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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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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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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World
MIKE BROOKS · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology can cause harm: by eroding our attention... |
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The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
W Thomas Boyce · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary... |
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Preschool Clues: Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World
Angela C. Santomero · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The award-winning creator of Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows' powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational "clues" to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially,... |
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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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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen... |
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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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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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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 Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir
MARK LUKACH · Harper Wave
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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International BestsellerA heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their... |
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