Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 9, 2003 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3244-0 (1-4000-3244-X)
Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, her first full-length work of nonfiction. In Normal, the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist explores sex and gender through portraits...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 17, 1989 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72473-5 (0-679-72473-7)
In this "distinguished and necessary book" (The New York Times Book Review) Bok discusses the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in government, science, public affairs, family life, psychotherapy and the confessional.
Under what circumstances is it wrong to pry into secrets? Are there times when a promise of secrecy must be...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: June 12, 2012 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-0-307-95586-9 (0-307-95586-9)
An inspiring transformational journal to help find meaning, vision, and purpose based on the seven rules of the road from My Orange Duffel Bag that helped Sam Bracken accomplish his goals and stay on the right road to success. Recommended as a companion to the award-winning memoir My Orange Duffel Bag...Read more >
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: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: April 28, 2009 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-09592-0 (0-553-09592-7)
In his groundbreaking New York Times bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw transformed our understanding of the family and became a dominant figure in the field of addiction and recovery. Now he brings together a lifetime of experience and teaching to redefine virtue—how we learn it and live it—for...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: July 5, 2011 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52906-8 (0-385-52906-6)
In a powerful, story-driven narrative that weaves together cutting-edge research in psychology and sociology, organizational business consultant Ori Brafman and psychologist Rom Brafman explore what it means to “click”: the common factors present when our brain and senses are fully engaged. From two co-workers who fall head over heels for each...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: June 2, 2009 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-53060-6 (0-385-53060-9)
A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.
Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone “important”?...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: January 1, 2013 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-88769-6 (0-307-88769-3)
For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and achieve spectacular success.
How is it that individuals who are not...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-359-6 (1-59017-359-7)
The Outward Room is a rediscovered classic of American literature, a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery that is as immediate and moving today as when it first appeared in 1937. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her younger brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth...
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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 Books 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: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: February 17, 2009 Price: $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6654-4 (1-4000-6654-9)
From the beloved New York Times columnist, trusted authority on health, and bestselling author comes this complete guide to everything readers need to know—emotionally, spiritually, and practically—to prepare for the end of life.
An invaluable road map to putting affairs in order—or helping loved ones do the same—this comprehensive book will answer...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 3, 2012 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7937-4 (0-8129-7937-0)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: June 12, 2012 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-902-5 (1-59030-902-2)
Millions of Americans suffer from mood problems and stress-related issues including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and trauma-induced emotions and behaviors; and most would prefer not to take medication for their conditions due to troublesome side effects, withdrawal symptoms, and disappointing success rates.
Drs. Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg provide a...
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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, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 15, 2002 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72751-1 (0-375-72751-5)
When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face...
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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, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books 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 and Rice 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...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown On Sale: January 24, 2012 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-35214-9 (0-307-35214-5)
Library Journal Best Books of 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012 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 prefer not to pitch their own ideas; who favor working on their own...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: May 26, 1992 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-90732-0 (0-449-90732-5)
When Joan Frances Casey "awoke" on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. It wasn't the first time she had blanked out.
After only a few sessions with Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, Casey discovered she had MPD--Multiple Personality...
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Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: September 1, 1985 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-31925-2 (0-440-31925-0)
Written in clear and precise language, this complete, up-to-date dictionary includes definitions of psychological terms and those from related disciplines including psychoanlysis, psychiatry and biology as well as parapsychology.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: December 28, 2004 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-46891-8 (0-345-46891-0)
A revised guide to stress management identifies the causes of stress, suggests techniques and strategies for handling them, and includes advice on relaxation, assertiveness, nutrition, and time management. It also contains new information on gender differences in stress response, stress disorders, new medications and treatments, alternative therapies, stress and the challenges...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 29, 1998 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75018-2 (0-375-75018-5)
Acclaim for Peggy Claude-Pierre's The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
"Peggy Claude-Pierre has gone beyond the surface of eating disorders to discover their true causes and then present a valid and healing path. In this extremely constructive book, she offers incredible insights into the mind of the sufferer and the myths of...
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