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Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst: Practical Compassion in Parenting

Payne, Kim John · Shambhala
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A practical, meditative approach that can be used in the moment to help you stay calm and balanced when your child's behavior is pushing you to your limit--by the popular author of Simplicity Parenting.When children are at their most difficult and challenging situations arise, how can we react...
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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Marc Brackett · Celadon Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study...
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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

Duncan White · Custom House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could...
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Three Women

Taddeo, Lisa · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinary ... A nonfiction literary masterpiece ... I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women." - Elizabeth Gilbert "Beautifully written ... This is one of the most riveting, assured, and scorchingly original debuts I've...
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Neiman, Susan · 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 pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing...
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Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business

Thomas Erikson · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots shares a simple, revolutionary method of understanding the people around you that will change how you interact with everyone from your coworkers to your spouse. Author Thomas Erikson...
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