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The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance

Polly Young-Eisendrath · Little, Brown
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Kids today are depressed and anxious. They also seem to feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eisendrath makes clear in this brilliant account of where a generation has gone astray, parents trying to make their children feel special...
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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

Debra Gwartney · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family....
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Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy

Emily Bazelon · Random House
Format: Hardcover

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators...
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Fire Child, Water Child: How Understanding the Five Types of ADHD Can Help You Improve Your Child's Self-Esteem and Attention

Stephen Cowan MD FAAP · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Fire Child, Water Child is a revolutionary guide to parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that does not rely on medication or pathologizing your child’s challenges. This method, created by pediatrician and ADHD specialist Stephen Scott Cowan, helps...
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

ARUN GANDHI · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,...
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The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook: How to Manage Cravings, Reduce Stress, and Stop Hating Your Body

Carolyn Coker Ross · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Isn't it time you got off the diet treadmill? In The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook, physician Carolyn Coker Ross offers the proven-effective Anchor Programâ„¢ to help you curb cravings, end body dissatisfaction, manage stress and emotions without food, and truly satisfy your soul.When...
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Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate

Scott F. Parker · Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day withan entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics,metaphysics, and culture of coffee. * Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffeediscusses...
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Overcoming the Fear of Fear: How to Reduce Anxiety Sensitivity

Steven Taylor · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Anxiety isn't all in your head. When you feel nervous, symptoms such as chills, sweating, heart palpitations, and shaking can affect your whole body. If you worry that others notice these anxiety symptoms or fear that they could be harmful to your health, you may have anxiety sensitivity....
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Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom from a Remarkable Man

Morrie Schwartz · Walker & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

For everyone who enjoyed the inspiration and wisdom of Morrie Schwartz in Mitch Albom's moving best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie, here is Morrie's own book, presenting the philosophies by which he triumphantly lived, even as he faced the end of his life.For decades Morrie engaged...
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The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Bill Maher · Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author and host of HBO's Real Time, Bill Maher's new book of political riffs serves up a savagely funny set of rules for preserving sanity in an insane world

A follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The New Rules, The New New Rules...

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