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How to Connect with Your iTeen: A Parenting Road Map
Susan Morris Shaffer · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Bullying, gangs, social media, smartphones, reality TV . . . meet the real-life firewall for keeping teens safe How To Connect With Your iTeen is the lifeline every Twenty-First century parent or educator needs. This realistic guide shows adults how to reopen communication with "silent"... |
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Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Chokyi Dragpa · Wisdom Publications
Format: Paperback
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A unique presentation of the Buddhist path by Chökyi Dragpa, the foremost Gelug disciple of the famed nineteenth-century Tibetan master Patrul Rinpoche. Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattvas quotations and direct instructions from realized sages of the past reinforce... |
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The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and for All
Cheri Huber · Keep It Simple Books
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book examines how fear is an experience, how to recognize that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor oneself into letting go of beliefs about "appropriate" responses... |
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Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
Tommie Shelby · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan's report on the black family and the Kerner Commission's investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor -- such... |
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The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, The Philosophy Book explores the history and concepts of philosophy, and demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter.Are the ideas of René Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes still relevant today? The Philosophy Book unpacks the writings... |
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy
David C Spencer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy aims to provide clear and reliable information about epilepsy, including "what" (definition) , "how" (pathophysiology) , "who" (epidemiology) , and "why" (etiology) . The volume guides the reader through current... |
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother... |
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A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging: Coping with Change
H Michael Zal · Lexington Books
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father's way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional... |
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When Will I Be Good Enough?: A Replacement Child's Journey to Healing
BARBARA JAFFE · Lisa Hagan Books
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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Have you ever wondered, "When will I be good enough?" Like millions of other women, educator/author Barbara Jaffe was faced with that question, but for her, as a "replacement child," the barriers to acceptability were higher than for most of us. Barbara, like many others,... |
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Game of Thrones Psychology: The Mind is Dark and Full of Terrors
Travis Langley · Sterling
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Insight is coming!This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and compelling characters in author George R.R. Martin's bestselling work, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the the popular HBO TV series based upon his books, Game... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another.... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Naomi Judd · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world... |
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