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No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

Janet Lansbury · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their...
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Emerson: Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America)

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Library of America
Pages: 1150
Format: Hardcover

The major works of Emerson's most productive period in their entirety: "Nature: Addresses and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life."
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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

Sam Wang · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

You: The Owner’s Manual for the brain: an expert, comprehensive, and lively guide that makes sense of all the latest scientific findings about how your brain really works. We are using our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they...
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Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

Dennis Greenberger PhD · Guilford Publications
Pages: 341
Format: Paperback

Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,000,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to...
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Status Anxiety

Alain De Botton · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

"Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted. . . . The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second...
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Feminine Beauty

Kenneth Clark · Rizzoli International Publications; 1ST edition
Format: Illustrated]

Published December 22nd 1981 by Random House Value Publishing. Limiting himself to the Western world, Lord Clark presents his selection of sculptures and paintings of feminine beauty through the ages.
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Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional

Dr. Dale Archer · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerA groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior - long perceived as liabilities - can be important hidden strengths.What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future...
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family

Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,...
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Peter Singer · Rodale Books; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose...
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Psych Experiments: From Pavlov's dogs to Rorschach's inkblots, put psychology's most fascinating studies to the test

Michael A Britt · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life! Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home! Famous psychological experiments--from Freud's ego to the Skinner box--have changed the way science views human behavior. But how do these...
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Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello

Andrew Burstein · Basic Books; export ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly little...
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff

Alison Stewart · Chicago Review
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

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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