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Discover a more mindful, resilient, and adaptive perspective of the world with "Shifting Paradigms: Uncover the Secrets of a Growth Mindset". This comprehensive guide aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of what it means to have a growth mindset, its origin, and how it differs from a fixed mindset.Delve into the science behind the concept, exploring insights from psychology and neuroscience. The book further explains how the cultivation...

Dans le vaste royaume du langage, les mots ne sont pas de simples éléments syntaxiques, mais des créateurs d'émotions, des sculpteurs de l'âme humaine. Ils transcendent le simple acte de communication pour devenir les architectes de nos expériences les plus intimes. Certains de ces mots, tels des artisans de la pluie, ont le pouvoir de déclencher des larmes, d'insuffler une mélancolie qui se répand comme une brume émotionnelle. D'autres,...

It is already clear that the creative principles we are using to guide our abstractions and to conceive the reality around us are obsolete and in urgent need of revision. Inspired by the holographic paradigm, as well as by some other concepts from quantum physics, this book suggests an alternative and contra-intuitive path, to help us reach the best results with the least effort in everything we do. But, it all comes at a price: the change in our...

Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she kept it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The Firebird," claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine, it's a problem. There's no proof. But Nicola's held the object. She knows the woman is telling the truth.

Collects three dystopian novellas set in the world of the author's "Darkest minds" series, in which familiar and new characters struggle to survive and maintain hope in harrowing circumstances.

Movie mogul Eddie Archer's son is charged with the grisly murder. Eddie calls agent Sean Cameron, who specializes in irregular investigation. As part of an FBI paranormal forensic team, Cameron knows that nightmares aren't limited to the silver screen. Working with special-effects artist Madison Darvil--who has her own otherwordly gifts--Cameron delves into the malecolent force animating more that one movie monster....

"Sisters Anie and Fia have had their abilites manipulated by the Keane Foundation for too long--and now they're ready to fight back against the twisted organization that has been using them as pawns"--

The New York Times bestselling authors of Freakonomics offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms.

If you want to score, you have to get in the game... Jenna runs the family's sports bar-- whether she likes it or not. When pro hockey stud Tyler walks in, he's intrigued by her beauty, and senses that Jenna wants something more out of life. Does she have the passion to take a shot at having it all... including Tyler?

"Angela Constantine is a girl born broken. When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability, she was a rather ordinary girl. At least, that was what everyone said. But Angela is anything but ordinary. The daughter of a meth addict, she is convinced she was born a freak. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. And in the process, she became more. Angela Constantine has a secret life. Angela...