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The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety

Harold S. Koplewicz
Format: Hardcover

Just as sturdy scaffolding is necessary when erecting a building and will come down when the structure grows stable, good parenting provides children with steady and warm emotional nourishment on the path toward independence. Never-ending parental problem-solving and involvement can have...
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Mate? - Avery
Format: Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western...
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In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

Nate Anderson
Format: Hardcover

An Ars Technica Holiday Reading Title of 2021 A lively and approachable meditation on how we can transform our digital lives if we let a little Nietzsche in.Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency,...
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Why Trust Science?

Naomi Oreskes - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback

Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science,...
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The JASPER Model for Children with Autism: Promoting Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation

Connie Kasari - ?The Guilford Press; Annotated edition
Format: Annotated Edition

This full-color, clinician-friendly manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention. With a strong evidence base, JASPER provides a clear, flexible structure to bolster early skills core to social communication...
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Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

Kevin Dutton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. Though the world was arguably simpler back then, it was in many ways much more dangerous. Not coincidentally, the binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats...
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All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

Tash Oakes-Monger - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Paperback

'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'. Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love...
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients - or that two judges in the same courthouse give different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different food inspectors give different ratings to indistinguishable restaurants...
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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

Matthew Stewart - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award.Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys,...
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Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It

Paul Conti MD - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

Imagine, if you will, a disease -- one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice, one that transfers easily between parent and child, one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize...
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