Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe. What transforms...
Author
Language
English
Description
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even...
Author
Language
English
Description
Listen now to get the insights from Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. Sample Insights: 1) Power is not determined by money, but by the options you have in your life. If someone makes $500,000 a year, but cannot travel and must work 80-hour weeks to afford rent, are they really powerful? 2) To begin living a life with endless possibilities and with substantially fewer work hours, you have to change your assumptions about life.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the more than 15 years since its publication, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book. The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Molecules of Emotion (1997), by neuroscientist Candace B. Pert, is an account of her life in the lab and beyond. After she made a major scientific breakthrough as a graduate student, Pert's long career mapped mysterious connections between the mind and the body despite serious pushback from the scientific community...
Author
Language
English
Description
Insights from Holly Whitaker's Quit Like a Woman. Sample Insights:
1) Most of us are living the lives others expect us to live while aching for another.
2) The dissatisfaction and emptiness we feel from living a life that isn't in line with who we are manifests through substance abuse. We drink to feel better.
Author
Language
English
Description
Insights from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Sample Insights:
1) Thoughts are truly powerful. When mixed with the definiteness of purpose, persistence, and desire, they can be translated into riches or other material objects. Desire is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
2) Desire is thus the first step to riches. The method by which desire for riches...
Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine believing that if the lock on the front door isn't checked for the eighth time in a row, a family member will die, or that if a used fast-food wrapper is thrown away, it may be needed five years into the future to prevent a financial catastrophe. This is the type of psychic world inhabited by those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
Author
Language
English
Description
In How To Break Up With Your Phone (2018), author Catherine Price argues that most smartphone users have a toxic relationship with their phones, one that sabotages their sleep, creativity, and interpersonal relationships. Smartphone screens emit blue light that delays the release of melatonin, a neurochemical that signals for the body to rest...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Pueblo Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request