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The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp Publisher Comments Perfect for expecting parents who want to provide a soothing home for the newest member of their family, The Happiest Baby on the Block, the national bestseller by respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, is a revolutionary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin Publisher Comments One womans quest to do one new thing every day of the year, what she learned, and what we all can gain from her journey... In 2009 veteran journalist and eight-time Emmy award winner Lu Ann Cahn was feeling angry and frustrated. The economy was tanking... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Publisher Comments In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys Into Exceptional Men by Michael Gurian Publisher Comments The groundbreaking book that tells what parents, mentors and educators can do to shape boys into exceptional men. A Tarcher/Putnam Paperback.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Parenting Teens With Love and Logic ((Rev)06 Edition) by Foster Cline Publisher Comments Life is good--except you can't stand your job, your daughter won't listen to you, your wife isn't the person you thought you married, and your dog isn't house-trained, even after five years. Regain hope and purpose in what seems to be your out-of-control... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Personality Plus by Florence Littauer Publisher Comments Although we may not admit it to anyone else, all of us know there are areas in our personalities that need improvement. In this new edition of the bestselling book, Littauer examines the strengths and weaknesses of the four temperaments that comprise... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat Zinn Publisher Comments Jon Kabat-Zinn's national bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are (400,000 sold) introduced the nation to mindfulness, the simple and powerful meditative practice of cultivating moment-to-moment awareness for greater peace and purposefulness in life... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. Publisher Comments In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman Publisher Comments In his new book James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung. In a profound extension of Jung's ideas of the collective unconscious, Hillman goes back to classical theories in terms of the poetics of mythology. He relates our... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #0012: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study by Marion Woodman Publisher Comments "This book is about taking the head off an evil witch." A powerful study of the nature of the feminine in food rituals, dreams, mythology, body work, Christianity, sexuality, creativity and relationships.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina H Sommers Publisher Comments Despite popular belief, American boys tag behind girls in reading and writing ability, and they are less likely to go to college. Our young men are greatly at risk, yet the best-known studies and experts insist that it's girls who are in need of our... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Positive Personality Profiles: Discover Personality Insights to Understand Yourself and Others by Robert Rohm Publisher Comments Using the easily learned ""D-I-S-C"" system, Dr. Robert A. Rohms Positive Personality Profiles helps readers understand themselves and others. Dr. Rohms new book will clearly describe key differences in basic personality types, give practical insights... (read more) List Price $16.20 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin De Becker Publisher Comments Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Creative Age : Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (00 Edition) by Gene D. Cohen Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Flames of CreativityYou see things: and say "Why?" But I dream things that never were: and say "Why not?"-- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" The human spirit of creativity is indomitable. It has uplifted lives in every... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Publisher Comments "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in--and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities— From the Very Start by Magda Gerber Publisher Comments The founder and director of Resources for Infant Educarers in Los Angeles provides a gold mine of advice on infant care and development. Infant specialist Magda Gerber shows parents her methods for raising a child to be confident and self-motivated... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations Into the History of Psychological Research (6TH 09 - Old Edition) by Roger R. Hock Publisher Comments This unique book closes the gap between psychology textbooks and the research that made them possible by offering a first hand glimpse into 40 of the most famous studies in the history of the field, and subsequent studies that expanded upon each study... (read more) List Price $53.85 Your price: $37.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Scientist in the Crib (99 Edition) by Alison Gopnik Publisher Comments This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Publisher Comments Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children — and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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