Product Description: [Read by Karen Saltus]Filled with reallife stories and examples, Own the Room will demystify the notion of presence and provide practical advice on how you can develop it. People are drawn to, and influenced by, leaders who communicate authentically, connect with people, and have immediate impact...read more

Product Description: Lick your sugar habit for good!Sugar is the new controlled substance. The average American consumes up to thirty-one pounds of sugar per year, and a diet high in sugar can cause diabetes, obesity, and many other health problems. Our excess intake of sugar, from the white stuff on the table to the high-fructose corn syrup hidden in packaged foods, is not only making us sick, it's making us fat and aging our skin...read more

Product Description: Surely a happy marriage for a normally adjusted couple is a simple matter of give-and-take -- some patience, tolerance, and just trying to be cheerful as often as possible. There is no shortage of books providing relationship advice that can help us with these matters...read more

Product Description: Burnham tells the stories of individuals who have 'seen without seeing, illustrating the wondrous workings of what she calls our intuitive hearts. Exploring a wide range of subjects-from loved ones' abilities to communicate telepathically to the mystery of the artist's inspired creativity; from animal communication to psychic powers; from scientific studies of premonition to the skeptics who deny the very existence of such phenomena; this is a stunning contribution from a leading spiritual thinker on a topic vital to us all...read more

Product Description: Nothing but the Truth is an exciting new guide to communication skills and finding needed truths. To get the truth from someone, you need two sets of skills. First is the interpersonal skills necessary to get the facts. But the second group of skills is equally if not more important: it enables you to assess whether the facts actually fit together-whether they are true-and identify the emotions that shaped them...read more

Product Description: [Read by Karen Saltus]To get the truth from someone, you need two sets of skills. First is the interpersonal skills necessary to get the facts. The second group of skills is equally if not more important: it enables you to assess whether the facts actually fit together -- whether they are true -- and identify the emotions that shaped them...read more

No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes's unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers.