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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Health 2000	Ron Taylor	Describes how the body works and discusses the importance of keeping in good health. Also examines advances in medical technology and its impact on the future health of the population of the world.	OL11334588W
Disappearing desert	Janine Schipper	"Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city's expansion - at the rate of one acre per hour - comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environm…	OL11891727W
Detox your desk	Theo Theobald,Cary L. Cooper,Theo Theobald	Why is there never enough time in the day to do all the stuff you want to? Why does your in-tray just keep growing? Is it alive? Written for the time-starved and terminally untidy, Detox You…	OL12375299W
The complete idiot's guide to working less, earning more	Jeff Cohen	A down-to-earth resource for a more-for-me life.Through practical information from an author who works about three days a week, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Working Less, Earning More will help rea…	OL13753961W
There's More to Life Than the Corner Office	Lamar Smith	When you're working in the fast lane, it's easy to keep your eye trained on personal performance, profitable deals, and every rung of the corporate ladder.But what happens when your climb to success …	OL15173701W
Human Development in the Twenty-First Century	Alan Fogel	How do human beings develop and function in relation to the human and natural world? The science of dynamic systems focuses on connections and relationships between people rather than on individual a…	OL15184451W
Juggling Elephants	Jones Loflin	Written for anyone struggling with 'getting it all done', Juggling Elephants is a parable about one man's experience with the circus. While watching the performance, Mark chooses to become the 'ringm…	OL15185262W
Arborização urbana & qualidade de vida	Osmar Pires Martins Júnior	1ª Parte - Caracterização do Município e Descrição do Projeto Goiânia 2ª Parte - Urbanismo e meio ambiente: o exemplo de Goiânia 3ª Parte - O homem, o clima e o ecossistema urbano 4ª Parte - Resul…	OL15442253W
Health-related quality of life	Erik C. Hoffmann	"In public health and in medicine, the concept of health-related quality of life refers to a person or group's perceived physical and mental health over time. Physicians have often used health-relate…	OL15567449W
Young professionals and city neighborhoods	Parkman Center	...presents issues that emerge from recent new migration of young professionals to and from cities; discusses reasons for their choice and their feelings about city life; emphasis is on Boston neighb…	OL15691418W
The art of being a woman	Véronique Vienne	Explains how to eliminate everyday negativity in order to bring more joy into life, with inspirational tips on the art of loving life, while emphasizing that the true definition of success lies in ho…	OL16062099W
God never blinks	Regina Brett	When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in all the wrong places,…	OL17652676W
Utopía para realistas	Rutger Bregman	From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through hi…	OL17686237W
Factfulness	Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling	Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s populati…	OL17877260W
The best care possible	Ira Byock	It is harder to be seriously ill - and much harder to die - than ever before. These days, we effectively treat diseases, but often overlook the priorities of the people who are ill. As a result, too …	OL17916473W
Community	Rosemarie Rizzo Parse	xi, 163 p. : 23 cm	OL1834328W
Seeing the elephant	Peter Marber	Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In Seeing the Elephant, autho…	OL1856976W
Palaces for the people	Eric Klinenberg	"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on share…	OL19753504W
The speed trap	Joseph V. Bailey	Between work, play, family, and friends, most of us feel like we're speeding along at 100 miles an hour. Our lives are full, yet we don't feel fulfilled. One solution is to slam on the brakes and ado…	OL1991087W
Affluenza	John De Graaf	We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. This book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endle…	OL19975429W