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The Burnout Solution: 7 Steps from Exhausted to Extraordinary
by Sharon Grossman
This book offers seven practical steps to understand, prevent, and recover from burnout. Grossman combines research, real-life stories, and proven strategies to help readers transform exhaustion into empowerment and build long-term resilience.
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If your adolescent has autism
by Emily Willingham
This concise, readable book offers the latest in evidence-based information about what happens when autism and adolescence intersect. The book covers the teen years, addressing middle school and high school, along with the transition period from high school into adulthood. If Your Adolescent Has Autism will give parents of autistic teenagers what they need: information presented with compassion and understanding, with an emphasis on both the strengths and the disability related to autism and their unique manifestations during this transitional period of life.
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Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience
by Shawn Horn
If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may have trouble building and maintaining relationships. Social pressures may send you spiraling into fits of chaotic thought and speech, or feelings of shame and low self-esteem. You aren't alone, and it's not your fault. Many adult ADHDers struggle with communication and social interactions. The good news is there are skills you can easily learn to help you cultivate meaningful connections and thrive. This empowering guide can help you get started. Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD translates the neuroscience behind ADHD into practical skills for improving your communication and building better relationships.
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Epilepsy for Dummies
by Elizabeth A. Thiele
A conversational guide to understanding and living with epilepsy Millions of people around the world have epilepsy, but the condition is widely misunderstood. Epilepsy For Dummies breaks through outdated stigmas surrounding this complex neurological disease. The book offers a 360-degree view by incorporating medical, social, and other perspectives to help you cope with epilepsy or support someone who has been diagnosed. You'll learn about triggers and risk factors, different types of seizures, and getting a diagnosis.
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Age Like a Girl: How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed Energy
by Mindy Pelz
If you're feeling foggy, overwhelmed, burned out, or like a stranger in your own mind and body, [this book] will help you understand why--and show you what's possible on the other side. ... Dr. Mindy Pelz reveals the ... science behind how menopause rewires your brain--and how this transformation is happening for you, not to you. What most women mistake as 'the beginning of the end' is actually a biologically designed brain and identity reset--one that can deliver greater confidence, clarity, and energy than you've felt in years. You're not falling apart. You're being rebuilt--from the inside out.
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Backyard Birds from Kingfishers to Jays: Detailed Information on the Top 100 Birds in North America
by Book Author
This volume is a celebration of birds, one of the best-loved animal groups. It catalogues a representative selection of more than 70 different species from various branches of the bird family tree, carefully chosen from all the major family groups.Wide-ranging text captures the essence of each species, providing fascinating information about its lifestyle and ecology.Beautiful, full-color artwork accompanies every species description, including both male and female plumages and birds in flight.Written by a team of experts, and checked and approved by eminent ornithologists from the USA, UK, and Australia.
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Welland birds and sea birds: from ospreys to puffins
by Rob Hume
This volume is a celebration of birds and a must have for any bird aficionado. It covers a representative selection of more than 170 different species that inhabit wetland and marine environments, selected from various branches of the bird family tree and carefully chosen to include examples from all the major family groups.
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Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways to Turn Your Yard and Garden Into a Haven for Your Favorite Birds
by Sally Roth
Anyone can create a beautiful and colorful backyard that will attract many different species of birds. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide will help serious and casual gardeners alike choose the specific plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees for attracting some of the best-loved backyard birds, including bluebirds, warblers, goldfinches, and cardinals. Readers will discover top plants for birds, profiles of more than fifty common backyard birds, special bird feeding and planting tips to attract specific birds, and other features making this book invaluable to gardeners and bird lovers alike!
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How to be a better birder
by Derek Lovitch
This unique illustrated handbook provides all the essential tools you need to become a better birder. Here Derek Lovitch offers a more effective way to go about identification―he calls it the "Whole Bird and More" approach―that will enable you to identify more birds, more quickly, more of the time. He demonstrates how to use geography and an understanding of habitats, ecology, and even the weather to enrich your birding experience and help you find something out of the ordinary. Lovitch shows how to track nocturnal migrants using radar, collect data for bird conservation, discover exciting rarities, develop patch lists―and much more. Explains the best practices for bird identification including using the weather, geography, and radar
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Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder : A Memoir
by Julia Zarankin
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder tells the story of finding meaning in midlife through birds. The book follows the peregrinations of a narrator who learns more from birds than she ever anticipated, as she begins to realize that she herself is a migratory species: born in the former Soviet Union, growing up in Vancouver and Toronto, studying and working in the United States and living in Paris. Coming from a Russian immigrant family of concert pianists who believed that the outdoors were for “other people,” Julia Zarankin recounts the challenges and joys of unexpectedly discovering one’s wild side and finding one’s tribe in the unlikeliest of places.
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