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Keeping Your Adoptive Family Strong: Strategies for Success
L. Gianforte · Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Print book
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Welcoming a new child into the home through adoption is a life-altering experience -- for the child, the parents, and everyone else in the family. Expectations and realities often differ dramatically, and adjusting to the change can be difficult and emotionally painful. Since the majority... |
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means... |
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie Roiphe · The Dial Press, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected... |
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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy's allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal?... |
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand of matchbook... |
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Rebecca Goldstein · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 459
Format: Hardcover
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Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy,... |
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Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
Francis Mark Mondimore · Johns Hopkins University Press; third edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimores pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its third edition, Bipolar Disorder has been thoroughly updated with new information about the causes of the disorder, tools... |
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Infidelity: Why Men and Women Cheat
KENNETH PAUL ROSENBERG · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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What the latest science tells us about the brain's reward systems, love, and sex--and how to prevent an affair from destroying your lifeIn both genders and across age groups, infidelity is on the rise. People often cheat in a haze of delusion, believing that it will bring them real... |
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If Your Adolescent Has ADHD: An Essential Resource for Parents
Thomas J Power · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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Adolescents (ages 12-20) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at risk for academic problems, strained relationships, peer rejection and unsafe behavior -- and parents are often at a loss for how to handle these challenges. If Your Adolescent Has ADHD: An Essential... |
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No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America
Elizabeth D. Samet · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peaceElizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed Soldier's Heart, came to question... |
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Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss
Joseph J. Luciani · AMACOM
Format: Print book
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Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? Youre not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on. Thin from Within delves... |
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Marc Lewis · Public Affairs
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have... |
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
DANIEL J SIEGEL · Bantam
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for positive thinking.When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often... |
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