29 Gifts by Cami Walker

This is the powerful story of the author's struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and how a healer's unusual prescription of mindful altruism - to 'give away 29 gifts in 29 days' - ignited her energy, her happiness, and invited more abundance into her life.

At age 35, Cami Walker was burdened by a newly intense struggle with Multiple Sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that was leaving her unable to walk, work, relate to others, or enjoy her life.

Depressed after being hospitalized several times in just a few months, she received an uncommon 'prescription' from an African healer.

The remedy? Give away 29 things to others in 29 days. The gifts could be anything, but one should be something she felt was scarce in her life or she couldn't live without.

'By giving', Mbali told her, 'you are focusing on what you have to offer others...inviting more abundance into your life. Giving of any kind begins the process of change and will shift your energy for life'.

Indeed, Walker was amazed by the wonderful physical, emotional, and spiritual changes that manifested during her 29-day giving journey.

Many gifts Walker gave to others were simple-a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. But the acts were transformative.

By Day 29, Walker's health and happiness had improved dramatically and she had created a worldwide giving movement.

"29 Gifts" is the inspiring, insightful tale of the author's life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving.

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Mojo by Marshall Goldsmith

Mojo is the concept of positive momentum: success building upon success.

It anchors our self-esteem, shapes our careers and influences those around us. Now the worldÂ’s pre-eminent executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, can help you master it.

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`Well-organised and practical, with lots of tools that can help you be more successful and happier in life.' -- Toronto Globe and Mail

"Easy to read, engrossing and inspiring" Gulf --Gulf Business

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In an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership.

She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.

Joanne Baker studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and took her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is a physical science editor at Science magazine, where her speciality is space and earth science.

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50 Philosophy Ideas

Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world?

Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master?

If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper

. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, "50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know" introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness,

identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.

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Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 A.M. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.

A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realizes it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.

So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile.

And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

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Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met.

Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.)

But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, who - after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing - gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.

Gilbert's memoir - destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage - is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.

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