Smart Health

Choices we can expect to encounter, from life-changing career moves to the best route to the coast can expend a lot of time and mental energy if we haven't learned the basic skills required for getting things done effectively and decisively. This book is a basic practical guide to the all-important mental process by which we all live our lives: analyzing a situation, sorting out how to respond to it, and taking action accordingly.

Tiredness. Pain. Stress. They affect your productivity. They rob you of precious time with your loved ones or your hobbies. They decrease the quality of your life. Could you imagine what it’s like to be free of these complaints more often than not? You’ll walk into the office with a spring in your step and deliver top-notch work. Then, you’ll get together with friends or do personal projects for hours. The good news is, you don’t have to resign yourself to merely imagining these outcomes.

Distinguished authors like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb have written much about the flaws in the human brain when it comes time to make a decision. Our intuitions and passions frequently fail us, leading to outcomes we don't want. In this audiobook, Eyal Winter, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wonders: why? If our emotions are so destructive and unreliable, why has evolution left us with them?

Nolan's senior year is shaping up to be just another struggle with anxiety, authority, and awkwardness. Then he meets Mr. Barno—a mysterious ex-convict feared by everyone, including the popular girl he dreams of asking to Homecoming, his overbearing parents, and even his eccentric best friends. Nolan is afraid, too—until he uncovers something extraordinary about his unlikely mentor that changes everything he thought he knew about himself and his small-town high school.

The Keto Shift is the first hormone-smart keto blueprint designed exclusively for women 50 +. Physician-researcher Dr Isabelle Thorne shows you how to melt stubborn belly fat, stabilise mood, and restore metabolism—without crash diets or endless cardio.

If you have coronary heart disease, this audiobook could save your life. Coronary heart disease (CHD) takes the lives of 2,000 Americans every day. But you don’t have to be one of them. If you’ve been diagnosed with CHD or suffered a heart attack, you can still live a long, heart-healthy life. Be Heart Smart shows you how. In this definitive guide to CHD, cardiologist Waqar Khan, MD, MPH, answers your questions and gives you easy-to-follow advice for preventing heart attacks and keeping your heart in tip-top shape.

Feeling overwhelmed by money? Struggling to save for what you really want? You're not alone. Most schools don't teach financial literacy, leaving many teens unsure how to handle money. This book changes that with a teen-friendly guide to financial independence.

This 5-point, week-by-week plan to help you change your lifestyle in a way that unlocks your body's natural ability to lose weight. The strategies will change your perspective about the roles of food, exercise, and rest in your life.

This book is about effective training. The author explains how the body works and how to design a workout that supports personal goals. It also provides information on metabolism, weight loss, muscle building and orthopaedic problems. The book offers a well-founded and understandable explanation of how the body works and how to design an effective workout. The author emphasizes that effectiveness is not to be equated with fast, hard or long training, but rather with a conscious training that supports one's own goals.

Want to give your child a head start with money, confidence, and real-world life skills? This audiobook makes financial literacy simple, practical, and fun—no lectures, no jargon. Just engaging stories, clear lessons, and hands-on activities designed for kids and families to enjoy together. Narrated in a friendly, easy-to-follow voice that’s perfect for kids, it’s ideal for car rides, bedtime, or shared learning with parents.

Investment changes people's lives. It helps individuals achieve financial independence and not get stuck in a routine that the modern world makes them part of. Often stock market and cryptocurrency books focus on providing information to financial enthusiasts with complex terminology that is often difficult to understand by beginners.

First, do no harm - doctors, nurses, and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country, errors are made every single day - avoidable, simple mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two medical mistakes that not only ended in unnecessary deaths but hit close to home, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.

If you want money, you need to understand it first—and it’s way more fun than you might think! Your school teaches you lots of things… but for some reason, it doesn’t teach you one of the most important skills you’ll ever need—how to manage your money. Sure, you’ve encountered thousands of word problems about money in math, but do any of them tell you what to do with your own money? If you’ve ever been frustrated that you don’t have the cash to do the things you’d like to do or buy the things you want to have, then you have clear proof that you’re missing some essential skills.

In 2016, Americans spent over $329 billion on prescription medications. This trend has no sign of changing. We live in a country of symptom-chasing gluttony. More people blindly accept their MDs' recommendations and seldom ask about the harmful side effects their newly prescribed pills create. In the age of insurance industry greed combined with Big Pharma collusion, patients are at risk. The simple truth is nutrition normalizes function.

Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone, make meaningful connections, and become the confident, connected teen you’re meant to be—even if you’re self-conscious? This 30-day guide is crafted just for you, filled with practical advice, interactive exercises, and real-life stories from other teens who have overcome the same challenges you face.

Our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Margaret Morris argues we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways - uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity.

The secret is out: Women watch porn. Glamour magazine found that 87 percent of women ages 25 to 39 enjoy porn as part of their self-defined healthy sexual lifestyles - even more than use sex toys. In The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn, acclaimed sex educator, sex and technology columnist, and porn-for-women expert Violet Blue offers hip, friendly, and knowledgeable advice on bringing porn into your sex life. Or, decide if it's even right for you. Learn about the realities of porn and the women who watch it, women that direct it, and women who star in it.

Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices explores the hidden influences and mental shortcuts our minds use to process information and how that often leads to unhealthy food choices. Understanding these hidden influences can help us make better decisions. More importantly, we can learn to fear less, and enjoy more, the food we eat.

This audiobook will take you through every aspect of Craigslist and make a pro out of you before you begin your selling endeavors. After all, it’s worth knowing detail before you begin anything to make sure you don’t fall foul of pitfalls and errors.

Run Smart: Debunking Marathon Myths uses the latest scientific research to show how preparing for and running marathons can be made easier, and in doing so challenges many of the myths that surround marathon running. The book draws on the author's experience as one of the UK's leading sports scientists, his extensive research background in marathon running and his experience as a marathon runner to provide credible advice to runners to support their preparation for a marathon.