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Homemade: 707 Products to Make Yourself to Save Money and the Earth

Editors of Reader's Digest · Reader's Digest
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Make your own pantry staples, cleaning products, pet food, health and beauty supplies, and hundreds of other household items - fast, fresh, and more naturally.Here are low-cost, all-natural replacement recipes for more than 700 name-brand products that you buy week in and week out at the supermarket,...
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Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask

Dalton Conley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

In this eye-opening, witty book, an award-winning scientist offers his unorthodox but highly engaged approach to childrearing - and reveals groundbreaking research and strategies to produce creative and confident children.All parenting is about experimenting (whether you know it or not)....
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Gentle Discipline: Using Emotional Connection--Not Punishment--to Raise Confident, Capable Kids

Sarah Ockwell-Smith · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A practical guide that presents an alternative to shouting, shaming, and blaming--to give kids the skills they need to grow and thriveDiscipline is an essential part of raising happy and successful kids, but as more and more parents are discovering, conventional approaches often don't work,...
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In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Inter-abled Romance

BEN MATTLIN · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In this chronicle of will and hope, Ben Mattlin demystifies the inter-abled relationship, showing that it should be a matter neither of wonder nor of pity. This is an urgent, deeply felt, and sometimes hilarious account of marriages that feel as obvious to those within them as they do bewildering...
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War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

Anne McGuire · University of Michigan Press
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback

Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social...
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A Letter for Every Mother

Kara Lawler · Center Street
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"HuffPost Parents bloggers, Kara Lawler and Regan Long, have written a beautiful, inspiring collection of essays that speak to mothers at all stages of their journey."--Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post"While one of the most extraordinary...
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All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems

Sean Thomas Dougherty · Boa Editions
Pages: 201
Format: Print book

For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman. His subject matter ranges from basketball to Bjork, from blue collar workers to Biggie Smalls, from Luciano Pavarotti to women...
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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting

Alfie Kohn · Da Capo Press
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

Somehow, a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children--what they're like and how they should be raised--have congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society. Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid to let their...
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Like My Mother Always Said...: Wise Words, Witty Warnings, and Odd Advice We Never Forget

Erin McHugh · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

During an afternoon of coffee and conversation, a friend of Erin McHugh’s pointed out that she frequently invoked quotations and memories from her mother. Then Erin started noticing how many other people did the same. It also became clear how humorous, moving, and unusual these gems...
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Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill, Revised and Updated Edition: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman · Harmony; Rev Upd edition
Format: Book

Completely revised and updated, a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine. Thereis no bigger or more important issue in America...
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Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

Karen Panetta · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

There is a place for all girls and young women - not just the science fair winners and robotics club members - in STEM classes and careers To succeed in science and tech fields today, girls don't have to change who they are. A girl who combines her natural talents, interests, and dreams...
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The Fundamentals of Guardianship: What Every Guardian Should Know

Sally Balch Hurme · American Bar Association
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

Serving as guardian is never simple or easy. Having the responsibility to make major life decisions for another is much more difficult than making decisions for oneself. This book thoroughly explains the roles and responsibilities of a guardian and provides a step-by-step guide through...
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Helping Adults with Asperger's Syndrome Get & Stay Hired: Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the Autism

Barbara Bissonnette · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Employment expert Barbara Bissonnette provides strategies that professionals and parents need to guide individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to manageable jobs, and keep them employed. Career counselors and coaches, vocational rehabilitation specialists, other...
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Dragonfly: A Daughter's Emergence from Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents

Lori Ashley Taylor · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A parent's guide to helping children with autism maximize their potential. Over a decade ago, an autism diagnosis had confined Lori Ashley Taylor's daughter Hannah to an inaccessible world. Lori became a tireless researcher, worker, and advocate, and her dedication showed results....
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Square One: A Simple Guide to a Balanced Life

Joseph Maroon MD · Pythia Publishing
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

ABOUT THE BOOK: After becoming a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph Maroon felt he'd achieved success. At the age of 41, however, a rapid series of losses and setbacks led him into a baffling new reality-and straight into the darkness of depression. Maroon's unexpected savior...
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