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THE REALITY-BASED RULES OF THE WORKPLACE
Wakeman delivers a tough reality-check: you are the source of your own misery, and only you have the power to end it. Grounded in the principles of psychology and her experiences as a mental health counselor, Wakeman argues that a person’s unhappiness at work has nothing to do with their circumstances. Rather, it’s a direct result of the drama they create in reaction to those circumstances.
THE SECRETS OF MY SUCCESS: And the story of BOOST Juice, juicy bits and all
THE SECRETS OF MY SUCCESS: And the story of BOOST Juice, juicy bits and all
THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF INFLUENCE: The 10 Tools of Persuasion to Connect, Communicate and WIN IN BUSINESS
THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF INFLUENCE: The 10 Tools of Persuasion to Connect, Communicate and WIN IN BUSINESS
microDOMINATION: how to leverage social media and content marketing to build a mini-business empire around your personal brand
microDOMINATION: how to leverage social media and content marketing to build a mini-business empire around your personal brand
Cochrane Review Finds No Benefit of Evening Primrose Oil for Treating Eczema
Research into the complementary therapies evening primrose oil and borage oil shows little, if any, benefit for people with eczema compared with placebo, according to a new systematic review. The authors, who published their review in The Cochrane Library, conclude that further studies on the therapies would be difficult to justify.
Smoking Prevention in Schools: Does it Work?
Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these programmes appear to be effective at least one year after implementation.
Targeting Prescribers Can Reduce Excessive Use of Antibiotics in Hospitals
Giving prescribers access to education and advice or imposing restrictions on use can curb overuse or inappropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. This is important because unnecessary use of these life-saving drugs is a key source of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Financial Independence (Getting to Point X)
Financial independence is the point at which you stop working for your money and your money starts working for you. John Vento provides ten steps to help get you there.
How to Restore Faith in A Fundamentally Broken Global Financial System
Authors Theodore Roosevelt Malloch and Jordan Mamorsky make an impassioned call for an end to corrupt and irresponsible practices and the restoration of a more virtuous, ethics-based version of capitalism. More importantly, they offer cogent, well-reasoned prescriptions for how to achieve that end and restore trust.
APEC to Honor Outstanding Ocean Researcher
APEC member economies have announced that they will honor a young scientist in 2013 whose collaborative work in the region has made an outstanding contribution to sustainable ocean development.
How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market
The Art of Value Investing, by John Heins and Whitney Tilson, brings together the collective wisdom of today's most successful value investors and distilled it into a series of actionable lessons readers can put into practice right away.
Are Living Liver Donors at Risk from Life-threatening “Near-miss” Events?
A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Research of transplant centers around the world found that those with more experience conducting live donor procedures had lower rates of aborted surgery and life-threatening “near-miss” events.
Viewing Sexually Explicit Material Is Less Associated with Young People’s Sexual Behavior Than Previously Thought
Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small extent. That is the conclusion of a new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. The findings suggest that the practice is just one of many factors that may influence the sexual behaviors of young people.
Precision Agriculture Improves Farming Efficiency, Has Important Implications on Food Security
Precision agriculture promises to make farming more efficient and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security, according to a new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. In an article about the study in the magazine’s May issue, University of Reading Professor Margaret A. Oliver, BSc, PhD, assesses how there is potential to manage land more effectively to improve the farming economy and crop quality, and to ensure food security.
Roadmap for the Rest of Your Life: Smart Choices About Money, Health, Work, Lifestyle ... and Pursuing Your Dreams
Bart Astor offers a comprehensive guide for creating and realizing your goals, making lifestyle decisions, growing your nest egg, and taking advantage of the new opportunities at age 50+.
The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture
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Threaded through a Pore: Single-molecule detection of hydroxymethylcytosine in DNA
Changes in the bases that make up DNA act as markers, telling a cell which genes it should read and which it shouldn’t. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a British team has now introduced a new method that makes it possible to enrich the rare gene segments that contain the modified base hydroxymethylcytosine and to identify individual hydroxymethylcytosine molecules in DNA. Such modifications are associated with autoimmune diseases and cancer.
Author Offers Visual Experience in Book Yourself Solid Illustrated
Most people are visual learners, not readers. Therefore, Michael Port author of a handful of bestselling books has teamed up with visual strategist, Jocelyn Wallace to offer a visual interpretation of his 2008 title, Book Yourself Solid.
BCG Releases a Compendium of Winning Moves and Strategies for Leaders to Own the Future
Book brings together 50 articles on how companies can take advantage of new opportunities in an age of accelerating change.


