|
|
|
|  | Our Boys Speak by John Nikkah, Leah Furman
In this companion book to Sarah Shandler's OPHELIA SPEAKS, Nikkah, a graduate student in clinical psychology, has compiled poetry, essays, and stories from adolescent boys across the country on a range of issues that crop up daily--from romance to sports, school to family, depression to violence. AUTHOR: John Nikkah, Leah Furman
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice 
|
 | The Pre-Teen & Teenagers Guide to Personal Growth, Health, Safety, Sex, & Survival by Debrah Harris-Johnson, Tony Rose, Wayne Summerlin
Description not available.A guide to understanding the world and how to live in it successfully, discussing safety, survival, sex, money, time, and responsibility. AUTHOR: Debrah Harris-Johnson, Tony Rose, Wayne Summerlin
PUBLISHER: Amber Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
|
 | Be My Baby by Gail Kinn, Ken Shung
In this b&w photo-essay adoptive parents, children, and birth parents share their thoughts on adoption. AUTHOR: Gail Kinn, Ken Shung
PUBLISHER: Artisan
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Advice
|
 | When a Life Mate Dies by Grace Brumett, Jane-Ellen Tibbals, Susan Heinlein
Description not available.Men and women share accounts of their losses of partners, describing their grief and the ways in adjusted to being alone AUTHOR: Grace Brumett, Jane-Ellen Tibbals, Susan Heinlein
PUBLISHER: Fairview Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
|
 | Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In his interviews with more than 90 creative individuals--including actor Ed Asner, authors Robertson Davies and Nadine Gordimer, scientists Jonas Salk and Linus Pauling, and Senator Eugene McCarthy--Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi builds on his flow theory, profiling individuals who have found ways to make flow a permanent feature of their lives, and at the same time contributed to society and culture. In this project, he hopes to show us how we can all enhance our everyday lives by better understanding a way of being that is more satisfying and more fulfilling. AUTHOR: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
|
 | Writings, 1878-1899 by Gerald E. Myers, William James
William James, a member of America's most illustrious intellectual family, is widely acclaimed as the country's foremost philosopher, the first of its psychologists, and a champion of religious pluralism. As the apostle of pragmatism, his influence on American thought is as strong now as it has ever been. James's emphasis on the creative power of faith, will, and action, his opening up of philosophy to the fresh air of ordinary experience, his fascination with alternative forms of belief and states of consciousness, and his impatience with dogmas of any kind--all make him a defender of individual experience, and earn him a place beside Emerson and Whitman as an exponent of American democratic culture. In this volume are the brilliant, engagingly written works of James's early and middle years. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy advances the liberating argument that each of us has the right to believe in hypotheses that are not susceptible to proof and that such beliefs might actually change the world. The conversational style of these essays reflects their origin in public lectures, as well as James's conviction that truth can be discovered as much in the course of everyday life as in the activities of science or of philosophical speculation. Talks to Teachers and to Students, also drawn from lectures, helped transform the emerging science of education. Here James applies his new psychology to classroom theory and conduct, especially for the primary grades. This immensely influential book has never gone out of print. It emphasizes the role in learning of instinct, play, and habit, along with the importance of engaging the voluntary interests of students. James'swarm and sympathetic nature informs his treatment of children, who can best be taught by those who respect the child's autonomy and who avoid what he calls hammering in . Psychology: Briefer Course is far more than a shortened version of his monumental Principles of Psychology. It sig AUTHOR: Gerald E. Myers, William James
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Advice
|
|
|
