Books to Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Publication date: 2013
This book explains how stress changes your brain and what you can do about it. It is the user's manual for your brain that shows you how to free yourself when stress takes over.

Publication date: 2010
In this cookbook, you'll find 300 great-tasting, good-for-you recipes designed to help you eat well in and out of the dorm.

Publication date: 2013
Provides a historic and contemporary overview of the philosophy of happiness, with critical evaluations to help students analyze the material and trace the evolution of a deeply nuanced concept

Publication date: 2012
Guides readers through the basics of saving, investing, and financial planning in language that is clear, accessible, and lively. The author shows how to apply this knowledge, and to avoid the most common pitfalls, to insure the best possible outcome for long-term financial security.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: RM237.73 .T38 2007
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes argues persuasively that the causes of obesity and diabeties lie in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugars–via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulation–and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: BJ1481 .M38 2012
Explores happiness as an important dimension of fully desirable lives. The book integrates philosophical issues with topics of broad human interest, and it includes chapters on how happiness connects with the virtues, love, philanthropy, suffering, simplicity, balancing work and leisure, and politics.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: HB74.P8 T53 2008
By knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: DU622 .S67 2007
An informative, humorous, and fun guide to planning the perfect Hawaiian vacation. It describes all of the islands' top things to see and do and provides a clever but simple self-test that allows readers to determine which of these activities will make up their ideal vacation.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: HG181 .F713 2012
Learn how to be financially independent by: creating a workable budget; minimizing credit card and student loan debt; investing money wisely; building an emergency fund.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: HF5386 .P757 2007
Presents a series of interviews with successful people who demonstrate the author's three elements of success: involvement with something they are passionate about, the cultivation of a sense of responsibility and accountability, and taking effective action.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: BF323.D5 L49 2014
The author uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how some people excel at managing information flow—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.

Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: BF637.P76 S74 2011
Using a mix of psychology, evolutionary biology, self-help, and more than a decade of research, Dr. Piers Steel, the world’s foremost authority on procrastination, offers a tried and true method helping us to identify, understand, and break free of our self-destructive bad habits and create more positive lives for ourselves.