BOOKS AND REVIEWS

Rating 5/5 - Advanced: Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.
Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.

Beginners: Renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes cutting-edge research  and the latest surprising, effective "brain prescriptions" that can  help heal your brain and change your life: to quell anxiety and panic, to fight depression, to curb anger, to conquer impulsiveness and learn to focus, and finally to stop obsessive worrying. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow—yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD, each requiring a different treatment. Now, in this all-new, revised edition, Dr. Amen again employs the latest medical advances in the field, including the largest brain imaging study ever completed on patients with ADD, to identify, examine, and demystify the 7 distinct types of ADD and their specific treatments. Rating 4/5

Intermediate: Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Rating 4.5/5

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Beginners: The acknowledged expert in the psychology of  change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the  fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover  your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces  that shape your destiny.If customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. Clearly list and describe the services you offer. Also, be sure to showcase a premium service. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this  book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success  in their business and personal lives. 

Now this previously revised  and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first  time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next  century! Rating 4/5

Beginners: Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back. Rating 4.5/5

Intermediate: Why do you act the way you do? Do you ever feel like you get stuck in destructive cycles that hold you back from living the life you really want? In a dynamic, compelling and aha-filled journey, Stop Doing That Sh*t helps you connect the dots of your “stuff” all the way from your past to the present. You’ll make sense of yourself as you uncover how to interrupt those destructive cycles of yours and make the kind of profound shift needed to get your life on track. Rating 5/5

Beginners: Dr. Peterson  journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and  responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: In this generation-defining self-help guide, a  superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying  to be positive all the time so that we can truly become better, happier  people. For decades we've been told that positive thinking is  the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says.  "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his  wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He  tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is  sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his  antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected  modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold  medals just for showing up.  Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass  will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and  behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it now. Rating 4/5

Intermediate: Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of  the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. This work contains  the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of 12 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: Are you tired of feeling fu*ked up? If you are, Gary John Bishop has the answer. In this straightforward handbook, he gives you the tools and advice you need to demolish the slag weighing you down and become the truly unfu*ked version of yourself. Rating 4.5/5

Beginners: The Motivation Manifesto is a pulsing, articulate, ferocious call to claim our personal power. World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom. We desire the grand liberties of choice—time freedom, emotional freedom, social freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom. Only two enemies stand in our way: an external enemy, defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses, and an internal enemy, a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt and fear. Rating 5/5

Beginners: Learn the proven, time-tested principles to breaking your worry habits—now and forever—with Dale Carnegie’s expert advice so you can start living your best carefree life today. With Dale Carnegie’s timeless advice in hand, more than six million people have learned how to eliminate debilitating fear and worry from their lives and to embrace a worry-free future. Rating 4.5/5

Beginner: The compound effect is the strategy of reaping huge rewards from small, seemingly insignificant actions. You cannot improve something until you measure it. Always take 100 percent responsibility for everything that happens to you. Rating 4/5