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As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. In this intimate yet practical book, Pickens helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.

While it never discounts the difficulties of living with autism, this book offers inspiring stories and practical advice drawn from Dr. Prizant's four-decade career. It offers a compassionate perspective that family members and professionals will find uplifting and hopeful.

Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a "spending fast" will help you get on the road to living debt-free. In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt. An inveterate “spender,” she was in way over her head, to the tune of almost $24,000. She knew her debt was only going to get worse if she didn’t take action, but she didn’t know where to look for help. On a whim, Anna decided to go on a spending fast—an idea she heard in passing but knew little about.

You know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation will finally take meditation mainstream. Filled with fascinating real-life transformations, interactive exercises, and practical knowledge, Emily Fletcher introduces you to a relevatory daily practice and shows you how to make it work for your modern life.

Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness.

Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Postmates, Doordash, Caviar--the list goes on for sidehustle gigs you can add in to your income stream, but they all require you to share some of your profit as a subcontractor. Short on cash, but want to learn how to do the same thing and take control of your life, income, and destiny? No matter how humble the beginnings, you can achieve what you desire most. Learn how to start a business from very little, create a system to free up your time, and develop a mindset to take you to the top.

Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in this essential guidebook to oral sex. Kerner provides a virtual encyclopedia of female pleasure, detailing dozens of tried-and-true techniques for consistently satisfying a woman.

Twenty years ago, Stephanie Jose became well acquainted with grief when she suddenly lost her friend. She has experienced firsthand many of the same feelings as her patients. This book provides practical methods for coping with immediate feelings of loss, as well as the difficult emotions that can persist over time.

Dr. Streicher's much anticipated book sets women on a path to discovering (or rediscovering) deeply pleasurable, satisfying sex. She offers practical advice for women of all ages, explaining what a woman needs to know about her body, her life, and her relationships, and how it connects to a satisfying sex life.