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Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World
Jill Rigby · Howard Books; Revised edition |
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This inspirational parenting guide offers proactive and positive steps to raising respectful, engaged, and grateful children.In an effort to raise children with a healthy view of themselves, parents often focus on self-esteem rather than self-respect. And author Jill Rigby says there’s... |
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Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
John Burt · Belknap Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance... |
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer MD · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Expert advice from the medical director of the countrys largest state mental health system and the mental health editor of The Huffington Post. More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level.... |
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Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity
Alan Iny · Random House |
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When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters. LIGHTERS? With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a... |
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Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
Gary Klein · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover |
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Insights—like Darwin’s understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick’s breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA—can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more... |
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success  Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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The Athena Doctrine: How Women
John Gerzema · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times Bestseller How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future Among 64,000 people surveyed in thirteen nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all,... |
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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
Harold Schechter · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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2015 Edgar Award Nominee Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: "SKYSCRAPER SLAYER," "BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB" read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly... |
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