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Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life

Pam Withers · Viva Editions
Format: Paperback

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys who are most aware that their bright eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade after which they become disengaged discouraged and disaffected There are dozens...
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Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More!

Paul Kleinman · Adams Media
Format: Print book

A hands-on approach to exploring the human mindToo often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson...
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Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict Into Cooperation

Becky A Bailey · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Parents who love their children but don't always love their children's behavior-or their own responses to that behavior--will find powerful help in this book, which offers new discipline tools for new times. Dr. Becky Baileys unusual approach to parenting has made thousands of families...
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Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud

Andrew Burstein · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1ST edition
Format: Print book

Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual’s inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative new book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back...
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School Success for Kids with Autism

Christine Barthold Ph.D. · Prufrock Press
Format: Print book

With the increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism each year, parents need the valuable information provided in School Success for Kids With Autism to help ensure their children receive the educational programming they need and deserve. By outlining the best practices found in today's...
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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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Depression and Anxiety in Later Life: What Everyone Needs to Know

Mark D. Miller · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Offers advice on minimizing or avoiding depression and anxiety in later life, including how to live with illness and disability, how to cope with the loss of a loved one, and how to maintain a healthy body weight and nutrition.
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters

Emily Esfahani Smith · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.

Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover...
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Craving: Why We Can't Seem to Get Enough

Omar Manejwala · Hazelden; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A nationally recognized expert on compulsive behaviors explains the phenomenon of craving and gives us tools to achieve freedom from our seemingly insatiable desires by changing our actions to remap our brains.When we find ourselves wanting something strong enough, we'll do just about...
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Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh...
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Susan Neiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past

In the wake of white nationalist...

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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M Hallowell · Touchstone
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback

Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children) , Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis...
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Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success

Kerry Patterson · Business Plus; Reprint edition
Format: Book

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life,...
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Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night's Sleep

Colleen E. Carney PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general...
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Child And Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple

John H. O'Neal · New Harbinger Pubns Inc; 1st edition
Pages: 137
Format: Paperback

This short and easy-to-understand book offers all the information you need about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders. The book is organized by disorders most commonly encountered in young people, like ADD, depression...
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