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When Uchenna and Elliot’s classmate publishes an article in the school newspaper about the Schmoke Brothers, Professor Fauna notices something alarming in a photo. Mounted on the wall of the Schmoke’s living room is a single spiral horn that he’s certain could have come from only one animal - a unicorn! To save these magical creatures - and to finally see a unicorn themselves - the Unicorn Rescue Society heads to the rugged mountains of Pakistan.

You know from experience that when you change your perspective on something that troubles you, it can sometimes quickly change how you feel and improve the way you deal with challenges. This small book explains how to change your perspective deliberately and reliably, which will make you feel good more often and get more of your goals accomplished. This is a short, practical, easy-to-read book on reframing the events in your life so you're more capable of dealing with them and better able to keep a good attitude.

The way you think has a big influence in how the events of your life unfold. Whether you act impulsively or consider your options first, whether you have the self-discipline to exercise regularly or eat healthy food or want to exercise and eat better but fail repeatedly, etc. — all these outcomes and many more are ultimately determined by how you think. Direct Your Mind is about how to use the natural processes of your mind to work in your favor rather than working against you.

From a family restaurant to a hot-dog shaped car, from an empty road on a moonlight night to a classroom holiday celebration, this anthology of personal stories from award-winning and bestselling authors, shows that hope can live everywhere, even—or especially—during the darkest of times. No matter what happens: Hope wins.

See Her Smile is a book for men about how you can do something you really want to do: Make her happy more often without compromising your integrity, without being phony, and without being any less of a man.

Using one of the simplest self-help methods ever created, this small book shows you how to change the one thing that will change everything: Your habitual way of thinking.

Whenever a setback occurs, you automatically explain it to yourself. And you explain setbacks in a particular way. Most of us never even think about the way we've learned to explain setbacks, but the way we do it has tremendous consequences in our lives. This short book will show you how to make the most of this fact.

This is a collection of short, easy-to-read, to-the-point articles on how to have a better attitude, how to do better at work, and how to deal with people successfully. The articles were originally published in a newsletter called At Your Best, where Adam Khan's column was voted the reader's favorite.

This is a collection of short articles, most of them originally published in Rodale Press's newsletter, At Your Best. The articles are about how to have a great attitude, how to get along better with people, and how to be more effective at work. This book is being used as a textbook for a Life Skills class in San Diego. You'll learn effective strategies for developing your emotional, professional, and interpersonal skills. The chapters are almost all short and to the point, with a short summary of the core principles at the end of each chapter. The material is practical and highly readable.

This slim volume describes some of the experiments on gender differences, including some interesting differences in brain structure, and how those differences affect what we're interested in, how we talk to each other, and our emotional reactions. Understanding the differences between the sexes, and understanding that many of them are built-in and unchangeable, can help us have closer, stronger relationships.

While it's true that sometimes you are naturally motivated, especially immediately after deciding on a goal, it is also true that you can cultivate motivation or let it do what it naturally does most of the time: fade. Motivation is a tremendous power. A highly motivated person can accomplish seemingly impossible things. In this tiny book, you will learn how to stoke your inner fire, to get and keep your motivation burning white hot. This not only makes you more capable of accomplishment, but it makes life more fun. Would you like to see what you are really capable of? Intense motivation ...

This small book is a manifesto for fuel competition and explains clearly why enough cars on our roads capable of burning multiple fuels will change the world. Fuel competition will not only help the United States improve its economic vitality, its national security, and its environmental health, it will also reduce pollution, help small farmers in developing nations rise out of poverty, and end the repression of women in OPEC nations. In this book you will find out how the problem got started and what YOU can do to help solve it. We have been the victims of oil's destructive monopoly long ...

You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you. You are merely human. In this book, I analyze and discuss my own experience with acute anxiety, depression, and derealization. My nervous breakdown came at a time when I was at the top of my game, thriving in my career, and with a beautiful family. My story is raw, relatable, and most importantly, deeply human. This book offers pragmatic, practical advice with resources to help you begin to cope with your own struggles. If this is your first time tackling your mental health struggles, then please follow me along my own journey.

What do a bestselling children’s author, a senior skydiving instructor and film producer, and an ex-AFL footballer have in common? That’s right, nothing at all … well, nothing except a constant desire to improve, explore and get the best out of themselves. Welcome to the Wally, Ossie and Jobbas podcast, where the sky is the limit and nothing is off the table. Tackling life’s big topics with open minds, curiosity and a dash of humour, it’s time to kick goals. So let’s get started.