页数： 192 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-5-4

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英文简介: Free Yourself from Stress with Simple, No-Nonsense Advice from a Zen Monk!

Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the things we are supposed to strive for and turns them on their head. The 35 short, thought-provoking essays in this book are divided into four chapters about our sense of self, our hopes and dreams, our personal relationships and how to face death. Each essay begins with a deliberately controversial point of view to help us look at life’s problems through fresh eyes.

Each chapter features a number of short, thought-provoking essays providing fresh perspectives on familiar problems that can change your life! The essays include:

- People Can Live Without Dreams and Hopes
- You Don’t Have to Be "Who You Want to Be"
- When Your Head Is Full of Anger, Do Routine Work
- Do Things for Yourself, Not for Others
- It’s Natural for Life to Be Negative
- If It’s Not a Life or Death Problem, You Can Handle It
- People Can Be Saved Just by Speaking Their True Feelings
- Wanting Things Creates Anxiety
- If You Grieve as Much as You Want To, the Time Will Come When You Can Laugh
- A Person with Good Relationships Passes Away Beautifully

Although the author’s messages may seem harsh at first, his teachings help us reduce anxiety in our daily lives. Being bound by the belief that "I have to do X" or "I need to achieve Y" causes immense stress. The author encourages us to accept our reality and live our lives from that starting point. This, he believes will free us from anxiety, relationship problems and negative emotions.

This book has been a huge hit in Japan, with reader comments such as:

"I realized that I had made my life difficult by thinking, I always have to be ambitious about my work." (Female, age 50)

"I was deeply moved by the idea that you don’t have to find the meaning of life. This is a book I cherish." (Male, age 34)

页数： 320 到书日期： 2024-4-24 上传日期： 2024-4-23

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英文简介: Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell

Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she’s fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth.

However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she’s found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human. Homily is kind and nurturing and would make an excellent co-parent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshen’s eggs so their young could devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, she realizes humans don’t think about love that way.

Shesheshen hates keeping her identity secret from Homily, but just as she’s about to confess, Homily reveals why she’s in the area: she’s hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?

Eating her girlfriend isn’t an option. Shesheshen didn’t curse anyone, but to give herself and Homily a chance at happiness, she has to figure out why Homily’s twisted family thinks she did. As the hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, Shesheshen must unearth the truth quickly, or soon both of their lives will be at risk.

And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with, rather than in, the love of her life.

页数： 0 到书日期： 2024-4-18 上传日期： 2024-4-18

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英文简介: The wellness retreat to die for – and maybe you will . . .

No one in Lily Lennox’s life can understand why each of the past five summers, she has shut her successful business and chosen instead to be paid minimum wage life-guarding at the exclusive Riovan Wellness Resort on a sun-soaked Caribbean island.

Fortunately for her, they also aren’t aware of the mysterious deaths that have occurred on the island every time she’s there.

Lily always does her best not to attract attention. After all, if your mission is murder, it’s best not to draw suspicious eyes. But this year a very attractive guest and podcaster, Daniel Black, is asking a few too many inconvenient questions.

Is he there to hunt her down? And if so, how will she manage her growing attraction towards him at the same time as getting away with murder?

页数： 384 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-4-3

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页数： 368 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-4-3

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页数： 168 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-4-3

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英文简介: Find hope on the path to healing with this compassionate guide.

If you are a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, the first thing you should know is that it wasn’t your fault. As a child, you put your trust in others, and they betrayed that trust. The effects of this breach of trust are devastating, far-reaching, and if you are still struggling with the aftermath of this violation as an adult, you are not alone—and there is nothing wrong with you. But there is hope for healing. This workbook will help you move past the trauma of your experience and take charge of your life.

Grounded in evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this powerful workbook for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse will help you identify your trauma triggers, balance intense emotions, and cultivate self-awareness. With this gentle guide, you’ll also learn how to develop positive coping strategies, discover what is truly important to you, set goals, and build hope for the future.

Self-awareness and self-reflection are key components to healing the invisible wounds left behind by childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Filled with journaling exercises, check-in prompts, and mindfulness activities, this step-by-step workbook will help you process and move past what happened to you, so you can focus on your future.168

页数： 256 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: Women have fought their way to the top in fields that have been male dominated for years, yet, they still face challenges in gaining investment, being acknowledged as experts and being included at the highest level. With the growth in AI it is more important than ever that women’s voices are heard to avert the inherent sex bias and misogyny of our culture being perpetuated. 50 Women in Technology sheds light on the work of forgotten pioneers who defied expectations and broke new ground working in health, IT, maths, genetics, astronomy and many others.

It also includes 25 exclusive interviews with women who are at the forefront today, developing new products and making discoveries in the fast-paced world of technology including 2023 Nobel prize-winner Katalin Karikó; plus: Amalia Ballarino (Nuclear Engineer), Ana Oliveira (Crop Genetics), Anaïs Engelmann and Meghan Hale (Design Engineering), Anda Waluyo Sapardan (Medical Tech/Healthcare), Anna Lukasson-Herzig (Computing/AI), Brenda Romero (Video Games), Clarice Phelps (Nuclear Chemist), Claudia Brind -Woody (IT), Emily Holmes (Neuroscientist). Gretchen Andrew (NFT Artist), Ida Tin (FemTech), Kasia Gora (Food Tech), Marita Cheng (Robotics), Mary Lou Jepsen (Imaging/Healthcare), Odunayo Eweniyi (Financial Tech), Rumman Chowdhury (Internet Algorithms/Data Science), Sheri Graner Ray (Videogames), Stephanie Willerth, (Bioengineering), Tan Le (Medical Tech) and Yewande Akinola (Sustainability), Erica Kang (crypto), Maria Carolina Fujihara (Decarbonisation), Mary Agbesanwa (fintech), Coty Craven (gaming accessibility), Morenike Fajemisin (FemTech).

页数： 168 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: Have you ever wondered why you can’t summon the energy to declutter those piles of clothes on the floor? Do you wish you knew what policies your workplace could offer so everyone can think more clearly and feel better at work? Or maybe you’ve felt confused about which ideas even deserve your attention right now? You’re not alone. And if you are ready for a change, this book is for you.

Coming from a public health expert who spent over two decades designing health initiatives around the world, Decluttered is a mindful exploration of how and why clutter manifests in our lives–and what we can do about it. Jenny Albertini invites readers to explore decluttering from personal and empathetic angles while acknowledging how clutter does not only manifest as "stuff" in our homes, but also in our relationships and in our everyday lives.

Blending stories and science with writing prompts and creativity exercises, this book will motivate readers to examine their relationship to their surroundings while reducing clutter for their health, in their homes, in their workplaces, and beyond. Jenny shares her own transformative journey of working in clinics in Africa and training under Marie Kondo, along with inspirational moments with clients from her years as professional organizer.

Decluttered will leave its readers feeling:

• Enlightened about underlying health issues related to clutter;
• Aware of what to prioritize for their decluttering journey; and
• Ready to take tangible steps that improve their work lives, home environments, and relationships.

A refreshing addition to the well-being and home genres, Decluttered helps to reduce shame and supports readers to transform their cluttered lives and spaces into foundations for healthy, balanced and intentional living.

Welcome to your world, decluttered.

页数： 350 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: 1858: The Malay Archipelago. In the remote tropics a young British naturalist, Alfred Wallace, toils in obscurity. He collects specimens: beetles, moths, ants and birds that sell for pennies apiece in England.

One night, suffering from fever and hallucination, Wallace solves the greatest mystery of the era: the origin of species. To circulate his discovery, he contacts a distant acquaintance Charles Darwin. Unbeknownst to Wallace, Darwin has been secretly penning a near-identical version of the same evolutionary theory for twenty years. Darwin soon achieves world-renown and Wallace earns, if nothing else, widespread grudging respect. But then Wallace returns to England where his advocacy for ideas ranging from socialism to spiritualism launches him on a collision course with the men at the very heart of the scientific establishment, including Darwin.

The Evolutionist tells of one man’s determination to seek out his own truths in his own unique way and the price he pays. From oppressive jungle to mid-Victorian London, this is a disturbing tale of money, class, faith and discrimination.

页数： 362 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: A Japanese American boy born just before Pearl Harbor joins the Army and is thrust into the maelstrom of Vietnam. Drawn to intelligence work, his watchword is "Intoku," Japanese for "good done in secret."

Ishimoto is recruited by the legendary Colonel Charlie Beckwith to be a founder of Delta Force, the legendary elite Special Operations unit. He is on the ground in Iran for the Desert One disaster during Operation Eagle Claw, the ill-fated bid to rescue American hostages in Tehran. A Japanese American boy born just before Pearl Harbor joins the Army and is thrust into the maelstrom of Vietnam. Drawn to intelligence work, his watchword is "Intoku," Japanese for "good done in secret."

Ishimoto is recruited by the legendary Colonel Charlie Beckwith to be a founder of Delta Force, the legendary elite Special Operations unit. He is on the ground in Iran for the Desert One disaster during Operation Eagle Claw, the ill-fated bid to rescue American hostages in Tehran.

Part memoir of a remarkable life, this book will also be a valuable addition to Special Operations history as well as a practical guide to navigating extreme situations. Part memoir of a remarkable life, this book will also be a valuable addition to Special Operations history as well as a practical guide to navigating extreme situations.