Back Psychology & Philosophy | March Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Psychology & Philosophy  
Coming Home to Autism: A Room-by-Room Approach to Supporting Your Child at Home after ASD Diagnosis

Tara Leniston · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

What does an autism diagnosis mean for everyday family life? Explore different rooms in the home to better understand how children with autism experience daily activities, and what you can do to support their development.· Head to the bathroom for guidance on toilet training and introducing...
Read More check catalog
 
 
F*ck Love: One Shrink's Sensible Advice for Finding a Lasting Relationship

Michael M D Bennett · Touchstone
Pages: 253
Format: Print book

From the brilliant New York Times bestselling authors of the "refreshingly blunt" (Harper's Bazaar) F*ck Feelings - this seriously irreverent roadmap reveals the essentials to look for when you're done being suckered by the promise of true love and want help seeking a real,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
When Your Daughter Has BPD: Essential Skills to Help Families Manage Borderline Personality Disorder

Daniel S. Lobel PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

In this groundbreaking book, psychologist Daniel Lobel offers essential skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you understand your daughter's disorder, define appropriate boundaries, put an end to daily emergencies, and rebuild...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

SLAVOJ ZIZEK · Verso
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin's thought is still important todayLenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Žižek argues in this new study and collection...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Make It Now!: Creative Inspiration and the Art of Getting Things Done

Anthony Burrill · Virgin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Graphic artist Anthony Burrill offers a life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving and getting things done. Full of inspiration and ideas as well as his best-loved prints and new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity. If you're...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD That Restores Attention, Minimizes Hyperactivity, and Helps Eliminate Drug Side Effects

James Greenblatt · Harmony
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

DISCOVER THE ADHD SOLUTION FOR YOUR CHILDDr. James Greenblatt has seen thousands of children and adults struggling with the symptoms of ADHD - hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and often irritability and combativeness. Rather than simply prescribing medication for their ADHD...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Break Through with Breathwork: Jump-Starting Personal Growth in Counseling and the Healing Arts

Jim Morningstar · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

When working with trauma and chronic health issues, it can often seem like the healing process gets stuck or is producing only minimal progress. In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Jim Morningstar, PhD, shows therapists, bodyworkers, and other health care professionals how to achieve...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

Susan Engel · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Despite American educations recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is a deeply researched, highly readable...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians

Bart Schultz · Princeton University Press
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other foundersIn The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism--one of the most influential...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

Edmund Fawcett · Princeton University Press
Pages: 468
Format: Print book

Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free

Susan Peirce Thompson · Hay House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

Andrew S. Curran · Other Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence....
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them

JULIE KLAM · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important. "When I was young I was convinced celebrities could save me," Julie Klam admits in The Stars...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons

Todd D Nelson · A Bradford Book
Pages: 365
Format: Paperback

Current research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers, revised and updated.People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others--even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound...
Read More check catalog