Borba, Michele
Summary: The bestselling author of unselfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test scores) are no longer reliable predictors of success in the 21st century - and offers 7 teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future. Michele Borba has been a teacher, educational consultant, and parent for 40 years - and she's never been more worried than she is about this current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1996
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Summary: Entrepreneur and speaker Jess Ekstrom helps readers let go of cynicism and negativity and start viewing their challenges through the lens of opportunity and optimism, showing us how to start seeing the good in the world so that we can become the good in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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Summary: "Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. With a deeply personal touch, she explains that just like any skill, optimism requires practice and demonstrates how we can shift our mindsets and give ourselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ROBEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.2 EHRSeligman, Martin E. P.
Contents: Two ways of looking at life -- Learning to be helpless -- Explaining misfortune -- Ultimate pessimism -- How you think, how you feel -- Success at work -- Children and parents -- School -- Sports -- Health -- Politics, religion, and culture -- The optimistic life -- Helping your child escape pessimism -- The optimistic organization -- Flexible optimism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2006
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Contents: The MindBody Code -- Archetypal wounds and their healing fields -- Does the immune system have morals? -- Guardians of the heart -- Lessons from centenarians -- Abundance phobia and reclaiming your birth right of wealth, health, and love -- Stigmata : how the mind wounds and heals the body -- Forgiveness as liberation from self-entrapment -- Psychospiritual conflicts and their resolutions --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2014
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Summary: Hope in the Age of Anxiety identifies the skills needed to cultivate hope, and offers suggestions for using these capacities to realize your life goals, support health and healing, strengthen relationships, enhance spirituality, and inoculate yourself against the despair that engulfs many individuals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EHRSummary: This new approach to working with children and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) fosters the characteristics that will be most useful to them in society and in life in general. Children with ASD often have difficulties with communication, emotional regulation, anxiety, executive functioning, and building relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley 2011
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Summary: In this witty political satire, a gentleman plagued by misfortune clings to the belief that all is for the best. Voltaire mocks the eternal optimist philosophy of his day that proclaimed human and natural disasters part of a larger cosmic plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.5 VOLMüller, Jan-Werner
Summary: "A discussion of the rules and norms underlying democracy with an emphasis on the role played by elections and political parties"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021