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
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0525656340
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
AuthorSari Solden, MS
ISBN1887424970
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
AuthorGretchen Rubin
ISBN0449014398
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...
Your Erroneous Zones
AuthorWayne W. Dyer
ISBN0061091480
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
AuthorAndy Hunt
-- 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
AuthorDavid Kadavy
ISBN1119998956
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
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN0735214484
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
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN1591845114
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...
The Male Brain
AuthorLouann Brizendine
ISBN0767927532
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,...
Legacy
AuthorMarcus Emerson
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...
AuthorSun Tzu
"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...
AuthorLen Welsh
ISBN0804804966
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
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0062005812
“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,...
Essence of Happiness
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0733613799
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
AuthorMichael Matthews
ISBN1938895274
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
AuthorNelson Dellis
ISBN1419732560
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
AuthorCarl F.H. Henry
ISBN0891074910
"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
AuthorJovica Ilic
ISBN1983325740
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
AuthorAbner Chou
ISBN0825442095
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
AuthorAl Kavadlo
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
AuthorDanny Kavadlo
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"
AuthorAl Kavadlo
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
AuthorAl Kavadlo
"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
AuthorAbner Chou
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In the Presence of a Great Mystery
AuthorEckhart Tolle
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
AuthorRobert Twigger
ISBN0241280044
'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
AuthorAbner Chou
ISBN0825443245
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...
Selfies Are Forever
AuthorMarcus Emerson
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...
Scavengers
AuthorMarcus Emerson
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...
Spirit Week Shenanigans
AuthorMarcus Emerson
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...
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