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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The procrastinator's guide to success	Lynn Lively	Everyone procrastinates. The question is, is doing nothing working for you or against you? Author Lynn Lively, a self-confessed (but reformed) procrastinator, will help you get to where you want to g…	OL112511W
Market-driven thinking	Arch G Woodside	Market-Driven Thinking provides a useful mental model and tools for learning about how executives and customers think within marketplace contexts. When the need to learn about how executives and cust…	OL11595525W
Soul pain	Helen K. Black	"Soul Pain explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer for a variety of reasons, including illness, loss, life disappointment, and life experiences related to ge…	OL11637945W
Désir nomade	Véronique Elfakir	La littérature de voyage est ici abordée à travers une approche psychanalytique qui permet de déployer la question du rapport du sujet au désir et à l'inconscient, et qui interroge en fait sa propre …	OL11802760W
The alchemy of loss	Abigail Carter	From Publishers Weekly Carter's husband, C. Arron Dack, was probably in Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center, when the planes hit on 9/11. Although she hoped he'd mirac…	OL12027356W
La rigolothérapie	Paule Desgagnés	Pour vous débarrasser de votre stress et rester en bonne santé, pourquoi pas la thérapie du rire.	OL13564999W
Glory and terror	Antoine de Baecque	"Fully engaging our fascination with the macabre, Glory and Terror illustrates how certain corpses became highly charged political symbols during the course of the French Revolution. Arguing that the…	OL15278178W
The Middle Passage	James Hollis	Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and t…	OL15838340W
The psychology of religion and spirituality for clinicians	Everett L. Worthington,Jamie D. Aten,Kari Ann O'Grady	"The purpose of this edited book is to provide mental health practitioners with a functional understanding of the empirical literature on the psychology of religion and spirituality, while at the sam…	OL16604717W
David and Goliath	Malcolm Gladwell	We all know that underdogs can win -- that's what the David versus Goliath legend tells us, and we've seen it with our own eyes. Or have we? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell, with his unparalle…	OL16809805W
Law, justice, and the individual in society	June Louin Tapp,Felice J. Levine	"Published for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues."	OL17858180W
Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes	Adrian Tomer,Grafton Eliason,Paul T. P. Wong	Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical m…	OL18397916W
The obsession	Kim Chernin	The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have e…	OL1846389W
The third man factor	John Geiger	The third man factor is a riveting scientific and historical analysis of an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, sense an incorporeal being besid…	OL18564136W
Starving to win	O'Brien, Eileen	Explains why many young athletes are vulnerable to eating disorders and what they can do to prevent them.	OL1869874W
The runner's handbook	Bob Glover	If you're a runner, or would like to be one, The Runner's Handbook will answer all your questions. Fitness expert Bob Glover-who has trained thousands of runners-shows you how to devise a training pr…	OL1935828W
Masquerade and identities	Efrat Tseëlon	Masquerade is now a central topic in many disciplines. This text explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing, or representing marginalised identities.	OL19450446W
Strangers drowning	Larissa MacFarquhar	"What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate …	OL19662622W
Felt time	Marc Wittmann	We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we there yet?") Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing). As people grow …	OL19762956W
Ensemble mais seuls	Christophe Fauré	A partir du sentiment de solitude-isolement vécu par des couples, C. Fauré aide à comprendre ces malentendus au sein de la vie quotidienne. Il propose des outils pour accepter la solitude avec un tra…	OL19847672W