summary: "From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 PARPrice, Catherine
Summary: "Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up 'just to check, ' only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone--but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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Summary: An "illustrated guide to harnessing the rhythms of nature for self-care ... [which examines] the habits of the porcupine to the sunflower to the wombat to the dragonfly--for small and simple things we can do to slow down, recharge, and living more thoughtfully, lovingly, and harmoniously"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SHAShaw, Adam
Summary: "A healthy, happy family is grown around the kitchen table. Social media's favourite foodie father Adam Shaw shares his delicious, budget-friendly recipes to take you from pregnancy through to parenthood, all while bringing fun and flavour back to the table"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nourish 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 SHARachlin, Ray
Summary: "In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topics like tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balance 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.3 RACSummary: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson returns, bringing together a rare mix of potentially clashing personalities - celebrities, comedians and the worlds leading scientific experts - to explore a variety of cosmic and science topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STAHammack, William Scott
Summary: "In this book, Bill Hammack, better known as The Engineer Guy, takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 HAMWilliam, Anthony
Summary: The second of two essential books on the brain offers customizable protocols, new recipes, heavy metal detox guidelines, cleanses, and cutting-edge information to protect yourself from 300+ symptoms and disorders. Your brain has abilities to heal beyond what medical research and science are aware of today. The brain remains a mystery to medicine when it comes to chronic illness and mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 WILSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STAFarahany, Nita A.
Summary: "A rock star academic explores the final frontier of personal privacy: your mind. Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customized fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and social media titans bypass your conscious mind to hook you to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 FARDeGrazia, David.
Summary: By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, the author explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 DEGSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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Summary: "Clear, concise and effective strategies to make your brain great"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Edelstein, Jean Hannah
Summary: "In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years--my whole adult life--because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too." When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELSTEIN, JEAN HANNAH EDEFuhrman, Joel
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America--coinciding with the author's new medical study revealing headline-making findings. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, one of the country's leading experts on preventative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 FUHSummary: "Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer: What just happened to us, and why? And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time. The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LESAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: "The Brain Warrior's Way is your arsenal to win the fight to live a better life. The Amens will guide you through the process, and give you the tools to take control. So if you're serious about your health, either out of desire or necessity, it's time to arm yourself and head into battle,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 AMEBell, Baxter
Summary: "Everyone would like to age as heathfully as possible and now numerous studies confirm what many yoga practitioners have known for a long time: yoga practice has a remarkable impact on physical and mental health--and spiritual well-being--as you grow older. Yoga for Healthy Aging is the most accessible and usable guide available on how yoga can address concerns related to strength, flexibility,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 BELCabeca, Anna
Summary: "As women approach the age at which they stop having their monthly period, many start to experience the physical and emotional indignities of hormonal fluctuation and an ensuing "metabolic stall." The result: hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, weight gain, memory loss or brain fog, irritability, and discomfort during sex. Many women are resigned to accept these changes now and for years to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 CABRavella, Shilpa
Summary: "A riveting investigation of inflammation--the hidden force at the heart of modern disease--and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Inflammation is the body's ancestral response to its greatest threats: injury and foreign microbes. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science reveals simmering inflammation underneath the surface of everything from heart disease and cancer to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022