Bono, Tim
Summary: Are you as authentically happy as your social media profiles make it seem? When a group of researchers asked young adults around the globe what their number one priority was in life, the top answer was "happiness." Not success, fame, money, looks, or love...but happiness. For a rising generation of young adults raised as digital natives in a fast-paced, ultra-connected world, authentic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2018
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Summary: The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness-that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy-is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to change your life for the better, and awakening to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2010
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Summary: "Middle schoolers learn how to identify, manage, and self regulate their emotions and moods"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2022
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Summary: "In The Upside of Your Dark Side, two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far, they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions such as anger,anxiety, guilt, and sadness might feel uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. For instance: - Anger fuels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 KASRutley, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pax Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 RUTGarcia, Gabi
Summary: "Listening to My Body is an engaging and interactive picture book that introduces children to the practice of paying attention to their bodies. Through a combination of story, and simple experiential activities, it guides them through the process of noticing and naming their feelings and the physical sensations that accompany them so that they can build on their capacity to engage mindfully,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Take Heart Press 2017
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Summary: "A hilarious ride through the ups and downs of being grumpy, helping kids deal with cranky feelings, frustrating relationships, and things that just make them mad"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERWallace, Chelsea Lin
Summary: Told in rhyming text, a little girl is having a day where absolutely nothing goes right, a day filled with frustration and annoyances, but even bad days end eventually.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALSummary: In this powerful collection, such YA authors as Gayle Forman, Adi Alsaid, and Mike Curato answer real letters from teens about the dark side of love: dating violence, break-ups, cheating, betrayals, and loneliness. Their responses are autobiographical, unflinching, and filled with love and hope for the anonymous teen writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: "In her ultra-viral article 'Women Aren't Nags--We're Just Fed Up,' ... Gemma Hartley gave ... voice to the frustration and anger experienced by countless women. Now, in Fed Up, Hartley expands outward from the everyday frustrations of performing thankless emotional labor to illuminate how the expectation to do this work in all arenas--private and public--fuels gender inequality, limits our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2018
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Summary: Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death, bitter and sweet, are forever paired. With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 155.2 CAISmith, Emily Esfahani
Summary: "This wise, stirring book argues that the search for meaning can immeasurably deepen our lives and is far more fulfilling than the pursuit of personal happiness. There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit--that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to figure out life's great secret. The truth is, there are untapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SMIFrazzetto, Giovanni
Summary: "Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel? In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and philosophy is equally crucial to unraveling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pain has a clear purpose: warning the body of invasion and other dangers. But the connection between pain and the human mind is more mysterious. This program examines various types of pain and their frequently elusive neurological aspects; it also presents methods, both clinical and alternative, that help long-term sufferers cope with debilitating pain. Distinguishing between acute and chronic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Which is more enjoyable-the satisfaction of desire, or the sensation of longing itself? This program looks at the emotional, neurological, and genetic aspects of seeking and gaining pleasure, analyzing close ties between the search for gratification and the preservation of self and species. Examining a wide range of ways to follow one's bliss-including sex, artistic creation, the consumption of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: What happens in our brains when we think something is funny? Is laughter a form of self-defense? Can a joke be scientifically analyzed? This program studies the human response to humor from a physiological and psychological standpoint. Highlighting the importance of vocal cords in producing laughter, the program contrasts human and simian forms of humor and gives viewers an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Anorexia. Bulimia. Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric conditions. After defining eating disorders from a clinical point of view, this three-section program explores possible underlying biological bases for eating disorders; considers sociocultural influences on young adults that equate "thin" with "good"; and questions to what extent eating disorders may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Amen, Daniel G.
Summary: Psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love. Today is the day to start changing the trajectory of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 AMEMasson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff)
Summary: Delves into the secretive, playful world of cats, debunking myths and honoring the feline's evolution from solitary jungle creature to human companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8 MASSummary: Hiding deep within the human mind-or perhaps closer to its surface than many would care to know-are forces that can cause one person to assault and kill another. This program studies the primal centers of the brain and the behaviors they control in order to gain an understanding of violence. Illustrating the role of brain chemicals like dopamine and serotonin as well as social conditioning that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program examines arguably the most human instinct of all: the instinct to protect, which, combined with other qualities, prompts people to risk everything for the sake of others. Three gripping stories-a mother who wrestled a cougar to save her son, a soldier who braved enemy fire to rescue a comrade, and two men who helped a woman in a wheelchair escape the collapse of the World Trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Brach, Tara.
Summary: Presents an accessible guide to tapping inner resources to promote peace and acceptance in the face of difficult life challenges by building on the three traditional Buddhist pathways to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 BRAMasson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff)
Summary: Masson draws from myth and literature, from scientific studies and from the stories of dog trainers and lovers around the world. But the stars of the book are Masson's own three dogs, whose delightful and mysterious behavior provides the way to explore emotions like gratitude, compassion, loneliness, and disappointment to speculating what dogs dream of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 MASNhá̂t Hạnh
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004