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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE)

Dwight L. Evans - ‎Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder.. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive...
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Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Barry M. Prizant Ph.D. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Autism Society of America's Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world's leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human - this is "required reading...Breathtakingly...
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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

Kate Manne - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it - from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled"An elegant, fierce, and profound...
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On Freedom

Timothy Snyder - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny. "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined....
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Autism from Diagnosis to Adulthood: The Spectrum Journey

Dawn Ham-Kucharski - Independently published
Format: Paperback

Autism from Diagnosis to Adulthood: The Spectrum Journey is a life learned set of lessons, references, and resources curated to provide an easy-to-use reference for those who are anywhere on the journey with their loved one with autism. You could be a parent of a newly diagnosed child,...
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Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Catherine Pakaluk - Regnery Gateway
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women.. In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah's Children is a compelling portrait of these...
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What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

Anastasia Berg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek...
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

Anupreeta Das - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates - one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades - and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long,...
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