The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

by the Dalai Lama
Nearly every time you see him, he’s laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He’s the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What’s more, he’ll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that “the very motion of our life is towards happiness.” How to get there has always been the question. He’s tried to answer it before, but he’s never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement. Together with Dr. Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life’s obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace.

Ratings and Reviews from the Librarians

Lorna rated it ★★★★★ and said, “There is a lot of good stuff in this book. I had it checked out from the library and I didn’t want to return it because I wanted to keep studying everything that The Dalai Lama talks about. We can really learn a lot from people of other faiths. Basically what I learned from the book is that our unhappiness is usually always caused by negative thinking and that it is possible to train our minds to replace these negative (or distorted) thoughts with positive ones. He also talks a lot about the importance of having compassion and loving kindness towards all people.”

First Bite by Bee Wilson

First Bite by Bee Wilson

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

by Bee Wilson

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables—or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?

In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. Taking the reader on a journey across the globe, Wilson introduces us to people who can only eat foods of a certain color; prisoners of war whose deepest yearning is for Mom’s apple pie; a nine-year-old anosmia sufferer who has no memory of the flavor of her mother’s cooking; toddlers who will eat nothing but hotdogs and grilled cheese sandwiches; and researchers and doctors who have pioneered new and effective ways to persuade children to try new vegetables. Wilson examines why the Japanese eat so healthily, whereas the vast majority of teenage boys in Kuwait have a weight problem—and what these facts can tell Americans about how to eat better.

The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. But Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits, First Bite also shows us how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

by Melanie Joy

This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.

Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals. She coins the term “carnism” to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others.

In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly animals are treated, the hazards meat-packing workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.

Recently revised and updated with fresh insights and suggestions, How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk is full of practical, innovative ways to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.

How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes

How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes

What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch”?

What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.

The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques—she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find: 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression; 14 ways to master small talk, “big talk,” and body language; 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity; 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd; 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone; 9 ways to feed someone’s ego (and know when NOT to!); 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool; 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room; and 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive.

In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you’ll remember them when you really need them, including “Rubberneck the Room,” “Be a Copyclass,” “Come Hither Hands,” “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky,” and “Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.

Radical Forgiveness by Colin C. Tipping

Radical Forgiveness by Colin C. Tipping

Radical Forgiveness

by Colin C. Tipping

Could there be a divine purpose behind everything that happens? If you’re willing to embrace this possibility, every aspect of your life can change. This is the theory behind Radical Forgiveness, Colin Tipping’s revolutionary method for liberating your energy for the soul’s highest expression. In Radical Forgiveness, readers join Colin for step-by-step instruction in what begins as a healing process, and culminates in a paradigm-shifting path to awakening.

Make Peace with Anyone by David J. Lieberman

Make Peace with Anyone by David J. Lieberman

Make Peace with Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

by David J. Lieberman

Make Peace with Anyone is the first book that shows readers how to quickly resolve any situation, no matter how long it’s been going on, or how many people are involved. The techniques and psychological strategies presented here are simple, easy to understand, and work…fast. In this book readers will learn how to:

•End any family feud
•Get an apology from anyone
•Jumpstart any relationship or friendship
•Handle any passive-aggressive person
•Get the respect you deserve from anyone
•Dramatically improve any relationship
•Get anyone to forgive you for anything
•Align anyone to your way of thinking

Dr. David Lieberman provides the path to permanent peace and will show you the way to Make Peace with Anyone.

What You Feel, You Can Heal by John Gray

What You Feel, You Can Heal by John Gray

What You Feel, You Can Heal: A Guide for Enriching Relationships

by John Gray

The author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus updates his guide to enriching relationships with members of the opposite sex. Gray explains how differences between women and men often lead to unnecessary clashes and offers new ways to understand, avoid, and resolve conflicts.

The Relationship Cure by John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire

The Relationship Cure by John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire

The Relationship Cure: A 5-Step Guide for Building Better Connections with Family, Friends, and Lovers

by John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire

A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones.

From the country’s foremost relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author Dr. John M. Gottman comes a powerful, simple five-step program, based on twenty years of innovative research, for greatly improving all of the relationships in your life—with spouses and lovers, children, siblings, and even your colleagues at work.

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