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Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships--from partnered nonmonogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting, and time management. Woven throughout the book are the diverse voices of real people--from a woman with two husbands and a suburban swinger couple to polyamorous parents and a gay male triad--who candidly share their struggles, fears, hopes, and the secrets of their success in open relationships. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy--and will help you decide if an open relationship is right for you..
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Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do—learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days!

You probably run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep your body in great shape; you put on sunscreen and lotions to protect your skin; but chances are you simply ignore your brain and trust it to do its job. People unknowingly endanger or injure their brains, stress them by working at a frenzied pace and not getting enough sleep, pollute them with caffeine, alcohol, and drugs, and deprive them of proper nutrients. Brain dysfunction is the number one reason people fail at school, work, and relationships. The brain is the organ of learning, working, and loving—the supercomputer that runs our lives. It’s very simple: when our brains work right, we work right—and when our brains have trouble, we have trouble in our lives.

Luckily, it’s never too late: the brain is capable of change, and when you care for it, the results are amazing. Making a Good Brain Great gives you the tools you need to optimize your brain power and enrich your health and your life in the process. The principles and exercises in this book, based on years of cutting-edge neuroscience research and the experiences of thousands of people, provide a wealth of practical information to teach you how to achieve the best brain possible. You will learn:

•how to eat right to think right

•how to protect your brain from injuries and toxic substances

•how to nourish your brain with vitamins and do mental workouts to keep it strong

•the critical component of physical exercise, and which kinds work best

•how to rid your brain of negative thoughts, counteract stress, and much more

Full of encouraging anecdotes from Dr. Amen’s many years of experience, Making a Good Brain Great is a positive and practical road map for enriching and improving your own greatest asset—your brain.


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The Permaculture Way shows us how to consciously design a lifestyle which is low in environmental impact and highly productive It demonstrates how to meet our needs, make the most of resources by minimizing waste and maximizing potential, and still leave the Earth richer than we found it..
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Solid relationship advice for couples in recovery - delivered with a light touch.

Identifying relationship challenges specific to couples in recovery, and offering advice rooted in recovery principles, the Easy Does It Relationship Guide gently nudges readers to move beyond conflict and create healthier, happier, more intimate relationships. Mary Faulkner, a therapist and popular workshop leader, draws from sound relationship theory and shares stories and insights from couples in recovery. She identifies the five basic topics partners argue about over and over again— money, sex, extended family, children, and time—and offers suggestions for assessing and resolving disagreements. Faulkner also discusses ways to communicate wants and needs without drama, denial, or taking a partner's "inventory." In approach and content, Easy Does It Relationship Guide brims with great advice for all couples. Readers will come to see relationships as a process, always changing, often challenging, and ultimately a source of hope, strength, and joy.

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This book explores the theme that the plants themselves can do much of the hard work gardeners believe is an essential part of gardening The Self-Sustaining Garden advocates using plants as partners in self-sustaining communities to create low maintenance gardens rather than being a slave to spades and hoes. In a series of compelling case studies, Peter Thompson shows how to transform a conventional garden into a self-sustaining garden. Updated from the original edition (published in 1997), The Self-Sustaining Garden brings together an explanation of the universal principles of matrix planting with specific applications and informative chapters on soil health and biological controls, and shows how to pull all the ingredients together into a strong, self-sustaining design..
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A broad spectrum of ancient Eastern and modern Western philosophies are connected in this exciting new therapy. Free bodily tensions and release long-held emotions, thereby enhancing your mental and physical health. This superior integration of various therapeutic disciplines is ideal for the development of a holistic and integrated mind-body health approach..
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Celebrates the unique qualities of the family business and offers a comprehensive resource for successfully managing the enterprise across generations. Softcover. .
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Key texts on the origins of capitalism brought together for the first time.

In writing these celebrated essays Robert Brenner had an electric impact on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism. His epochal 1976 essay in Past and Present launched what became known as the "Brenner debate." His 2007 lecture at the British Academy was an elegant synthesis of his views and has generated a new discussion. The magnitude of Brenner's contribution to the world of ideas cannot be underestimated. This series of brilliant essays represent what is probably the most powerful single contribution from a materialist viewpoint to historical thought of the past half century.

Property and Progress brings these texts together in a single volume for the first time. Intellectually audacious and academically rigorous, they vary in range, offering novel perspectives on the nature of pre-capitalist and capitalist societies, socio-economic evolution in the medieval and early modern period through to the industrial revolution and a provocative comparison between England and the Yangtze Delta in China..
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Respect: Gaining It and Sustaining It A highly engaging and enlightening book that presents a comprehensive and bottom-up view on the highly overlooked topic of Respect. The author thoughtfully maps the basic components of Respect and re-assembles them in a very logical, practical, and axiomatic manner that sheds insight into human behavior and thought process. Respect is presented in a whole new light and perspective, and a strong case is made about the role Respect plays in driving and mitigating success in life. The author provides a wealth of personal experiences and public headline references that nicely support the presentation. The author presents the three components, or types, of Respect - Human Respect, Positional Respect, and Earned Respect. Each component is thoroughly explained and thoughtfully analyzed in simple terms. The author engages a continuous improvement approach, used extensively in the business world, to uncover a compelling roadmap to gaining and sustaining respect as an integral part of a balanced lifestyle. Parents and couples will find this book very intriguing and thought provoking, yearning to get to the next chapter for more insights. Young adults and professionals will learn a lot in the short period of time it takes to read this book. They will gain valuable knowledge and pragmatic advice that can be put to practice promptly in their personal and professional lives. Everyone will benefit greatly from the knowledge provided in this non-fiction self-help book, which.
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