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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise June 2018
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| The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Auto-Immune Response and... by Darin IngelsWhat it is: a patient-focused book exploring treatment options for Lyme Disease -- including lifestyle changes and supplements -- that are outside the scope of the Center for Disease Control's guidelines.
About the author: Darin Ingels is a naturopathic physician and a Lyme Disease patient.
Further reading: Readers looking for a more science-based book may want to try Conquering Lyme Disease by Brian Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky. |
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| How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life by Janice Kaplan and Barnaby Marsh What it is: an optimistic guide for how best to seize opportunities as they come your way.
What's inside: a helpful blend of scientific findings, interviews with successful people, and common sense advice.
Don't miss: anecdotes of famous lucky breaks -- like George Lucas hiring his carpenter (a young Harrison Ford) to star in American Graffiti. |
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Willpower Doesn't Work : Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
by Benjamin Hardy
What it's about: We rely on willpower to create change in our lives...but what if we're thinking about it all wrong? In Willpower Doesn't Work , Benjamin Hardy explains that willpower is nothing more than a dangerous fad-one that is bound to lead to failure. Instead of "white-knuckling" your way to change, you need to instead alter your surroundings to support your goals. This book shows you how.
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The Recovering : Intoxication and Its Aftermath
by Leslie Jamison
What it's about: The best-selling author of The Empathy Exams presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of genius artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
Reviewers say: "The dark humor, evocative prose, and clear-eyed, heartfelt insights Jamison deploys here only underscore her reputation as a writer of fearsome talent."
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| The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe... by Kevin D. Mitnick with Robert VamosiWhat it is: a practical step-by-step guide to protecting your privacy online.
Did you know? Author Kevin D. Mitnick, a cybersecurity expert, spent three years evading the FBI for his hacking abilities, an experience he recounts in his memoir Ghost in the Wires.
Reviewers say: "A highly useful handbook for how not to be seen --online, anyway" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson
What it is: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
Why you might like it: The authors' optimistic tone also recalls Marx's voice, persuasively arguing that technological advance may lead to a Utopian society
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The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution
by Walter Isaacson
What it is: The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
Reviewers say: Isaacson manages to bring together the entire universe of computing, from the first digitized loom to the web, presented in a very accessible manner that often reads like a thriller.
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