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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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Millions of Americans participate in some type of book club, whether virtual or in-person. Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes. They can focus on fiction or nonfiction, have themes to guide book choices, and be organized through places like work, school, professional organizations, religious groups and libraries.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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It’s a scientific skill she’s honed throughout decades of research and practice, one that has earned her the title of “human lie detector.” Growing up, she began to develop the skill of how to read facial expressions more out of desperation than curiosity. “My She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” Henderson, a self-taught thought leader with three honorary doctorates and nine books to her credit, “served on the U.S.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Yet, despite all these technologies, the unique skills that come naturally to us as humans— emotional intelligence , empathy and social awareness to name a few—still reign supreme. In 2004, she published her seminal book, Designing Sociable Robots , which presented her vision for social robots of the future.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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So, the duo founded nonPareil Institute, a post-secondary training institute, in 2008. These students can choose between courses that teach both core soft skills, such as “ communications ” or “community and culture,” and hard technical skills. They yearned for more and they knew they had the skill set to accomplish more.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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In this book, she presents evidence that while large philanthropic donations and headline-making policy changes may get most of our media attention, they are not the only tools to achieve peace. Menopause is not a disease, states ob/gyn Dr. Jen Gunter, author of the best-selling book The Vagina Bible. Read an excerpt here. ) .

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Which room layout is right for my event?

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Today I am off to The Office Show 2012 at London Olympia. The suppliers at the exhibition are tailored for assistants, the seminars are run by some of the most prestigious training companies and as always there are a lot of free goodies! Happy National PA day everyone and hopefully I will see a few of you at The Office Show 2012!

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