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Raising Your Spirited Baby: A Breakthrough Guide to Thriving When Your Baby Is More . . . Alert and Intense and Struggles to Sleep

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Format: Paperback

"Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D., brings her expertise in raising spirited children to help you understand and soothe your spirited baby. Her research-based, parent-tested strategies will help your baby sleep better and develop a calmer, more resilient brain and nervous system. I'll...
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

STEPHEN KOTKIN · Penguin Press
Pages: 1154
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history

In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial...
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Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Ten Days in a Mad-House, describing New York City's most notorious mental institution, were written by journalist Nellie Bly in 1887. It was no mere armchair observation, because Bly got herself committed to Blackwell's and wrote a shocking exposé called Ten Days In A Madhouse....
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The Secret Language of Dreams: A Visual Key to Dreams and Their Meanings

David Fontana · Chronicle Books
Format: Unabridged]

The interpretation of dreams and the images that pervade them is a perennially popular subject that has challenged philosophers, psychiatrists, and lay people for centuries. In The Secret Language of Dreams, author and psychologist David Fontana combines the theories of Freud, Jung, and others...
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Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World

Christine Fonseca · Prufrock Press
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback

Being an introverted child is difficult, especially in an ever-increasingly noisy world. Often viewed as aloof, unmotivated or conceited, introverted children are deeply misunderstood by parents, educators and even their peers. That's where "Quiet Kids: Helping Your Introverted...
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Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

Alva No? · Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines...
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The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement

Jean M Twenge · Free Press
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's whyÊfive times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years...
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Autism Breakthrough: The Groundbreaking Method That Has Helped Families All Over the World

Raun Kahlil Kaufman · St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate autism expert...
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