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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
Hector Macdonald · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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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My Autistic Awakening: Unlocking the Potential for a Life Well Lived
RACHAEL LEE HARRIS · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 232 Format: Paperback
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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
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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
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"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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