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Simple Practices for a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit

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In these pages, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel offers 101 simple exercises for the soul, a divine plan for healing yourself and transforming your life. With his trademark humor and insight, he becomes your workout coach, giving you this wonderful series of short and easy-to-apply exercises to help you achieve your potential and live a more peaceful, loving, and fulfilling life.



As Bernie writes in the introduction, Before you know it, you will begin to notice how your life has taken on more meaning and how much better you feel....The Force is with you. Believe me.

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A 30-Minute Guide to a Better Relationship

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Filled with commonsense ideas that can apply to any relationship, this guide will help anyone interested in improving communication with their partner. 



It emphasizes that communication is the key to a good relationship, and that an inability to understand one another is the main reason most couples enter into therapy with a professional counselor. It offers twenty tips that are likely to improve the way couples talk and listen to each other.

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101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married

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With the divorce rate soaring at a dizzying 60 percent, young couples and experienced partners may lack the skills and understanding to sustain a committed relationship. Linda and Charlie Bloom present 101 nuggets of wisdom that deliver practical guidance and make it clear that regardless of past experience anyone can develop the basic strengths, skills, and capacities needed for a great relationship. Each lesson is presented as a simple, one-sentence thought followed by an explanation using real-life examples. This book demonstrates how couples can enrich their own relationships by working through love's challenges.

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Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition

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How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

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Originally published in 1987, Diet for a New America awakened the conscience of a nation with its startling examination of the food we buy and eat  and the moral, economic, and medical price we pay for it. Drawing a clear line connecting Americas factory farm system with disease, animal cruelty, and ecological crises, Robbins makes perhaps the most eloquent argument for vegetarianism ever published. Robbins walked away from his familys business  the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire  to pursue his dream of promoting a healthy society that practices compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem. In Diet for a New America he presents both a disturbing portrait of our current system and a vision for the future that will educate and empower readers to change.

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A Practical Mind-Body-Spirit Guide for Putting an End to Overeating and Dieting

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Despite our best intentions, many of us find ourselves routinely overeating at meals, snacking mindlessly, or bingeing regularly. As emotional eaters, we turn to food for comfort, soothing, distraction, and excitement. Theres a disconnection fueling our eating, robbing years from our lives, and we know it. Were tired of restrictive diets that lead back to overeating, and were ready to try something different.

Therapist and life coach Julie Simon offers a new approach that addresses the true causes of overeating and weight gain: emotional and spiritual hunger and body imbalance. The Emotional Eaters Repair Manual presents five self-care skills, five body-balancing principles, and five soul-care practices that can end overeating and dieting forever. Youll learn to nurture yourself without turning to food, to correct body and brain imbalances that trigger overeating, and to address your souls hunger. Weight loss, more energy, improved health, and self-esteem will naturally follow.

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The Daring Adventure of Becoming Your Own Best Friend

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Most of us know that loving ourselves would be a good idea, but we have no clue what that really means. Self-love feels too vast, too esoteric, and frankly like something you should keep under wraps.

This breakthrough book on self-love changes all that by taking you beyond the idea of loving, valuing, and caring for yourself into daring acts that will help you experience it. Christine Arylo provides practical, fun ways to explore and embody the ten branches of self-love every day and in every part of your life. Reading this book is like receiving permission to treat yourself as a best friend would. Imagine having the power to:

* Give to yourself first, without guilt
* Shower yourself with loving words instead of criticism and comparison
* Go for your dreams with conviction and courage
* Choose the situations and relationships that make you happiest
* Discover and explore your deepest thoughts and desires  and act on them

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My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness

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As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally cry, hug, or do yoga. But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious and wise tale shows, Leaf embarked on a quest for health and happiness  visiting yoga studios around the country and consulting Ayurvedic physicians, swamis, and even (accidentally) a prostitute. Twenty-one years later, he teaches yoga and meditation and is the beloved founder of a holistic tutoring center that helps students whose ailments he once shared.

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Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma

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From business meetings to social events to first dates to job interviews, we all encounter new people every day. Our ability to read body cues and convey the right first impression drives the success and quality of our personal and professional lives. Body language expert Patti Wood, a sought-after consultant and speaker to Fortune 500 companies, helps businesses and individuals stand out, create profitable relationships, and thrive in competitive circumstances. Now she brings that knowledge to our daily lives, offering practical and proven guidance on accurately interpreting body cues and creating impressions both in person and digitally. In Snap, youll learn how to:

* Use your voice and body language to convey confidence and charisma, authenticity and authority
* Immediately discern peoples hidden agendas 
* Make the best impressions via email, phone, video conferencing, and social networks
* Convey and interpret signals of likability, power, credibility, and attractiveness 
* Use nonverbal tools to spot true integrity or recognize charming frauds 
* Attract the best matches in business and romantic partners 
* Recognize how you really look to others

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Exploring the Power of Womens Sexual Fantasies

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Private Thoughts provides more than just these womens fantasies, however. It combines new research with the advice of a seasoned sex therapist. The result is an exciting contribution to the field of sexuality. Drawing insights from Wendys research and advice from her clinical experience as a sex therapist, the book gently guides women to explore their own fantasy style and to recognize the origins of their fantasies. It gives women permission to enjoy their fantasies while also helping them to recognize how some fantasies may be masking emotional pain, which could be detrimental to them and to their relationships.

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Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death

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Knowledge of the afterlife can trigger dazzling transformations in body, mind, and spirit. It unleashes our authentic selves, radically resets our values, and deepens our sense of life purpose. From it we discover that the real nature of the universe is the very essence of benevolence. In this comprehensive work, Julia Assante probes what happens when we die, approaching with scholarly precision historical and religious accounts, near-death experiences, and after-death communication. She then presents convincing evidence of discarnate existence and communication with the dead and offers practical ways to make contact with departed loved ones to heal and overcome guilt, fear, and grief.

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How One Man's Dream Changed the Way We Celebrate Christmas

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In 1934, twenty-two-year-old George Skinner was stricken with polio

and confined to an iron lung in the polio ward of Los Angeles County General Hospital. Regular visits from his father, Albert, and the outpouring of support from his neighbors and community kept him going as he struggled to heal. Determined to walk again and recover from this horrible disease, he vowed that when he left the hospital he would create something to thank his community and to repay their kindness; he would create something called the Christmas House.

In the midst of the Great Depression, in 1936, those dreams came true. George left the hospital and began building an elaborate outdoor display with his father. Newspapers sent photographers; the local American Legion Post donated time and supplies; churches provided choirs and contributed food; but most of all, children and adults came to experience the first house ever decorated with elaborate outdoor holiday displays and to bask in the true spirit of Christmas.

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Why do elephants bury their dead? What makes birds sing and cranes dance? Do animals appreciate art? Do they know the difference between right and wrong? Do they experience awe and wonder? In this revised second edition of his celebrated book, Reverend Gary Kowalski combines heartwarming stories with solid science to show that other creatures are not insensitive objects devoid of feeling and intellect but thinking, sentient beings with an inward, spiritual life.

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A Couple's Guide to Creating True Financial Intimacy

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Money issues have long been the number one cause of relationship disharmony and divorce, yet when it comes to identifying and changing unhealthy money patterns and behaviors, many couples feel helpless. Money coach Deborah Price has taught thousands of people how to work together to resolve money conflicts and create a financially empowered future. In these pages, she presents strategies and tools for creating financial intimacy while learning to communicate about money issues calmly and reflectively, rather than reactively. With inspirational stories and practical techniques and exercises, this book will help you and your partner:

* learn the language of financial intimacy and talk about money in a healthy and empowering way
* recognize and change unhealthy money patterns
* identify which of the eight money types apply to each of you and understand the impact they have on your life, your relationship, and your finances
* build a mutual sense of financial security and confidence
* work through setbacks and challenges to make your relationship stronger than ever before

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Creating the Life of Your Dreams and a World That Works for All

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This extraordinary work presents a series of simple, powerful tools that anyone can use to find a short, effortless route to success and fulfillment. You will discover tried-and-true techniques that deliver quick results. In fact, these shortcuts to success are so simple, accessible, and effective that you will quickly call them magical. Marc Allen developed these tools over several decades, and refined them over many years in a series of life-changing seminars. The results have been wonderful, even miraculous, for a great many people. 



Work and play with any part of this book and youll start seeing remarkable things happening in your life and in your world.

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Advent and Christmas Wisdom from St. Therese of Lisieux

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Even though she is a Doctor of the Church, St. Therese of Lisieux is more well-known for being the little flower of Jesus. Through her little way, she has inspired many Catholics to love God simply, devoutly, and with great love. St. Therese believed that no act of faith is too small for God. Loving God in this way wasnt always easy for St. Therese, but even through her suffering and death at age twenty-four she tried to love God with all her heart.

In her autobiography, Story of a Soul (LHistoire dune Ame), St. Therese shares the story of her little way and helps us see God in his smallest creations. John Cleary uses passages from Story of a Soul to inspire us to embrace our own smallness this Advent and Christmas and see past the glamour and hype of a material Christmas to the small miracle that comes on December 25.

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Rilla grew up in a Paradise. A place where humans could live freely from the threat of magic and dangers of the Outworld. What most people in the Outworld weren't aware of was that the Paradises were becoming just as dangerous to live in as their own world.
From the very beginning, Rilla knew she was different from everyone else. Abandoned by her mother and shunned by her father, the others in her Paradise soon began to treat her as though she was invisible, or worse still, a non-conformist.
But when an Outworlder arrives in Rilla's Paradise just days before The Choosing, she suddenly becomes more visible than she's ever been in her life. The balance of four lives rests with her and she is sworn to protect them. Can she possibly keep them all safe and alive when she discovers their secrets?
Join Rilla and her companions on a journey through an Outworld full of danger, magical mishaps and political disasters and see what each discovers about themselves along the way.

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A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games

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As science becomes increasingly computational, the limits of what is

computationally tractable become a barrier to scientific progress. Many

scientific problems, however, are amenable to human problem solving skills

that complement computational power. By leveraging these skills on a larger

scale---beyond the relatively few individuals currently engaged in

scientific inquiry---there is the potential for new scientific discoveries.



This book presents a framework for mapping open scientific problems into

video games. The game framework combines computational power with human

problem solving and creativity to work toward solving scientific problems

that neither computers nor humans could previously solve alone. To maximize

the potential contributors to scientific discovery, the framework designs a

game to be played by people with no formal scientific background and

incentivizes long-term engagement with a myriad of collaborative or

competitive reward structures. The framework allows for the continual

coevolution of the players and the game to each other: as players gain

expertise through gameplay, the game changes to become a better tool.



The framework is validated by being applied to proteomics problems with the

video game Foldit. Foldit players have contributed to novel discoveries in

protein structure prediction, protein design, and protein structure

refinement algorithms. The coevolution of human problem solving and computer

tools in an incentivized game framework is an exciting new scientific

pathway that can lead to discoveries currently unreachable by other methods.

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Trust Extension as a Mechanism for Secure Code Execution on Commodity Computers

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As society rushes to digitize sensitive information and services, it is imperative to adopt adequate security protections. However, such protections fundamentally conflict with the benefits we expect from commodity computers. In other words, consumers and businesses value commodity computers because they provide good performance and an abundance of features at relatively low costs. Meanwhile, attempts to build secure systems from the ground up typically abandon such goals, and hence are seldom

adopted.



In this book, I argue that we can resolve the tension between security and features by leveraging the trust a user has in one device to enable her to securely use another commodity device or service, without sacrificing the performance and features expected of commodity systems. At a high level, we support this premise by developing techniques to allow a user to employ a small, trusted, portable device to securely learn what code is executing on her local computer. Rather than entrusting her data to the mountain of buggy code likely running on her computer, we construct an on-demand secure execution environment which can perform security-sensitive tasks and handle private data in complete isolation from all other software (and most hardware) on the system. Meanwhile, non-security-sensitive software retains the same abundance of features and performance it enjoys today.



Having established an environment for secure code execution on an individual computer, we then show how to extend trust in this environment to network elements in a secure and efficient manner. This allows us to reexamine the design of network protocols and defenses, since we can now execute code on endhosts and trust the results within the network. Lastly, we extend the user's trust one more step to encompass computations performed on a remote host (e.g., in the cloud). We design, analyze, and prove secure a protocol that allows a user to outsource arbitrary computations to commodity computers run by an untrusted remote party (or parties) who may subject the computers to both software and hardware attacks. Our protocol guarantees that the user can both verify that the results returned are indeed the correct results of the specified computations on the inputs provided, and protect the secrecy of both the inputs and outputs of the computations. These guarantees are provided in a non-interactive, asymptotically optimal (with respect to CPU and bandwidth) manner.



Thus, extending a user's trust, via software, hardware, and cryptographic techniques, allows us to provide strong security protections for both local and remote computations on sensitive data, while still preserving the performance and features of commodity computers.

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Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems

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The wireless medium is a shared resource. If nearby devices transmit at the

same time, their signals interfere, resulting in a collision. In traditional

networks, collisions cause the loss of the transmitted information. For this

reason, wireless networks have been designed with the assumption that

interference is intrinsically harmful and must be avoided.



This book, a revised version of the author's award-winning Ph.D.

dissertation, takes an alternate approach: Instead of viewing interference

as an inherently counterproductive phenomenon that should to be avoided, we

design practical systems that transform interference into a harmless, and

even a beneficial phenomenon. To achieve this goal, we consider how wireless

signals interact when they interfere, and use this understanding in our

system designs. Specifically, when interference occurs, the signals get

mixed on the wireless medium. By understanding the parameters of this

mixing, we can invert the mixing and decode the interfered packets; thus,

making interference harmless. Furthermore, we can control this mixing

process to create strategic interference that allow decodability at a

particular receiver of interest, but prevent decodability at unintended

receivers and adversaries. Hence, we can transform interference into a

beneficial phenomenon that provides security.



Building on this approach, we make four main contributions: We present the

first WiFi receiver that can successfully reconstruct the transmitted

information in the presence of packet collisions. Next, we introduce a WiFi

receiver design that can decode in the presence of high-power

cross-technology interference from devices like baby monitors, cordless

phones, microwave ovens, or even unknown technologies. We then show how we

can harness interference to improve security. In particular, we develop the

first system that secures an insecure medical implant without any

modification to the implant itself. Finally, we present a solution that

establishes secure connections between any two WiFi devices, without having

users enter passwords or use pre-shared secret keys.

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This book provides a fresh, photonabased description of modern molecular spectroscopy and photophysics, with applications drawn from chemistry, biology, physics and materials science. The concise and detailed approach includes some of the most recent developments, dispensing with oldafashioned treatments of theory and instrumentation.

Instead, the focus is on how light absorption and scattering occurs in molecules, and what happens to the energy that the molecules can acquire. The author draws upon his extensive experience of teaching these subjects at university level. Departing from the entrenched pattern of most textbooks, this book provides a modern and amenable treatment, directly meeting the needs of todayas scientist. The text is fresh and lively, interspersed with vivid original figures, and there are numerous worked examples, illustrating the principles with realaworld examples.