Answers to Distraction
10 best books like Answers to Distraction (Edward M. Hallowell): Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, Your Erroneous Zones, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, The Male Brain, Legacy
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Author | Robert A. Caro |
ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life
Author | Sari Solden, MS |
ISBN | 1887424970 |
This book has changed my life. If you are a woman, or know a woman who has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, read this book!
I think it is especially important for women like me. I had a lifetime of dealing with issues, beating myself up, & feeling frustrated. This is not uncommon, because most women...
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Author | Gretchen Rubin |
ISBN | 0449014398 |
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.
One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing...
Author | Wayne W. Dyer |
ISBN | 0061091480 |
THE RECORD-BREAKING, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OVER 35 MILLION COPIES SOLD
The first book by Wayne Dyer, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings and national bestsellers There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem and Wisdom of the Ages, a positive...
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users....
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
Author | David Kadavy |
ISBN | 1119998956 |
Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them. The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work--and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Author | David Epstein |
ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Author | David Epstein |
ISBN | 1591845114 |
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback.
In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance...
Author | Louann Brizendine |
ISBN | 0767927532 |
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.
Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior,...
Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up
My name is Max, and I'm a totally bored middle schooler. My life is so lame that every day has started to feel like the same exact day... that is, except for today. The school science club dug up a hundred-year-old time capsule filled with all the usual stuff...
"Book One of The Warrior Series
Sun Tzu and Sun Pin's timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Art of Warfare by Sun Pin, in plain English.
War...
Author | Len Welsh |
ISBN | 0804804966 |
Japanese characters, called kanji, often intimidate potential students of the language with their complex and mysterious appearance. Read Japanese Today is a comprehensible and storylike approach to an often difficult language. Intended for people on the go, this book will teach you to recognize...
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
ISBN | 0062005812 |
“Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the Dalai Lama.” —New York Times
“Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man…. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.” —Martin Luther King,...
Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
ISBN | 0733613799 |
Drawn from His Holiness the Dalai Lama's best-selling The Art of Happiness, this guidebook contains simple advice on how to achieve lasting happiness in our everyday lives. Going straight to the heart of the matter, each page offers a gem of spiritual wisdom to enable us to defeat depression, anxiety,...
Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
Author | Michael Matthews |
ISBN | 1938895274 |
If you want to be muscular, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without steroids, good genetics, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements...then you want to read this book.
Here's the deal:
Getting into awesome shape isn't nearly as complicated...
Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget
Author | Nelson Dellis |
ISBN | 1419732560 |
Throughout his research into memory theory, Nelson Dellis found existing memory improvement guides to be wanting—overcomplicated, dry, and stodgy. So he decided to write a book that is approachable and fun, centered on what people actually need to remember. In Remember It!, Dellis teaches us...
Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism
Author | Carl F.H. Henry |
ISBN | 0891074910 |
"If evangelicals believe that the enduring corrective of modernity's badly-skewed ethical and epistemic compass is the self-disclosed God and His moral agenda, they had better say so and live so in this crucial turning time in America. Otherwise they may soon find themselves aliens in a once promised...
Mastering Vim Quickly: From WTF to OMG in no time
Author | Jovica Ilic |
ISBN | 1983325740 |
Читерская книжка, чтобы набить стату по прочитанным за год (100 страниц всего). Видел рекламу от автора на reddit, стало интересно, чего там такое. Автор пафосно...
What Happened in the Garden?: The Reality and Ramifications of the Creation and Fall of Man
Author | Abner Chou |
ISBN | 0825442095 |
Evangelicals are no strangers to the creation versus evolution debate. Now the argument has spread beyond the contents of the creation account and into Genesis 2-3, with speculation about the historicity of Adam, and the fall. But does it matter which position one holds? Is anything really at stake?...
Get Strong: The Ultimate 16-Week Transformation Program For Gaining Muscle and Strength--Using The Power Of Progressive Calisthenics
How to Build a Better Body Fast
Where do you belong on the strength continuum? And where do you want to be? Too often, we know what we should be doing to gain strength, but we lack direction, a plan, motivation and intelligent guidance to make appreciable gains over the long haul. We have no real goal,...
Strength Rules: How to Get Stronger Than Almost Anyone--And The Proven Plan to Make It Real
How to Be Tough As Nails--Whatever You Do, Wherever You Go, Whenever You Need It. Want to get classically strong--in every dimension of your life--gut, heart and mind…?
In other words, do you want to be: More than just gym-strong? More than just functionally strong? More than just sport-specifically...
Zen Mind, Strong Body: How To Cultivate Advanced Calisthenic Strength--Using The Power Of "Beginner's Mind"
In Zen Mind, Strong Body, acclaimed bodyweight exercise expert Al Kavadlo presents his “philosophy of fitness”—a philosophy that has allowed him to endure injury-free, while achieving some of the world’s most challenging movements, be it the One-arm Pull-up, the Human Flag, the Stand-to-stand...
Street Workout: A Worldwide Anthology of Urban Calisthenics--How to Sculpt a God-Like Physique Using Nothing But Your Environment
"Al and Danny Kavadlo--bodyweight coaches extraordinaire--have done it again. Their new book Street Workout is an incredibly comprehensive collection of calisthenics concepts, exercises and programs. In addition to their masterful demonstrations of every exercise, the Kavadlo brothers'...
I Saw the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Vision
In the Presence of a Great Mystery
In this talk, a brilliant summation of his teachings, Eckhart Tolle begins by describing a problem all humans face: a strict sense of self based in personal history, mental interpretations, and memories of the past; a sense that’s forever being reinforced through habitual thought patterns. When...
Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Find the Hidden Path to Happiness
Author | Robert Twigger |
ISBN | 0241280044 |
'Micromastery is a triumph. A brilliant idea, utterly convincing, and superbly carried through' - Philip Pullman
We read that we must be passionate about only one thing, that 10,000 hours of hard practice is needed to achieve mastery. But in fact most successful people, including Nobel prize...
The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers: Learning to Interpret Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles
Author | Abner Chou |
ISBN | 0825443245 |
Learn to interpret the Bible from the biblical writers themselves
A method of interpretation--a hermeneutic--is indispensable for understanding Scripture, constructing theology, and living the Christian life, but most contemporary hermeneutical systems fail to acknowledge the...
The name's Valentine, Brody Valentine, and I'm back with my fourth case. The sixth graders of Buchanan School are on a trip to the mall to watch our award winning show choir perform in the food court. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig, right? Not when there's danger lurking in the background. Someone's decided...
Chase Cooper back with my seventh diary as a 6th grade ninja. Buchanan School is holding an election for a new president and my cousin, Zoe, is in the running. In the midst of helping her prep, a group of students calling themselves The Scavengers invited me to join their club. Of course I didn't join, but...
Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up
The name's Chase Cooper, and this is my eighth diary as a 6th grade ninja. After having the worst week of my life, you'd think I'd try to relax and maybe stay out of the limelight, right? Nope! Zoe has me in front of the entire school playing in the Spirit Week...