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The new social story book

Carol Gray · Future Horizons
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

Since the early 90s, Carol Gray's world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary Edition of her best-selling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and new sections added...
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Bullies in the Workplace: Seeing and Stopping Adults Who Abuse Their Co-Workers and Employees

Michele A. Paludi · Praeger
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

A team of interdisciplinary experts provides an up-to-date review of current theories, empirical research, and management strategies that will help organizations address workplace bullying through both prevention and intervention.* Takes a lifespan developmental approach to understanding...
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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

Nancy Colier · Sounds True
Pages: 229
Format: Paperback

Effective mindfulness practices for transforming your relationship with technology and reconnecting with your real life Our reliance on technology is rapidly changing how each of us experiences life. We're facing new issues and difficulties, we're encountering new emotional triggers,...
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How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion

Marcus Tullius Cicero · Princeton University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd...
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Walking with Plato

Gary Hayden · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.' So said Friedrich Nietzsche, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John o'Groats to Land's End.But it wasn't all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard...
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Drawing Calm: Relax, refresh, refocus with 20 drawing, painting, and collage workshops inspired by Klimt, Klee, Monet, and more

Susan Evenson · Quarry Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Maybe it's the colors, or the eye-stretching vistas, or maybe it's just the idea that harmony can exist on a square of canvas, but there is something in art that lets it calm and inspire at the same time.In Drawing Calm, artist Susan Evenson, shows readers how to do the same. It's a book...
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Mark Twain and Philosophy

Alan H Goldman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on humanity and American life, is best known for his classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's body of work, however, is expansive; from Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut...
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future

Joselin Linder · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors...
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Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

Craig Lambert · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound...
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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud · Forgotten Books
Format: Book

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud is classed as one of Freuds most famous works and as such is a brilliant read for those looking to gain a deeper understanding of psychoanalysis. Do not be misled in thinking the book is a difficult read, Freud approaches the subject...
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Crash course in dealing with difficult library customers

Shelley Mosley; Dennis C Tucker; Sandra Van Winkle · Libraries Unlimited
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Every library experiences difficult patrons. Thorough preparation is the best defense: it's always much better to be proactive than reactive. The authors of Crash Course in Dealing with Difficult Library Customers realized that these kinds of situations are more universal than unique,...
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes...
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Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids

Denise Pope · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Praise for Overloaded and Underprepared Parents, teachers, and administrators are all concerned that America s kids are stressed out, checked out, or both but many have no idea where to begin when it comes to solving the problem. That s why the work of Challenge Success is so urgent. It has created...
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Body Thrive: Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga

Cate Stillman · Yogahealer Press
Pages: 316
Format: Print book

Body Thrive applies the most essential teachings of Ayurveda into a modern life by decoding the teachings into habits. Ayurveda is the perennial body wisdom tradition that co-arose with yoga, the path of living awake. Here lies a simple body habits curriculum that every person can learn...
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