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Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Golf Beneath the Surface, performance consultant Dr. Raymond Prior expertly debunks these "surface-level" psychology myths and explains psychological predictors that encourage long-term growth and skillful performance under pressure.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Have you ever gotten chills while listening to a particularly gorgeous piece of music? Or felt a sense of calm while gazing at a painting of a serene landscape? We have experiences like those every day, but rarely stop to consider what's happening internally to cause them. In Your Brain on Art, founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Susan Magsamen and Google designer Ivy Ross explain how, by understanding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
5) Golf flow
Author
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xii, 228 pages : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Golf Flow" offers time-tested principles, strategies, innovative methods and techniques to keep the mind quiet and distraction-free. Gio Valiante helps you orient your mind and harness your thoughts to attain an optimal performance zone to maximize your golf game.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Dr. Becky Kennedy, the popular psychologist known as the "Millennial Parenting Whisper," comes a groundbreaking guide that offers a new approach to parenting as well as practical solutions"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out--in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships--is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, this might sound like a tall order. But as bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson reassuringly explain, showing up doesn't take a lot...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research, as well as personal experience as a recovered addict, researcher and professor...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xlv, 437 : port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age 22 Eggers became an orphan and "single mother" when his parents died within months of each other from cancer. He is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8 year old brother, Christopher, whom he parents by very unconventional methods.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities. When our trust is broken, and when our own trustworthiness is called into question, many of us are left wondering what to do. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it? Dr. Peter H. Kim, the world's leading expert in the rapidly growing field of trust repair, has conducted over two decades...
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melissa Ohden was fourteen when she learned she was the survivor of a botched abortion. In this memoir she details her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Williams investigates cutting-edge research as she travels the world to explore how the human connection to nature is much more important to our cognition than we ever imagined.