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Comprendre et améliorer l'alimentation des plus jeunes
Les enfants sont conscients, de plus en plus tt, de leur apparence. Ils veulent plaire. Ils veulent être minces. Et de plus en plus de parents se soucient du poids de leur enfant. Dans notre monde actuel, les pièges des sucres et des graisses sont partout et bien cachés. Ces pièges ne se sont pas présents uniquement à cause du changement de rythme de notre vie quotidienne, mais également...
19642) The Navigating College With the 7 Habits: A Digital Book to Help You Succeed in School and in Life
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A Guide for College Success
A step-by-step advice eBook: Written by author, speaker, and innovator, Sean Covey, this guide for college students lays out a detailed path to success. As President of FranklinCovey Education, Covey has long been dedicated to transforming education. In this step-by-step book, Covey shares how to establish habits that lead to a more effective learning experience.
Gain academic and life skills: Studying and retention skills...
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Jane Austen left an indelible mark on the world of literature. Her novels set a benchmark for her era and have entranced readers ever since. In Jane Austen on Love and Romance, Constance Moore proves how well Austen understood the human heart and why her work, filled with genuine emotion and wit, has continued to touch romantics. So, if you want to live happily ever after with a dashing man who owns half of Derbyshire, then arm yourself with this...
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Life as an adolescent is scary and confusing. In a weight-obsessed world that dictates what a "perfect body" should look like, teens who are insecure about their bodies see food as the enemy and reason they can't fit in with the popular crowd. Plus, in a volatile season of quick romances and breakups, strained or broken family ties, and academic expectations, food and emotional eating can be a teen's only coping mechanism to soothe a broken heart...
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From BPA in baby bottles and asbestos in crayons to misleading "natural" labels-even the most steadfast parent can be driven to frustration.
Lighthearted yet authoritative, Spit That Out! cuts through the information overload, sorts cloth from disposable, and empowers readers to make simple but impactful changes.
Featuring real life anxieties and advice from celebrities like Alysia Reiner and Kaitlin Olson, to activists such as Robyn O'Brien...
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At sixty-five, artist, writer, and psychologist Sharon Strong doesn't fit into the cultural stereotype of "senior citizen"-and she has no desire to. Instead, she claims the next decade, as the most transformational years of her life. At sixty-six, she erects the first of what will become a series of monumental sculptures on the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man. At sixty-seven, she treks in the Himalayas. At seventy, she meets the love of her life...
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It's 1953 in Southern California, Patty is five years old, and her mother hasn't been home in two days. A police officer eventually arrives and takes Patty and her brothers to juvenile hall-their mother has been drinking again.
Twenty-eight years later, Patty herself is an alcoholic mother to three children. Divorced and homeless, she soon realizes that she can't support her children with her job cleaning houses, so she accepts the offer of a man...
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I'm So Glad You're Here is the story of a family disrupted by ramifications of a father's mental illness. The memoir opens with a riveting account of Gay, age eighteen, witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and carried out of the house on a stretcher. The trauma she experiences escalates when, after her father has had electroshock treatments at a state mental hospital, her parents leave her in a college dorm room and move from Massachusetts...
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Growing up in the '50s in what was then the small town of Napa, California, Donna Brazzi had loving parents, a backyard the size of a football field with a swing and a big wooden picnic table perfect for summer barbecues, a cocker spaniel named Patty, and a cat named Stinky-everything a kid could want. She was a happy child.
But as she grew older and started to reach for more than a young woman from a working-class, Swiss-Italian family was expected...
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Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what's honorable, just as her parents raised her to do. But, when her husband, David, survives a plane crash and is left with severe brain damage, she faces a choice: will she dedicate her life to caring for a man she no longer loves, or walk away?
Their marriage had been rocky at the time of the accident, and though she wants to do the right thing, Rachel doesn't know how...
19651) Make it Happen
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GET UP. SPEAK UP. DON'T GIVE UP.
In the spring of 2017, 17-year-old Amika George founded the Free Periods movement on behalf of every schoolgirl who couldn't afford tampons or sanitary towels.
Three years later, in January 2020, these products became freely available to every schoolgirl in England for the first time, funded by the government.
Anyone can make history, including a teenager launching a global petition from their bedroom. And Amika...
19652) Rebellion, 1967: A Memoir
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Janet Duffy, a spunky, seventeen-year-old Irish girl, is eager to start college, but instability between her alcoholic father and self-absorbed mother jeopardize her dream, so she sets up her own apartment with her younger sister in Jamaica, Queens, and treks to City College in Manhattan, New York. The routine is deadening, but she finds purpose in the black community, working for a mural painter and volunteering for a civil rights activist.
After...
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Vous êtes coach ou envisagez de le devenir? Vous êtes coaché ou projetez de vous faire accompagner? N'attendez plus pour débuter la lecture de cet ouvrage!
Que vous soyez professionnel de l'accompagnement, entreprise ou particulier, vous vous questionnez peut-être sur le sens et l'utilité de ce métier, ses origines, paradoxes, outils, fondamentaux...
Si vous pensez utile de prendre du recul sur cette discipline passionnante et pétrie de...
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A compassionate, friendly, and even fun book about personal finance for the overwhelmed. In a world with fewer and fewer economic guarantees, every bit of knowledge is powerful, so we can build the life we dream of, meet our basic needs, and develop a healthy relationship with money. For many of us, salaried work and even hourly wages aren't part of our financial picture; this book is for the self-employed, the entrepreneur, the creative, and the...
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Cico Books
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2022.
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143 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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Incorporating rituals into all areas of your daily life can become a key way to practice self-care and help you keep your body and mind nourished with energy and happiness. Create helpful routines that work for you, discover the benefits of intuitive eating and breathwork, and adopt rituals of self-love, from luxurious baths to daily affirmations.
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Hudson Street Press
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c2012
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1st Edition
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viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases--misperceptions of the world--and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even the most hard-core skeptic indulges in magical thinking all the time--and it's crucial to our survival. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Hutson shows us that magical thinking has been so useful to us that it's hardwired into our brains. It encourages us to...
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After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to search for a way to feel good again. Having witnessed human suffering early in her career and within her own family, she longed for a way to address more than just the physical needs of her patients and to live in a lighter, more conscious way. Swimming with Elephants tells the eccentric, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious experience...
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HarperCollins
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2020
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An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband's life without her in a column in the New York Times.
On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times' "Modern Love" column -"You May Want to Marry My Husband." It appeared ten days before...
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"Elise Lufkin and Diana Walker once again present a moving collection of profiles, in beautiful, duotone photographs and moving text, of dogs that have found new lives after being "throw away" dogs. Each dog (and one cat) profiled has had a rough past, suffering abuse or extreme neglect at the hands of humans. Some dogs featured here have become therapy dogs for hospitals and nursing homes; reading partners for children; friends to at risk teens and...
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The four hundred townspeople of Ennis, Montana needed a doctor and Ronald E. Losee, MD, became "Doc." Learning from his failures and rejoicing in his triumphs, he performed appendectomies on a rickety operating-room table, repaired fractured tibiae, and even amputated a leg with a hacksaw. After a two year stint at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Losee returned to Montana to begin the pioneering work that gained him an international reputation....
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