At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone--your boss, a co-worker, a customer, your spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome? In "The Small Big," thr[...]
At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request, proposal or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome?
In The[...]
The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for [...]
Never Highlight a Book Again! Just the FACTS101 study guides give the student the textbook outlines, highlights, practice quizzes and optional access to the full practice tests for their textbook.[...]
Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists ha[...]
Ever wonder how easy life would be if you didn't get suffocated with anxiety, your heart didn't pound in your chest, and your thoughts didn't race a mile a minute every time you had to step onto a plane? Think you have no control over your fear of flying? Think again. "Mindfulness Meditations for th[...]
Never Highlight a Book Again! Just the FACTS101 study guides give the student the textbook outlines, highlights, practice quizzes and optional access to the full practice tests for their textbook.[...]
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing it[...]
Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loose[...]
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotion and problem solving. Although most widely studied in humans, intelligent behavior has been observed in animals and plants. No consensus [...]
Presents the fundamentals of meditating in the Buddhist tradition, with a gift-boxed set that includes two CDs with guided meditations, as well as a 229-page workbook and 12 study cards.[...]
A practical volume that focuses on the unique relationship between language difficulties and students with disabilities; emphasizes the description and acquisition of all five components of language - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.[...]
In" Seeking the Heart of Wisdom " Goldstein and Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of understanding our bodies, our minds, and our lives, of seeing clearly the true nature of experi[...]
The second of two volumes, Thymosins in Health and Disease II, continues the exploration of the rapidly expanding area of research in thymosins--a family of proteins, with a broad set of biological properties and great clinical potential.[...]
This compelling photographic history examines the war in its entirety - from Its causes and protagonists to its strategies, weapons, and battles. Goldstein and Maihafer have collected more than 450 vivid photographs, many never before seen by the general public. The Korean War remembers the experien[...]