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Shrand, Joseph.
Manage your stress : overcoming stress in the modern world / Joseph
Shrand, Leigh Devine.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-60579-7 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-4299-5031-2 (e-book)
1. Stress management. 2. Stress (Psychology) 3. Mind and body.
I. Devine, Leigh. II. Title.
RA785.S544 2012
616.9'8—dc23
2012004628
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