|
|
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2023 |
|
|
|
|
| Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause And How to Feel Like... by Jancee DunnWhat's inside: a humorous and candid exploration of menopause, its cultural implications, and research into the latest tools and tips to navigate one of life's biggest changes.
Read it for: the informative interviews with medical professionals; the emphasis placed on dispelling misinformation; the handy appendix of authoritative resources included at the end.
You might also like: The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan P. Mattern; The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter. |
|
|
|
Born to run 2 : the ultimate training guide
by Christopher McDougall
"From the best-selling author and renowned coach duo from Born to Run, a fully illustrated, practical guide to running for everyone from amateurs to seasoned runners, about how to eat, race, and train like the world's best"
|
|
|
|
How basketball can save the world : 13 guiding principles for reimagining what's possible
by David Adam Hollander
"A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball-and the values rooted in the game-can solve today's most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University course NBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and other cultural figures have all dropped by New York University Professor David Hollander's course "How Basketball Can Save the World" course to debate and give insights on how the underlying principles of the game can provide a new blueprint for addressing our diverse challenges and showing what's possible beyond the courts."
|
|
| Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today by Hal HershfieldWhat it is: a well-researched examination of short and long-term thinking and how to make choices that benefit us most in the future.
Read it for: the practical advice, which is presented in a well-organized and engaging format.
Reviewers say: "An encouraging, practical guide for decision-making" (Kirkus Reviews). |
|
| Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations by Sam HornWhat's inside: an upbeat guide to communicating in the face of unknown social dynamics, in particular when potential conflict is part of the possible fallout.
Topics include: proactive vs. reactive responses; growing a thicker skin; and how to use your tone to set and maintain your communication boundaries.
For fans of: Why Are We Yelling by Buster Benson; Connect by David L. Bradford. |
|
|
|
Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture
by Virginia Sole-Smith
Reveals the impact of our weight-centric society on children and explores how America's focus on“solving the childhood obesity epidemic” has perpetuated disordered eating and bodying hatred and offers empowering advice to navigate these challenges.
|
|
|
|
What's eating us : women, food, and the epidemic of body anxiety
by Cole Kazdin
Interviewing women across the country as well as the world's most renowned researchers, an Emmy-award winning journalist exposes the flawed diet industry and reveals disordered eating for the crisis that it is: a mental illness with the second highest mortality rate that no one wants to talk about. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
|
Return to nature : the new science of how natural landscapes restore us
by Emma Loewe
Provides a framework for reconnecting with the outdoors for the sake our health and our planet's that draws on new research from environmental psychology, biology and ecology on nature's healing benefits as well as the wisdom on the unquantifiable, spiritual power of the outdoors. Illustrations.
|
|
| All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford StaufferWhat it is: a thoughtful and well-researched exploration of ambition and how our modern understanding of it can harm our self-worth and leave us isolated.
Topics include: the pitfalls of "hustle" culture; the pressure to excel and how it can impact children from a young age; the social inequalities that existing measures for tracking academic achievement can exacerbate.
About the author: Rainesford Stauffer is a journalist who writes the "Work in Progress" column for Teen Vogue and regularly contributes to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Vox. |
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
1188 S. Livermore Avenue | Livermore, CA 94550 | (925) 373-5500
|
|
|
|