Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 1, 2006 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-7963-8 (0-8070-7963-4)
After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, “I’m your new mommy!” While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: January 25, 2011 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-51448-6 (0-345-51448-3)
Most of us have met our Outer Child once too often. The self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of the personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis—the devil on your shoulder—blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. A menacing older sibling to your emotionally needy Inner Child, your Outer Child acts out...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: October 26, 1999 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-609-80472-8 (0-609-80472-3)
Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives.
Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend, and every parent of a daughter has seen her come home from school in tears because a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: October 8, 2002 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0872-6 (0-7679-0872-4)
With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of “high sensitivity” and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Up to 20 percent of the population is born highly sensitive, and now in The Highly...Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: June 12, 1986 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-33925-6 (0-345-33925-8)
The classic of child therapy. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very special prison. And he is alone. This is the true story of how he learned to reach out for the sunshine, for life . . . how he came to the...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 9, 2013 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-9337-0 (0-8129-9337-3)
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became...
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Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Harmony On Sale: March 29, 2005 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-1-4000-8152-3 (1-4000-8152-1)
“A godsend to the increasing number of families who have a child recently diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (AS). They will get sympathetic and sound practical advice for the difficulties they are facing, whether it is in coming to terms with the diagnosis or in choosing the right kind of education and...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: February 19, 2013 Price: $27.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-9280-9 (0-8129-9280-6)
To read the author’s essay to educators, go to: http://tiny.cc/rpzzrw
Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: April 10, 2012 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0134-9 (0-8070-0134-1)
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in the number of young people taking psychiatric medication--but, despite a heated debate on the issue, we haven’t heard directly from the “medicated kids” themselves. In Dosed, Kaitlin Bell Barnett, who was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, weaves together...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: March 27, 2012 Price: $23.95 ISBN: 978-1-60980-391-9 (1-60980-391-4)
Belli moves beyond the distractions of the vaccine debate and presents compelling evidence that exposure to heavy metals and other chemicals, when paired with genetic susceptibilities, impacts the brain development of children.
The alarming spike in autism in recent years has sent doctors and parents on a search for answers. And while...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 13, 2004 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49389-5 (0-385-49389-4)
Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families...
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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Other Press On Sale: January 20, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59051-257-9 (1-59051-257-X)
How can we sustain love when lurking rivals, imaginary or real, threaten to destroy our fragile state of happiness? How can we love freely when jealousy becomes more seductive than love itself? Isolated by the sheer terror of being betrayed sooner or later, the jealous lover hangs in suspense, waiting for...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 27, 1997 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-78128-8 (0-679-78128-5)
Where have all the grown-ups gone?
At the close of the twentieth century, adults have regressed toward adolescence while adolescents refuse to become adults. Respect for elders has given way to the furious competition of peers or siblings who strive not to be good or great but to be famous. Community has...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: May 2, 2006 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-720-6 (1-58322-720-2)
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: February 1, 1992 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-35389-1 (0-553-35389-6)
Bradshaw's Homecoming is a call for the recognition and treatment of the damaged inner child--the core self with which all are born and which is damaged and hidden when the growing child adapts to life in a dysfunctional family.
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Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: August 1, 1985 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-26814-0 (0-553-26814-7)
The culmination of Dr. Branden's work of three decades in the area of self-esteem, this book reveals how the level of our self-regard affects our work, creativity, and relationships—all the struggles and goals of our existence.
Students will learn: How to grow in self-confidence and self-respect; How to nurture self-esteem in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: May 1, 1995 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-37439-1 (0-553-37439-7)
The culmination of Nathaniel Branden's clinical practice and study of self-esteem, this is the definitive work by the leading pioneer in the field. The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness, and positive relationships. Branden introduces the six pillars-six action-based practices for daily living that...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: April 20, 1999 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0103-1 (0-7679-0103-7)
Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.
There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America. For most of them, the simple, daily issues...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype On Sale: March 23, 2010 Price: $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2753-6 (0-7679-2753-2)
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly anticipated follow-up. Dr. Brizendine draws upon the latest scientific breakthroughs to show how, through every phase of life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different from the female one. Following the male brain from infancy...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 1, 1993 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-41426-5 (0-385-41426-9)
Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 1, 1998 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73529-8 (0-679-73529-1)
Choice Outstanding Academic Book
“The Body Project is at once rigorous and very accessible. Brumberg’s use of the intimate voices of girls’s diaries opened a wonderful discussion about sexuality in my women’s studies seminar. Students could see what was distinctive about their generation’s assumptions. In short, they could see themselves as part...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 10, 2000 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72448-0 (0-375-72448-6)
Winner of The Berkshire Prize in History, The John Hope Franklin Prize for American Studies, The Basker Memorial Prize for Medical Anthropology and The Watson Davis Prize for History of Science
This updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Celestial Arts On Sale: August 4, 2009 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-1-58761-346-3 (1-58761-346-8)
An estimated one million children in the United States are affected by divorce each year, and studies show that the most difficult aspect for most children is adjusting to the loss of one parent. Currently, 80 percent of children whose parents are no longer together live in sole-mother custody arrangements, and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: March 1, 2005 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38232-7 (0-553-38232-2)
A remarkable testament of hope and love, these pages recount Howard Buten’s lifelong journey working with autistic children. For three decades his pioneering, often controversial approaches have enabled him to gain access to their strange and solitary universe—a universe he shares in a book that is unlike any you’ve ever read...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: January 29, 2013 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-35215-6 (0-307-35215-3)
An ALA Notable Book of 2012 Named a "Best Book of 2012" by Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal Selected for Common Reading at Case Western Reserve University
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but...
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