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1) No-drama discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind
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"The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child now explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline. Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears--without causing a scene ..."--Cover.
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2013.
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Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
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"In this informative and entertaining account, Williams investigates cutting-edge research as she travels to fragrant cypress forests in Korea to meet the rangers who administer “forest healing programs,” to the green hills of Scotland and its “ecotherapeutic” approach to caring for the mentally ill, to a river trip in Idaho with Iraqi vets suffering from PTSD, to the West Virginia mountains where she discovers how being outside helps children...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
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xv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2022.
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294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Functional medicine innovator and founder of nationally renowned practice Parsley Health, Dr. Robin Berzin's definitive work on how to fight the physical ailments at the root of the international epidemic of burnout, anxiety, and stress"--
7) The stuff
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Gallery Book & Jeter Publishing
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2018.
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xiii, 349 pages ; 24 cm
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"Survivors themselves, Dr. Sampson Davis and Sharlee Jeter have created The Stuff Movement, interviewing dozens of people to find the common threads that enabled them to triumph over their challenges. Through the powerful stories of people who overcame cancer, poverty, toxic relationships, racism, violence, career roadblocks, and other obstacles big and smallThe Stuff highlights eleven core elements that will help you not only survive but thrive in...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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2015.
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162 pages ; 19 cm
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As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It's that simple-- and that hard. Lende reminds us that we can choose to see any event as an opportunity to find the good.
10) Petra
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Tundra Books/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain . . . until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg! An egg of the world in a world of possibility. Until she's flung into a pond, and becomes an amazing island . . . and, eventually, a little girl's pet rock. What will she be tomorrow? Who knows? But she's a rock, and this is how she rolls!"--Amazon.com.
Petra is trying...
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Rise
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"An age-appropriate introduction to the concepts of race, gender, consent and body positivity, developed by early childhood and activism experts, combines clear text with engaging artwork to help the youngest children recognize and confront unjust actions."--
12) Baby present
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Parallax Press
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[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm
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Introduces young readers to the concept of mindfulness, encouraging them to enjoy the present moment and not to dwell on the past or future.
13) Rising strong
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"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a...
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2017.
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251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Consciente de la importancia que tiene el bienestar en las personas en un mundo marcado por el estrés y la violencia, el doctor César Lozano acude a la Ciencia de la felicidad, a las lecciones de vida orientadas a valorar la amistad, el amor y la convivencia, y a las investigaciones científicas más recientes sobre el bienestar y la salud, para entregarnos un libro divertido y muy útil con los mejores tips para vivir en armonía, combatir el...
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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2013
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253 p. ; 23 cm.
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Discusses how to embrace vulnerability in order to live whole, courageous lives, explaining that traits typically regarded as character flaws and weaknesses are actually clear paths to engagement and meaningful connections.
17) The giver
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Editorial Oc�eano de M�exico, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
2018.
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628 pages ; 23 cm
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Amoral, inmisericorde, despiadada y sobre todo, muy instructiva, esta incisiva obra concentra tres mil a�nos de historia del poder en cuarenta y ocho leyes clras y concisas. Robert Greene detalla las leyes del poder en su esencia m�as cruda, sintetizando el pensamiento de Maquiavelo, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clasewitz y otros grandes te�oricos y estrategas.
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Questioneers volume 2
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xv, 333 pages ; 22 cm
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"Anyone who has followed an active toddler around for a day knows that a child of this age is a whirlwind of explosive, contradictory, and ever-changing emotions. Alicia F. Lieberman offers an in-depth examination of toddlers' emotional development and illuminates how to optimize this crucial stage so that toddlers can develop into emotionally healthy children and adults. Drawing on her lifelong research, Dr. Lieberman addresses commonly asked questions...
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