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The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

Tony Attwood · Jessica Kingsley Pub
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover

"I usually say to the child, "Congratulations, you have Asperger's syndrome", and explain that this means he or she is not mad, bad or defective, but has a different way of thinking." - from "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome". "The Complete...
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest

Michael Krasny · New World Library
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge...
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Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

Victoria L. Dunckley · New World Library
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A no-cost, nonpharmaceutical treatment plan for children with behavioral and mental health challengesIncreasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism,...
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive

Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers...
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The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24-7

Kevin Hogan · Network 3000
Pages: 304
Format: Book

A simple and tested system to reduce or eliminate procrastination, meet your goals and live the life and lifestyle you choose. A radical departure from self help books, this book is grounded in research about individual productivity, time management and goal achievement. The author explains...
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Bandy X Lee · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.This is not normal.Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt · W.W. Norton
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from...
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Afraid to Let Go. For Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics

Mary Crocker Cook · Robertson Publishing
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback

You are not Codependent simply because your adult child is an addict or alcoholic. All parents of addicted children of any age are terrified, confused, feel out of control, lose sleep, dread the phone calls at 3:00 in the morning. This book is for parents who are Afraid to Let Go because...
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Common Sense and Rights of Man: Bold-faced thoughts on revolution, reason, and personal freedom

Thomas Paine · Sterling
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The newest entry in our popular "Bold-faced" series offers an innovative reading of Thomas Paine's two most influential essays. Readers will find inspiration in this unique edition, which features the authoritative text of Paine's works, highlighted important passages,...
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Scott Barry Kaufman · Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative...
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Conscience of a Conservative

ANONYMOUS. · Random House
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative....
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The New Feminine Brain: How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition

Mona Lisa Schulz · Free Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Explains how a woman's mind differs from that of a man, reveals why females often have a greater capacity for multitasking skills, and outlines ways to improve health while avoiding gender-specific brain vulnerabilities.
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The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking

Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality,...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay · Wordsworth Reference
Pages: 724
Format: Paperback

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions...
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