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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego - a boy who had stopped growing... |
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Alison Stewart · Chicago Review Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late... |
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician
Michael Ellis · Oxford University Press Pages: 240 Format: Paperback
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When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 280 Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation
Perry N. Halkitis Format: Hardcover
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The civil rights of LGBTQ people have slowly yet steadily strengthened since the Stonewall Riots of June, 1969. Despite enormous opposition from some political segments and the catastrophic effects of the AIDS crisis, the last five decades have witnessed improvement in the conditions of the lives... |
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
DANIEL J SIEGEL · Bantam Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for positive thinking.When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often... |
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Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Jennifer O'toole · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome,... |
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Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
Andreas Wagner · Basic Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and scienceIn Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb... |
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Bray Pipher · Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.Women growing older contend with ageism,... |
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