Tierney, John (John Marion)
Summary: Our brain's negativity bias makes evolutionary sense because it kept our ancestors alert to fatal dangers, but it distorts our perspective in today's media environment. The steady barrage of bad news and crisismongering makes us feel helpless and leaves us needlessly fearful and angry. We ignore our many blessings, preferring to heed--and vote for--the voices telling us the world is going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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Summary: "Take Back Your Brain offers a new paradigm for breaking free from negative self-talk and creating a life of confidence, power, and joy, from the host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, Kara Loewentheil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2024
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Summary: Offers advice on how women can overcome negative thinking and behaviors that lead to anxiety and depression, challenging the practice of analyzing personal emotions while presenting strategies on how to live more productively.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 NOLSummary: Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2016
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Summary: A practicing psychiatrist offers strategies for avoiding emotional "vampires" and tackling life's most difficult challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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Contents: Face it -- Trouble -- Taking off -- First impressions -- Embracing the message -- Follow it -- Seeing the light -- Spreading the word -- Darkness -- Step by step -- Communicating -- Fix it -- Reconnecting -- Progress -- On a personal note -- Positive effects -- Hope -- Sweet successes -- Finding answers -- Surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2009
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Summary: "Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Katō-a curmudgeon and recent retiree-finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won't allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: "Teaches school-age children cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce and overcome negativity, through writing and drawing activities and self-help exercises and strategies. Includes introduction for parents"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Books 1989
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Summary: Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and examining failure and loss and unhappiness will we become free of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossing Press 2001