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Coping with Anxiety: Ten Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
Edmund Bourne · New Harbinger Pub, 2016.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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Relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good! Fully revised and based in the latest research, this second edition of Coping with Anxiety includes the latest DSM updates and provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies to stop anxiety at its source.If you suffer from anxiety,... |
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The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Eric Berkowitz · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research... |
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Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up To Anorexia
Hope Virgo · Trigger Press
Pages: 145
Format: Paperback
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'Whilst your anorexia seems like your best friend, she knows everything about you and is always there, she is also your worst enemy and not someone you want to know.' - Hope VirgoWe follow Hope's devastating struggle with anorexia. For four years, she managed to keep it hidden,... |
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Adam Alter · Penguin Press
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling... |
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers · Hachette Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam... |
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Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide
Frederic Lenoir · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from... |
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A.D.H.D. Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
Alan Schwarz · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The groundbreaking and definitive account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - and how its unchecked growth over half a century has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society.More... |
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The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook
Howard Ball · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
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In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. In the 21st century, as a result of better health care and working conditions as well as advances in medical technology, we live much... |
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Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans
Pamela D Arceneaux · The Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1897 and 1917, a legal red-light district thrived at the edge of the French Quarter, helping establish the notorious reputation that adheres to New Orleans today. Though many scholars have written about Storyville, no thorough contemporary study of the blue books directories of the neighborhood's... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Naomi Judd · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world... |
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Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook
David E Newton · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover
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Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook is a single-volume book that introduces a variety of personal, social, political, and ethical issues of concern to every young adult in the United States today. Written in a style that is accessible and engaging for student readers and researchers, this... |
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On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children
Tracy L Cross · Prufrock Press
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
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Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, the nation's leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both parents and teachers. In a thoughtful,... |
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondo · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has revolutionized homes - and lives - across the world. Now, Kondo presents an illustrated guide to her acclaimed KonMari Method, with step-by-step folding illustrations for everything from shirts to socks,... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly personalaccount... |
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