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Based on his years as a successful basketball performance coach, Alan Stein brings you the keys to lasting, unimaginable success. The secret? Return to the basics. They're simple, but they're not easy. But the truth is that more connected, productive, and influential leaders and teammates find long-lasting success not with big flashy changes, but with the accumulated of the little things.

You can handle anything that comes your way. Sleep expert Sara C. Mednick introduces the "downstate," a key to rejuvenation on a cellular level and how to maximize it for energy, balance, and vitality.

Van explores the real reasons behind our unending physical and mental health battles--culture, family, and the baggage of life--and demonstrates how we can better understand our bodies by better understanding ourselves.

""Of the numerous books that have been written about loss, Matthews has given us an original, startling and deeply thought-provoking work... What we are left with is a sense of peace -- the kind that comes with the knowledge that, even in the darkest places, we are not alone." -- Eve Joseph, author of In the Slender Margin Minerva's Owl is a memoir that celebrates marriage and explores bereavement a stage of married love.

No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the "brain attic"—Holmes's metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights.

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances--a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health.

Mental conditioning coach Trevor Moawad provides life-changing, step-by-step guidance on how to successfully navigate adversity and defeat negativity by downshifting to neutral thinking.

Whether you're married, single, divorced, or just overwhelmed with it all, Gary John Bishop's tough-love approach will dispel myths around what makes relationships work.

The Director of West Point's Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to building and mastering confidence.