Ala'A's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:10:58 -0700 60 Ala'A's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[قوارب ورقية: نصوص ونصائح في الكتابة الأدبية]]> 207576771 ورشة كتابة مجانية، تقدم لنا مجموعة من القوارب المصنوعة من أشجار الحكمة، فنجد في كل قارب تجربة أو رأيًا أو حكاية، هكذا نجالس "إيتالو كالفينو"، نستمع إلى تأملات "هنري ميلر" عن الكتابة، تقرأ علينا "ليديا ديفيس" بعض نصوصها، نستمتع بتلاوة "ريكاردو بيجليا" لرؤاه عن القصة القصيرة، ويقدم لنا أدباء نوبل نصائح مهمة عن الكتابة وكيفية إدارة الوقت، ثم يتشابك راكبو القوارب متبادلين الاتهامات والتقريع، فنشاهد وجهًا آخر للكتّاب لا نعرفه من خلال كتاباتهم.]]> محمد عبد النبي Ala'A 0 to-read 3.92 قوارب ورقية: نصوص ونصائح في الكتابة الأدبية
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]]> حدائق الكلمات 56134042 63 سليمان العيسى 9953496366 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.00 2009 حدائق الكلمات
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]]> The Last Thing He Told Me 54981009
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a U.S. marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.]]> 307 Laura Dave 1501171348 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.78 2021 The Last Thing He Told Me
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]]> <![CDATA[What about Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-based Society]]> 22909587 HANIF KUREISHI

‘A remarkable book� What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society is one of those books that, by making connections between apparently distinct phenomena, permits sudden new insights into what is happening to us and why.�
GEORGE MONBIOT, The Guardian

In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe’s main concern is how social change has led to this psychic crisis and altered the way we think about ourselves. He investigates the effects of thirty years� acceptance of neo-liberalism, free-market forces, and privatisation, and the resulting relationship between our engineered society and individual identity. It turns out that who we are is, as always, determined by the context in which we live.

From his clinical experience as a psychotherapist, Verhaeghe shows the profound impact that social change is having on mental health, even to the extent of affecting the nature of the disorders from which we suffer. But his book ends on a note of cautious optimism. We can once again become masters of our fate � if we accept the challenge.]]> 272 Paul Verhaeghe 1922247375 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.92 2012 What about Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-based Society
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]]> لا أنام 3239371 ]]> 288 إحسان عبد القدوس Ala'A 0 to-read 3.90 1958 لا أنام
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]]> <![CDATA[We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection]]> 63850452
​In times of isolation, heartbreak, and brokenness, reaching out to each other, being in conversation, finding ways to connect with compassion and openness can help us heal and thrive. This powerful, positive guide coaxes us to go beyond our individual and collective grief and courageously re-enter and reclaim our sense of community—which then further strengthens our spiritual practice.

Through spiritual teachings drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, mindfulness practices, rituals, resources, and journaling prompts in each chapter, Michelle Cassandra Johnson shows us how we can heal and facilitate healing; reclaim what it means to hold space and build community; find joy; connect to and summon support from our ancestors; connect with nature to strengthen and restore ourselves; and love, alchemize, dream, and conjure in community.

Examples of practices include journaling on what community means to you; meditation with a ritual object; progressive muscle relaxation; Yoga Nidra; and many more—all adapted for use alone or in a group. Includes simple, evocative line drawings by Vashon Island, WA-artist, Ivan Moy.]]> 224 Michelle Cassandra Johnson 1645471071 Ala'A 0 to-read 4.24 We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection
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]]> <![CDATA[رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر]]> 3831344
ولكن هذه الرحلة الفكرية، مع هذا، هى رحلة المؤلف الفردية، فهو الذى تفاعل مع ما حوله من تجارب منذ أن وُلد فى دمنهور ونشأ فيها إلى أن انتقل إلى الإسكندرية ومنها إلى نيويورك ثم أخيرًا إلى القاهرة حيث استقر به المقام. فإذا كانت هذه الرحلة الفكرية، سيرة غير ذاتية، فهى أيضًا سيرة غير موضوعية، سيرة إنسان يلتقي فى فضاء حياته الخاص بالعام، ولهذا فهو لا يذكر القضايا الفكرية المجردة وحسب، وإنما يشفعها دائمًا بأحداث من حياته أو اقتباسات من كتاباته تبين كيف ترجمت القضية الفكرية (العامة) نفسها إلى أحداث ووقائع محددة فى حياته الشخصية (الخاصة) وذلك بأسلوب المؤلف السلس والعميق والساخر. وهذه الطبعة الجديدة تتميز بعض الإضافات وأهمهما ملحق صور كبير يتناول رحلة المؤلف ومحطات حياته المختلفة.]]> 762 عبد الوهاب المسيري 9770912859 Ala'A 0 to-read 4.38 2000 رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر
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]]> فوضى الحواس 2501455 375 Ahlam Mosteghanemi 9953890579 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.78 1997 فوضى الحواس
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]]> <![CDATA[What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings]]> 986171
Dr. Holinger decodes the nine easily identifiable signals—interest, enjoyment, surprise, distress, anger, fear, shame, disgust (a reaction to bad tastes), and dissmell (a reaction to bad smells)—that all babies use to express their needs and wants. These insights will aid parents in discerning what their baby is feeling. This book can help all parents become more confident and self-aware in their interactions with their children, create positive communication, and put the joy back into parenting.

This is a unique work. It provides a foundation for understanding feelings and behavior. Based on emerging research, What Babies Say Before They Can Talk offers parents a new perspective on their babies' sense of the world and the people around them. The goal of this book is to help parents enhance their infants' potential, prevent problems, and raise happy, healthy, responsible children.]]> 288 Paul C. Holinger 0743406672 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.75 2003 What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings
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]]> ‫مهارا� الحياة� 54148334 الذى يتعامل مع الأشخاص الأصحاء لكي يكتسبوا مزيداً من مهارات الحياة الوجدانية والعلاقاتية تؤهلهم للحياة بشكل أكثر استقراراً وابداعاً وتقيهم شر الإضطرابات النفسية والإنحرافات السلوكية التي ربما يتعرضون لها بسبب الضغوط النفسية والإجتماعية الشديدة الواقعة بشكل متزايد على البشر في كل مكان.
هذا الكتاب هو محاولة لرسم خارطة طريق لهذه المهارات وشرحها وتقديم تدريبات عليها. وكأي تدريب على مهارات يحتاج الأمر إلى ممارسة وتكرار ويُفضّل استخدامه في إطار تعليمي وتدريبي, لذلك فإن هذا الكتاب نشأ كدليل كدليل لمدارس مهارات الحياة الوجدانية التي بدأت خلال السنوات الأربع الأخيرة.]]> 124 أوسم وصفي 9059501659 Ala'A 0 currently-reading 4.36 2012 ‫مهارات الحياة‬
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]]> أول محاولات المواجهة 51468362 96 محمد خيري 9776673082 Ala'A 0 to-read 5.00 أول محاولات المواجهة
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]]> <![CDATA[أيها الصديق: رحلة تدبر مع سورة يوسف]]> 53355757 قد لاتخطر لنا على بال.
في ثنايا كلمات التنزيل.
زرعها ثلةٌ من الأكابر.
حصدها لنا .. في عباراتٍ تدبريةٍ مقتضبة.
نقرؤها مرة بعد مرة, فيصبح اصطياد المعاني عندنا عادة.]]> 197 محمد خيري Ala'A 0 to-read 4.42 2019 أيها الصديق: رحلة تدبر مع سورة يوسف
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]]> الطريق الي القران 33801372 سطوة القرآن ، تأمل .. كيف انبهروا ، منازل الأشعريين ،
القلوب الصخرية ، الشاردون ، تطويل الطريق ، من مناطق التدبر ، كل المنهج في أم الكتاب ، دوي الليالي الرمضانية ، الحبل الناظم في كتاب الله

وخاتمة يتناول الكتاب القرآن في حياتنا

تنبض بين صفحاته غيرة ورغبة في إيقاظ الأمة كلماته عذبة وتأملاته غاية في الجمال والروعة له وقفات تأملية في استشعار ذكر الله في كل الأحوال]]> 117 إبراهيم عمر السكران Ala'A 0 to-read 4.21 2012 الطريق الي القران
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]]> <![CDATA[ما وراء التعذيب: الجوانب النفسية والسياسية]]> 12963440 حين يمارسون التعذيب، حيث أنهم نادرا ما يتقدمون بالشكوى من
كونهم يمارسون التعذيب، إلا أن هذا الكتيب يحاول أن يلقي
الضوء على الآليات النفسية التي يستخدمها القائمون على
التعذيب من أجل تبرير أفعالهم أو تحصين أنفسهم من الشعور
بالذنب وبفداحة ما ارتكبوه من جرم، وهي آليات تستند إلى حد
كبير على الخلفية السياسية والنظام السياسي الذي يدعم هؤلء
ويقدم لهم الحماية والتغطية على ممارساتهم.

كذلك يتعامل الكتيب مع التعذيب على اعتبار أنه ظاهرة تمس
الجنس البشري كله، لم يقتصر فيها على بلد دون الآخر فجاء
بذلك ليعكس حقيقة مؤلمة وهي أن التعذيب ليس اختراعا بشريا
فحسب، وإنما هو أيضا ظاهرة عالمية، بل أنه قد يكون من
المفارقات أن تأتي العولمة التي وعدتنا بتحويل العالم إلى قرية
صغيرة يملكها البشر جميعا بعولمة التعذيب والمعتقلات حيث لم
يعد من النادر أن نجد المواطنين ينقلون من بلد إلى بلد أخرى
بهدف تعذيبهم في ظل مراقبة شعبية أقل أو بحثا عن حماية
قانونية أعلى.

من مقدمة أ.د أحمد عكاشة.]]> 87 Basma Abdel Aziz Ala'A 0 to-read 3.67 2007 ما وراء التعذيب: الجوانب النفسية والسياسية
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]]> <![CDATA[سطوة النص: خطاب الأزهر وأزمة الحكم]]> 29364631 160 Basma Abdel Aziz Ala'A 0 to-read 3.67 سطوة النص: خطاب الأزهر وأزمة الحكم
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]]> <![CDATA[The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession]]> 61356231 The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book Release," Next Big Idea Club 2023 Must Read, and Kirkus “Most Buzzworthy Book Right Now"

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins

Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who grappled with a toxic staff clique at the big school in a small town; Miguel, a special ed teacher in the western United States who fought for his students both as an educator and as an activist; and Rebecca, an East Coast elementary school teacher who struggled to schedule and define a life outside of school.

Interspersed among the teachers' stories--a seeming scandal, a fourth-grade whodunit, and teacher confessions--are hard-hitting essays featuring cutting-edge reporting on the biggest issues facing teachers today, such as school violence; outrageous parent behavior; inadequate support, staffing, and resources coupled with unrealistic mounting demands; the "myth" of teacher burnout; the COVID-19 pandemic; and ways all of us can help the professionals who are central both to the lives of our children and the heart of our communities.]]> 372 Alexandra Robbins 1101986751 Ala'A 0 to-read 4.17 2023 The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
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]]> <![CDATA[It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self]]> 36585127 Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety. Bonnie was shut down, disconnected from her feelings. These patients all came to psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel seeking treatment for depression, but in fact none of them were chemically depressed. Rather, Jacobs Hendel found that they’d all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Jacobs Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and fulfillment through an empathic and effective therapeutic approach that draws on the latest science about the healing power of our emotions. Whereas conventional therapy encourages patients to talk through past events that may trigger anxiety and depression, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), the method practiced by Jacobs Hendel and pioneered by Diana Fosha, PhD, teaches us to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, guilt, and anxiety) that block core emotions (anger, sadness, fear, disgust, joy, excitement, and sexual excitement). Fully experiencing core emotions allows us to enter an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. In It’s Not Always Depression, Jacobs Hendel shares a unique and pragmatic tool called the Change Triangle—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. In these pages, she teaches lay readers and helping professionals alike � why all emotions—even the most painful—have value. � how to identify emotions and the defenses we put up against them. � how to get to the root of anxiety—the most common mental illness of our time. � how to have compassion for the child you were and the adult you are. Jacobs Hendel provides navigational tools, body and thought exercises, candid personal anecdotes, and profound insights gleaned from her patients� remarkable breakthroughs. She shows us how to work the Change Triangle in our everyday lives and chart a deeply personal, powerful, and hopeful course to psychological well-being and emotional engagement.]]> 296 Hilary Jacobs Hendel 0399588159 Ala'A 0 to-read 4.23 2018 It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self
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]]> <![CDATA[Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson]]> 6900
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.]]> 210 Mitch Albom Ala'A 5 The book gives me different perspective towards sickness and know there is the point you can't anymore beside being by your lover.]]> 4.19 1997 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
author: Mitch Albom
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average rating: 4.19
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This book I read during my Father's sick, it helps me grief and face the truth.
The book gives me different perspective towards sickness and know there is the point you can't anymore beside being by your lover.
]]> إحياء علوم الدين 7361323 رتبه رحمه الله على أربعة أقسام ، ومقدمة في العلم ، وبين في الربع الأول أحكام العبادات وكشف عن أسرارها ، وذكر آدابها وسننها والترغيب فيها ، وخصص الربع الثاني للعادات كالنكاح ، والأكل والكسب ، والحلال والحرام ، والصحبة والعزلة ، والمعاشرة والسفر ، والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر ، وبين فيه أسرار المعاملات الجارية بين الناس ، وأفرد الربع الثالث للمهلكات مثل عجائب القلب ورياض النفس ، وآفات شهوة البطن والفرج ، وآفات اللسان ، والغضب والحقد والحسد ، وذم الدنيا والمال والبخل ، وذم الجاه والرياء والكبر ، والعجب والغرور ، وعرض الأخلاق المذمومة ، لتزكية النفس عنها وتطهير القلب منها ، وشرح في الربع الرابع المنجيات ، كالتوبة ، والصبر ، والخوف من الله ، والرجاء ، والفقر والزهد ، والمحبة والإخلاص ، والصدق ومراقبة الله تعالى ، ومحاسبة النفس والتفكر ، وختمه بذكر الموت ، وشرح هذه الأخلاق المحمودة ، والخصائل المرغوبة للتقرب إلى الله تعالى بها.]]> 2039 Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Ala'A 0 currently-reading 4.41 1100 إحياء علوم الدين
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]]> <![CDATA[The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity]]> 615570 The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.]]> 237 Julia Cameron 1585421464 Ala'A 0 currently-reading 3.93 2002 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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]]> <![CDATA[Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters]]> 17331330 Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy.

In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering control, emotional neglect and abuse, these women are plagued by anxiety and depression, relationship problems, lack of confidence and difficulties with trust. They doubt their worth, and even their ability to love.

Forward examines the Narcissistic Mother, the Competitive Mother, the Overly Enmeshed mother, the Control Freak, Mothers who need Mothering, and mothers who abuse or fail to protect their daughters from abuse.

Filled with compelling case histories, Mothers Who Can’t Love outlines the self-help techniques Forward has developed to transform the lives of her clients, showing women how to overcome the pain of childhood and how to act in their own best interests.

Warm and compassionate, Mothers Who Can’t Love offers daughters the emotional support and tools they need to heal themselves and rebuild their confidence and self-respect.]]> 304 Susan Forward 0062204351 Ala'A 5 4.23 2014 Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
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]]> <![CDATA[Good with Words: Writing and Editing]]> 43909268 246 Patrick Barry 1607854740 Ala'A 0 currently-reading 4.08 Good with Words: Writing and Editing
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love]]> 54304221
Have you ever looked around and wondered, “Why has everyone found love except me?� You’re not the only one. Great relationships don’t just appear in our lives—they’re the culmination of a series of decisions, including whom to date, how to end it with the wrong person, and when to commit to the right one. But our brains often get in the way. We make poor decisions, which thwart us on our quest to find lasting love.

Drawing from years of research, behavioral scientist turned dating coach Logan Ury reveals the hidden forces that cause those mistakes. But awareness on its own doesn’t lead to results. You have to actually change your behavior. Ury shows you how.

This “simple-to-use guide� (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ) focuses on a different decision in each chapter, incorporating insights from behavioral science, original research, and real-life stories. You’ll learn:
-What’s holding you back in dating (and how to break the pattern)
-What really matters in a long-term partner (and what really doesn’t)
-How to overcome the perils of online dating (and make the apps work for you)
-How to meet more people in real life (while doing activities you love)
-How to make dates fun again (so they stop feeling like job interviews)
-Why “the spark� is a myth (but you’ll find love anyway)

This “data-driven� ( Time ), step-by-step guide to relationships, complete with hands-on exercises, is designed to transform your life. How to Not Die Alone will help you find, build, and keep the relationship of your dreams.]]> 352 Logan Ury 1982120622 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.97 2021 How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart]]> 50695158 A bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by "one of the world's leading thinkers" (The Observer) of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again

"A compelling vision for how we can bridge our many divides at this time of great change and disruption."--Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global

"An important new book."--The Economist

NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED (UK) AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Loneliness has become the defining condition of the twenty-first century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has it been more pervasive or more widespread, but never has there been more that we can do about it.

Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like "social distancing," the fabric of community was unraveling and our personal relationships were under threat. And technology isn't the sole culprit. Equally to blame are the dismantling of civic institutions, the radical reorganization of the workplace, the mass migration to cities, and decades of neoliberal policies that have placed self-interest above the collective good.

This is not merely a mental health crisis. Loneliness increases our risk of heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Statistically, it's as bad for our health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. It's also an economic crisis, costing us billions annually. And it's a political crisis, as feelings of marginalization fuel divisiveness and extremism around the world. But it's also a crisis we have the power to solve.

Combining a decade of research with firsthand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a "how to read a face" class at an Ivy League university to isolated remote workers in London during lockdown, from "renting a friend" in Manhattan to nursing home residents knitting bonnets for their robot caregivers in Japan.

Offering bold solutions ranging from compassionate AI to innovative models for urban living to new ways of reinvigorating our neighborhoods and reconciling our differences, The Lonely Century offers a hopeful and empowering vision for how to heal our fractured communities and restore connection in our lives.]]> 384 Noreena Hertz 0593135830 Ala'A 0 to-read 3.80 2021 The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart
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]]> Veronika Decides to Die 1431 The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.

Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.

The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

]]> 285 Paulo Coelho Ala'A 2 3.75 1998 Veronika Decides to Die
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]]> No More Mr. Nice Guy 97642 192 Robert A. Glover 0762415339 Ala'A 4 3.97 2000 No More Mr. Nice Guy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- And Start Standing Up for Yourself]]> 2859464 How women can overcome the pressure to please others and feel free to be their true selves Are you too nice for your own good? Do family members manipulate you? Do coworkers take advantage of you? If this sounds familiar, read The Nice Girl Syndrome. In this breakthrough guide, renowned author and therapist Beverly Engel, who has helped thousands of women recognize and leave emotionally abusive relationships, can show you how to take control of your life and take care of yourself.

Engel explains that women today simply cannot afford to be Nice Girls, because women who are too nice send the message that they are easy targets and are much more likely to be victimized emotionally, physically, and sexually. She identifies the seven different types of Nice Girls and helps you understand which type or types might apply to you. Engel helps you determine whether the Nice Girl Syndrome is keeping you in an abusive relationship or in manipulative situations and helps you change Nice Girl beliefs and behaviors that are holding you back.


Shows you how to confront the beliefs and behaviors that keep you stuck in a Nice Girl act as you replace them with healthier, more empowering ones Includes inspiring stories of women Engel has worked with who have found the courage and strength to stop taking abuse and start standing up for themselves "This book will challenge, entertain, and empower its readers."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Written by renowned author and therapist Beverly Engel, who has helped thousands of women recognize and leave emotionally abusive relationships Filled with wise advice, powerful exercises, and practical prescriptions, The Nice Girl Syndrome shows you step by step how to take control of your life and be your own strong woman.]]> 256 Beverly Engel 0470179384 Ala'A 5 3.82 2008 The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- And Start Standing Up for Yourself
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]]> <![CDATA[It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle]]> 26026054
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited—that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn’t Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score . Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood.

As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. It Didn’t Start With You is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch.]]> 256 Mark Wolynn 1101980362 Ala'A 3 3.45 2016 It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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]]> Nothing Was the Same 6386100
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.

A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.]]> 224 Kay Redfield Jamison 0307265374 Ala'A 5 3.83 2009 Nothing Was the Same
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide]]> 33832 Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide� "a powerful book [that] will change people’s lives—and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).

The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in particular�Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind—and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression—Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind.]]> 448 Kay Redfield Jamison 0375701478 Ala'A 5 4.11 1999 Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
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]]> <![CDATA[An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness]]> 361459 NATIONAL BESTSELLER � A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.]]> 240 Kay Redfield Jamison 0679763309 Ala'A 5 4.06 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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