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BIPOLAR WELLNESS: How to Recover from Bipolar Illness: An Entertaining Memoir with Simple Action Strategies for Every Stage of Recovery

Michael Rose · Bipolar Wellness Press
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

"For those wanting to save years of trial and error, "Bipolar Wellness" is the most comprehensive book I have ever read for practical help on how to naturally treat bipolar illness- bar none." Gabriel Alexander Reed If you or a loved one suffer with Bipolar Disorder,...
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Teenagers with ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

CHRIS A ZEIGLER DENDY · Woodbine House
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback

A seasoned expert and veteran parent, Chris Zeigler Dendy looks at key areas (academics, dating, driving, socializing, and greater independence) that make adolescence potentially more difficult for kids with ADD, ADHD, or executive function deficits. This new edition is expanded and refreshed...
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They'll Never Be the Same: A Parent's Guide to PTSD in Youth

Michael S Scheeringa · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents...
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: 7 Ways to Freedom from Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts!

Lawrence Wallace · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

A Practical Guide to Mental and Emotional Freedom! Take action now and download this book for a limited time discount! Feeling lost about how to effectively treat disturbing intrusive thoughts? You're not alone! This book contains brilliant advice from a former sufferer of anxiety,...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, Revised Edition: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD

ROBERT O FRIEDEL · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

For anyone diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and their friends and loved ones, the invaluable guide to understanding and living with BPD, now revised and updatedBPD is a chronic, disabling psychiatric condition that causes extreme instability in one's emotional life, behavior,...
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Addict in the House: A No-Nonsense Family Guide Through Addiction and Recovery

Robin Barnett EdD LCSW · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Everyone suffers when there's an addict in the family. Written by an expert in alcohol and drug addiction and recovery, this no-nonsense guide will help you understand the causes of addiction, end enabling behaviors, support your loved one's recovery, and learn how to cope with...
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

Lily Bailey · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey...
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World

Melissa A Schilling · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, looks at the lives of seven creative geniuses--Albert...
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Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality

Hector Macdonald · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs.True or false? It's rarely that simple.There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates...
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I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy

CRIS BEAM · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking,...
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The Common Good

Robert B Reich · Knopf
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,...
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society

UMBERTO ECO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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My Autistic Awakening: Unlocking the Potential for a Life Well Lived

RACHAEL LEE HARRIS · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Rachael Lee Harris spent her early childhood locked in an autistic fog until beginning her journey from a fragmented world to one in which things began to make sense. Rachael's determination to take her place in society led her down many paths, from beauty therapist to Catholic nun,...
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Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life

Laura James · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly,...
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.

Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about...
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