risk-taking (psychology)

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Wildflower

2011
Chelsea Spain, tired of her father's harsh rules, decides to take some risks with her life, but when her immature friends start egging her on more and more, she is not sure every temptation is worth it.

Something borrowed

2011
Rachel White, a young Manhattan attorney, finds her ordered life in an uproar when she gets drunk on her thirtieth birthday and winds up in bed with her best friend's fiance, Dex.

Something borrowed

2004
Rachel White, a young Manhattan attorney, finds her ordered life in an uproar when she gets drunk on her thirtieth birthday and winds up in bed with her best friend's fiance, Dex.

Think big and kick ass in business and life

2007
Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 of his own money. After meeting Donald Trump, Zanker learned to Think BIG himself and grew The Learning Annex from a $5 million-a-year company into one that's over $100 million a year in sales, and still growing. Here, you too can learn Trump's secrets to thinking BIG! Learn: momentum: how to get it and how to get it back; revenge: how and when to get it; why contracts in business and personal life are so important. Plus real-life stories from people who've applied the think BIG formula in their own lives.--From publisher description.

Scary jobs

2009
Contains descriptions of ten scary jobs, including astronaut, bomb squad technician, smokejumper, stormchaser, and spy, features profiles of working professionals in each field, and includes sidebars, photographs, facts, and activities.

Real kids taking the right risks

plus, how you can, too!
1999
Discusses the value of taking risks and different kinds of risk-taking, both good and bad, and offers advice on and examples of this type of behavior and how to learn from both successes and mistakes.

Dangerous games

ice climbing, storm kayaking, and other adventures from the extreme edge of sports
2000
A collection of true stories about men and women who participate in extreme sports.

The survivor

24 spine-chilling adventures on the edge of death
2001
American explorer and adventure-seeker John Goddard describes twenty-four of his most treacherous experiences from boyhood to adulthood in such far-flung lands as Egypt, Kenya, the Galapagos Islands, and the U.S.

Putting makeup on dead people

2012
Donna's discovery that she wants to be a mortician helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.

Infiltration

2011
Bex breaks into locked and abandoned buildings just because he can, but when a new friend's behavior becomes more and more risky, he has to do the right thing.

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