Conley, Chip
Summary: At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking him to help grow their disruptive start-up into a global hospitality giant. He had the industry experience, but Conley was lacking in the digital fluency of his 20-something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 CONBunting, Eve
Summary: Irish giant Finn McCool is told that in order to become wise he must catch and eat the salmon that possesses knowledge, but Finn finds that he cannot bring himself to kill the miraculous fish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BunTolstoy, Leo
Summary: This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alma Classics 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 087.1 TOLKoterski, Joseph W.
Summary: "This course surveys biblical wisdom literature by a study of important scriptural texts, including proverbs, job, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles), Daniel, Wisdom of Solomon, and selections from the Gospels as well as from the book of Psalms. The lectures take up the array of topics and problems that are recurrent in the Bible's sapiential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2009
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Summary: Celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of people aged 75-100, who reveal their secrets for living a meaningful life. Encompassing 3,000 years of collective life experience, diverse people share life lessons about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive in the midst of life's greatest challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIVJoslin, Mary.
Summary: Collects stories that highlight the strengths and weaknesses of human nature and the consequences of foolish choices, in a work featuring tales from such countries as Nigeria, Turkey, Bhutan, and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Children's 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 JOSSpitzer, Robert J.
Contents: Introduction: The purpose, perspective, and method of this volume -- Part One: Love and sexuality: True and false promises. True and false promises of happiness and freedom -- True and false promises of the homosexual lifestyle, pornography, gender change, and artificial birth control -- Part Two. Matters of life and death. Abortion, eugenics, invitro fertilization and embryonic stem cells --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Bloom, Harold.
Contents: The power of wisdom -- The Hebrews: Job and Ecclesiastes -- The Greeks: Plato's contest with Homer -- Cervantes and Shakespeare -- The greatest ideas are the greatest events -- Montaigne and Francis Bacon -- Samuel Johnson and Goethe -- Emerson and Nietzsche -- Freud and Proust -- Christian wisdom -- The gospel of Thomas -- Saint Augustine and reading -- Coda: nemesis and wisdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 BLOKaagegaabaw, James Vukelich
Summary: "Discover the profound wisdom of the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe people in 'The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings.' In this captivating journey, you will immerse yourself in timeless teachings that illuminate the way to interconnectedness and interdependence. As the spiritual translation of the sacred laws, the Seven Grandfather teachings guide us towards Mino-bimaadiziwin, 'the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Vukelich 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 KAASeuss
Summary: "The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. Featuring over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and many more, this humorous and inspiring collection is, indeed, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SEUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SEUKelly, Kevin
Summary: "On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life's wisdom into these pages. Kelly's timeless advice covers an astonishing range, from right living to setting ambitious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 KELZuckerman, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 0VS 779.2 ZUCBonney, Grace
Summary: "In her new book, Grace Bonney continues where In the Company of Women left off and connects the dots between women of all generations (from ages 18 to 100), offering a brand-new perspective on empowering and empowered women. Collective Wisdom will include a multilayered tapestry of interviews, conversations, intimate photos, wish lists, artwork, images of handwritten letters, and more,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 BONFerriss, Timothy
Summary: Fitness, money, and wisdom -- here are the tools. Over the last two years, Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe while interviewing them for his self-titled podcast. Now the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Laszlo, Ervin
Summary: ""By opening this Handbook for wise thinking and living, you open the door to your new identity, because across the threshold there is only the lightness of Being, and infinity in all directions."-Deepak Chopra In The Wisdom Principles, Dr. Ervin Laszlo,authority in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, bridges the chasm between our understanding of science and the truths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 LASAlford, Henry
Summary: Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central/Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging AlfordBender, Linda
Contents: Part I -- The ecology of paradise -- How can we know what animals are thinking and feeling? -- Happy anticipation in dogs and cats -- Warnings and premonitions -- The limitations of experiment -- Part II. What animals want us to know -- You are loved -- You are already living in paradise -- You don't have to figure everything out -- Dying isn't bad -- How to communicate telepathically with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 BENCameron, Julia
Summary: "Julia Cameron returns to the spiritual roots of The Artist's Way in this 6-week program. Author Julia Cameron changed the way the world thinks about creativity when she first published The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity thirty yearsago. Over five million copies later, Cameron now turns her attention to creative prayer, which she believes is a key facet of the creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 CAMDeng, Ming-Dao
Summary: When I was a boy, I didn't get specific lessons on how to live. I got stories. If I asked why I had to believe some concept, a person like my grandmother might reply with something like, "This is the true because of what happened to the Yellow Emperor," and then the story would follow. What intrigues me is that this habit hasn't changed even after China's revolution, rapid modernization,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 2018
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Summary: Identifies a loss of common-sense wisdom that has coincided with a collapsing economy, failing schools, and other setbacks, and offers recommendations to identify and cultivate wisdom by combining experience with empathy and intellect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 SCHDyer, Wayne W
Summary: The author illuminates the meaning and original context of the most important poems, writings, and phrases of history's greatest minds, and demonstrates how to apply them to daily life
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 DYEFriedman, Kinky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 FRIGriffin, Kevin Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 GRILeland, John
Summary: A "look at what it means to grow old and a ... guide to well-being, [this book] weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the 'oldest old'--those eighty-five and up"--Dust jacket flap. In 2015, Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018