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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 1, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By Porchlight
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
An Emotion of Great Delight
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
How do you walk through sorrow so deep that you cannot see past it? How do you find yourself when it feels like the world is standing against you?
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five sets a healthy example for focusing more on finding strength within oneself to improve the world in the future rather than expending energy on the injustices one has faced in the past.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Influence of Optimism: From Good Parenting to Great Leadership
By Kelly Rippon
Living optimistically requires practice. Pausing and intentionally searching our brains for the best-case scenario can be frustrating at first, but over time and with repetition, we naturally gravitate toward the most hopeful outcome, and it eventually becomes a pattern.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | May 25, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Author and natural navigator Tristan Gooley passes down the wisdom of the weather, decodes the clouds, defines the many shades and densities of fog, and much more in his new book, The Secret World of Weather.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Be Who You Want: Unlocking the Science of Personality Change
By Porchlight
From cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Christian Jarrett, a fascinating book exploring the science of personality and how we can change ourselves for the better.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
A wonder-filled survey of the world humans have inhabited and created for ourselves in which many disparate elements of the author’s personal life come together with our collective past and present.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
Big Little Breakthroughs: How Everyday People Become Everyday Innovators
By Josh Linkner
The very act of playing it safe has become the riskiest move of all. … To fight back, everyday innovators push themselves to explore the unexpected. They discard obvious ideas in favor of unorthodox ones.
Categories: changethis