Great pocket sized dictionary. Very helpful for Spanish classes. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

World Languages

A Handy Guide to Essential Spanish and English Vocabulary

"A compact guide to essential Spanish and English vocabulary. Over 40,000 entries including English pronunciations given in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Bidirectional: English to Spanish and Spanish to English."

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Spanish-English Dictionary

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#romance #relationships #love #marriage #paperback 

Cracking the Communication Code with Your Mate

A Revolutionary Solution to the #1 Marriage Problem Why does communication between couples remain the number one marriage issue? "Because," says Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, "most spouses don't know that they speak two different languages. They are sending each other messages in 'code,' but they won't crack that code until they see that she listens to hear the language of love and he listens to hear the language of respect." Dr. Eggerichs' best-selling book, Love & Respect, launched a revolution in how couples relate to each other. In The Language of Love & Respect, he presents a practical, step-by-step approach for how husbands and wives can learn to speak each other's distinctly different language--respect for him, love for her. The result is mutual understanding and a successful, happy marriage. Previously released as Cracking the Communication Code

The Language of Love and Respect

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A college professor at the university of Michigan signed and gave this to me. Helpful information. #paperback #college #student #selfhelp #psychology 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Guide for Success in Work and Life

In over 45 years as a practicing psychologist, social entrepreneur, and professor, I have learned that emotional intelligence is the key to success in work and in life. I also know that becoming more self-aware is the key to developing strong emotional intelligence.

I have taught, coached, and counseled people on how to become more self-aware and how to develop their social-emotional competencies. Both activities lead to higher emotional intelligence.

This book presents the best practices developed and delivered in my teaching and in my psychology practice. Some of the stories and exercises in this book came from my previous book Balanced Leadership in Unbalanced Times (2009). I published some of the stories and exercises as articles on my blog at RobPasick.com. Please visit as I will continue to write there.

I wrote this book because not everyone who needs this information is here at the University of Michigan to take my class. While it's nice to have a teacher and coach to help you through the process, you can learn a lot by yourself through reading this book and working on its exercises.

If you follow the process, you'll end up with a self-made vision for success in both work and life. Furthermore, you will learn to set goals and develop the support that will enable you to make your dreams come true.

How to Use this Book

This book reflects the process I use in my coaching and teaching. You will be asked to read, reflect, answer questions, and engage actively in a series of exercises. Some exercises will require the participation of significant people in your life.

You will be guided through exercises designed to:

 * Help you find your career sweet spot.
 * Establish a vivid vision of your dream success in career and life.
 * Establish goals in the key spheres of your life: family, friends, mind, body, spirit, career, and community.
 * Determine how the right balance in these spheres will lead to choices that maximize your chances to be happy and successfully choose the right mate.
 * Better understand others.
 * Better manage your relationship with yourself.
 * Better manage your relationship with others.

Endorsements"When a successful person has 45 years of experience, and chooses to boil all he knows down to the essence, it is wise to pay attention. In this book, one of the most successful coaches I have ever known promises to mentor you into an elevated version of yourself. I think it is a must read."-Robert E. Quinn, Author of The Positive Organization"When Rob Pasick speaks, people listen...and when he writes, people want to read it...and that's because Rob has a clear mission in mind with all his words...he wants to help people put everything in their lives in perspective, in the proper place."Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life is a book that is clear, concise and easy to understand. It will make a difference in how you balance your professional and personal life and it may make a difference in what you end up doing. I have known Rob for years, and he is a wise and caring and ever so smart man who wants to guide young men and women, helping them to be the best they can be. Rob really cares and puts so much thought into realistic ways to have professional success and personal happiness. This is a book you won't want to miss!"-Cheryl Chodun, former TV news reporter, WXYZ, Detroit and Adjunct Professor at Madonna University. "Rob Pasick is a man of deep passion, compassion, and wisdom. Throughout these pages, all three are woven beautifully."-Michael H. Samuelson, Author of Beyond Cancer Survival: Living a Life of Thrival

Self-Aware

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THE BOOK THAT'S REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA

A groundbreaking prescription for reform--
from a legendary leader in innovation.

"Clear, entertaining, and provocative, The Innovator's Prescription should be read by anyone who cares about improving the health and health care of all."
―Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"Comprehensive in its vision, astute in its diagnosis, and clear in its guidance, The Innovator's Prescription offers strong medicine for a heath care system that is far from well."
--Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Our health care system is in critical condition. The Affordable Care Act has insured more Americans than ever, yet deductibles keep rising and costs continue to climb. Now more than ever, the industry needs a shot in the arm. It needs The Innovator's Prescription, the now-classic approach to efficient, affordable health care. Learn how to:

* Deliver personalized care at a lower cost with "precision medicine"
* Improve quality, accessibility, and affordability using a disruptive business model
* Enable better treatment of chronic diseases through patient networks
* Diagnose problems and find solutions faster using new technology
* Take advantage of insurance and regulatory reforms to provide the best care possible


The Innovator's Prescription: a Disruptive Solution for Health Care

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The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free

Now in tradepaper, New York Times bestseller breaks open the obesity mystery for using your brain as the key to weight loss. Bright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose their excess weight and keep it off. In this New York Times bestseller, available for the first time in paperback, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains how the brain blocks weight loss, causing people who are desperate to lose weight to fail again and again. Bright Line Eating (BLE) is a simple approach to reversing our innate blocks through four clear, unambiguous boundaries called "Bright Lines." You will learn: • The science of how the brain blocks weight loss, • How to bridge the willpower gap through making your boundaries automatic, • How to get started and the tools you can use to make the change last, and • A realistic lifestyle road map for staying on course. BLE enables you to shed pounds, release cravings, and stop sabotaging your weight loss by working from the bottom line that willpower cannot be relied on. By allowing you to focus on your specific cravings, BLE creates the path for your own personalized journey toward success.

Bright Line Eating

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil

A collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century to its abolition in 1888. "Conrad's Children of God's Fire [originally Princeton, 1984] provides abundant material for historians and students of African slavery in Brazil to understand what the slaves actually experienced. It is an invaluable contribution both to the scholarly examination of Brazilian slavery and to the evolving debate on comparative slave systems in the Americas. . . . Conrad's documentary collection makes the primary evidence of the real character of Brazilian slavery available to a much wider audience."-Latin American Research Review "Conrad's book will stand as an indispensable teaching aid for those anxious to flesh out existing monographs. The wealth of documents within his collection will surely enable students to look with profit at Brazilian slavery at the same time as they study the servile institution elsewhere in the Americas, where such materials have long been available. . . ."-Journal of Latin American Studies "By the publication of these 117 documents, most translated from the Portuguese, Robert Conrad has removed any reason for ignorance [about slavery in Brazil], for they represent an unrelieved chronicle of the oppression of one race by another. . . . Sources include British consular reports, travellers' narratives, newspaper advertisements, sermons, regional laws, Jesuit accounts, records of the Brazilian House of Deputies, and reports by a select committee of the British House of Lords and personal correspondence. Of special interest are seven documents attributable to persons of African descent. . . . This selection is a major contribution to the literature and is required reading for students of Brazilian history, of comparative colonialism and colonialism in the Americas, and of systems of slavery."-International History Review "A landmark in the historiography of slavery."-Journal of Social History

Children of God's Fire

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The Outsiders 

A great read for a college class that has annotations and highlights. #paperback #educational #feminism #sexism #popculture #womeninmedia #women #girls #college #womensstudies #socialscience 

How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. InThe Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics, takes readers on a spirited journey through the television programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage of recent years, telling a story that is nothing less than the cultural biography of a new generation of American women.

Revisiting cultural touchstones fromBuffy the Vampire Slayer toSurvivor toDesperate Housewives, Douglas uses wit and wisdom to expose these images of women as mere fantasies of female power, assuring women and girls that the battle for equality has been won, so there's nothing wrong with resurrecting sexist stereotypes--all in good fun, of course. She shows that these portrayals not only distract us from the real-world challenges facing women today but also drive a wedge between baby-boom women and their "millennial" daughters.

In seeking to bridge this generation gap, Douglas makes the case for casting aside these retrograde messages, showing us how to decode the mixed messages that restrict the ambitions of women of all ages. And what makesThe Rise Of Enlightened Sexism such a pleasure to read is Douglas's unique voice, as she blends humor with insight and offers an empathetic and sisterly guide to the images so many American women love and hate with equal measure.

The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

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Social Studies

Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience

Drawing on her landmark study involving more than one hundred mothers, a renowned ob-gyn shares the secrets to a good birth.

Most doctors think of a "good" birth only in terms of medical success. But Dr. Anne Lyerly knows firsthand that many important elements are often overlooked. Her three-year study of a diverse group of moms explored what matters most to women during childbirth. The results, presented to the public for the first time in A Good Birth, show what really matters goes beyond the clinical outcome or even the usual questions of hospital versus birthing center, and reveal universal needs of women, like the importance of feeling connected, safe, and respected.
 
The book's wisdom is drawn from in-depth interviews with women with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, and whose birth stories range from quick and simple to complicated and frightening. Describing what went well, what didn't, and what they'd do differently next time, these mothers give voice to the complete experience of childbirth, helping both women and their healthcare providers develop strategies to address the emotional needs of the mother, going beyond the standard birth plans and conversations. Transcending the "medical" versus "natural" childbirth debate, A Good Birth turns our attention to the crucial question of what makes the best birth possible.

Ashya Smith

@ashyawrites

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