Family & Relationships - General

Dreams, Changes and Caviar Wishes, the sequel to Mrs. Doctor, is another novel loosely based on the author's life. In this latest narrative, we find the main character, Cindy, going through life's many changes. She is a perpetual dreamer and is racing against time...

This book was created to support family members through any and all extended absences of a significant member of your family. All of the tips and suggestions have been tried and/ or tested either by our family or other families experiencing absences. Enjoy reading...

Do you open yourself up to the potential of conversations with total strangers? Are you aware of your limiting beliefs around the power of conversation? Are you ON conversation? Strong conversation skills are not only key in reducing the potential for misunderstandings or conflict,...

This book will tell you how to prepare for an LDS mission. It contains detailed instructions, extensive lists, and great advice from returned missionaries. It is a must for every young man or woman preparing to serve a mission.Author: Marie Calder RicksISBN-10: 0978857933ISBN-13: 9780978857936Publisher:...

In this simple yet enlightening guide, readers will discover when and if they should leave a relationship and how to let go and move on to regain their self-worth. (Relationships)Author: Susan RussoISBN-10: 0977393909ISBN-13: 9780977393909Publisher: Pinnacle Thought, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2005Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.50h x...

This guide brings the language of mind, heart and spirit to conflict resolution and personal or professional relationships. It includes clear explanations, many real-world examples and activities to deepen understanding and foster skills. Includes month-by-month daily practices.Author: Arlene BrownellISBN-10: 0977123219ISBN-13: 9780977123216Publisher: Arlene BrownellLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

An honest and insightful look into the liberating truth about what is required of us as women. By identifying the 7 things and dealing with them in a straightforward manner, women will come to a better understanding of the freedom that comes with knowingAuthor:...

From the opening words "Your baby is a bad baby" the storyline is laced with human frailties and woven together with humor and love. Like every hero's journey, this child's life begins in crisis and is earmarked for destiny with a number of fated...

Peaks and Valleys is a memoir that shares the joys and challenges of Diane How's life. The true stories are a personal journey and search for life's meanings.Author: Diane M. HowISBN-10: 0967490170ISBN-13: 9780967490175Publisher: Ngob Association, IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2012Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

"PeopleSmart" offers powerful techniques for turning every encounter into a mutual win. Whether you want to be better at selling or socializing ... managing or motivating ... producing or parenting ... winning or wooing, this book has the answers.Author: Tony AlessandraISBN-10: 0962516112ISBN-13: 9780962516115Publisher: Keynote...

Modern-day life and our highly stressed, risk-averse society has led to a medicalised, fearful model of childbirth, one that has stripped the process of its wondrous magic. In this groundbreaking book, consultant obstetrician Dr Amali Lokugamage discusses ways in which every woman can aim...

Celebrating The Seasons follows the seasons of Mother Earth. This wonderful treasury of stories enthuses children with the beauty of nature, engages them in creative activities and offers soul food for the imagination. Helen Royall describes vividly the ancient festivals of Samhaine, Imbolc, Beltaine...

"The Silent Female Scream" teaches "how to believe that as a woman you have the right to be heard, valued and respected, and to know that anything less is just not okay." Through case studies and discussion, the author exposes that women's sense of...

The impact of anorexia nervosa on families can be devastating. Daniel Becker combines the innocent recollections of his childhood with the insightful observations of a mature adult in this story of his mother's 30-year obsession with food and her eventual death from anorexia nervosa....

Incorporating all the latest information, this book will bolster your own instincts, answer your questions, and lay safely to rest any lingering doubts about a vegetarian regimen for infants.Author: Sharon K. Yntema, Christine BeardISBN-10: 0935526633ISBN-13: 9780935526639Publisher: McBooks PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1999Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.32h...

Could pregnancy and delivery really be exciting and fun? Does there have to be misery, problems and pain? According to the Bible, God has an exciting plan for us during childbirth. In this book you will discover simple truths that will challenge and motivate...

Set in the 1940s, Elaine Soloway's memoir takes its title from the street that Studs Terkel exalts in his classic book, "Division Street: America" and from the pet name her father gave her. Soloway lived in a three-room flat above her family's grocery store....

In How To Fight A Cold. . . And Win , author David Harp explains how a revolutionary new product, Cold-Eeze lozenges, can be used safely by anyone to fight the common cold. Cold-Eeze lozenges contain electrically charged zinc which helps end colds sooner....

In an effort to reconstruct the 'village' that once helped raise the children of the African American community, this inspiring call to arms examines several issues facing black families of today, including divorce, parenting, fatherlessness, teen pregnancy, and dating. Driven by the 66 percent...

From The Introduction by Lawrence Barkan: I promise that after reading this book you will be able to resolve your conflicts. I can make that promise because I know that resolving your conflicts is completely within your control. Does that surprise you? You've probably...

More and more couples are choosing not to have children. While much attention has been paid to this trend from a woman's point of view, men are often seen as having a secondary role in this choice, as ready to accept whatever their partners...

Sharing Birth is excellent. . . .There isn't a pregnant father anywhere who would not benefit from reading, or even just skimming, this book. All you pregnant mothers out there, don't wait for your husband to discover, purchase, and read this book. Get it...

Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience....

For the first time, a migraine sufferer presents-with the close guidance of a renowned medical specialist-a comprehensive, sympathetic, up-to-date, and understandable survey of this painful and life-disrupting disorder and the measures you can take to break its iron grip. In Managing Your Migraine, Susan...

This special book is for every woman who has ever been pregnant, or is now experiencing her first pregnancy, as well as all those hoping to better understand pregnancy's powerful feelings and events-the joy, the pain, the wonder, the bonding, the miracle of new...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the most common of all digestive disorders, is the leading cause of recurrent abdominal pain. This expanded edition sums up the latest research and offers new information on treatments and on the relationship of anxiety disorders to IBS. The benchmark...

Their effect on cancer, inflammation and more.Author: Muhammed Majeed, Vladimir Badmaev, Frank MurrayISBN-10: 0879837683ISBN-13: 9780879837686Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 48Format: SpiralWeight: 0.05lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.20d

Teach children ages birth through two with these 300 activities focused on the incremental development of young children. Observe what children are already doing, then give them varied opportunities to develop at their own pace. Simple Steps outlines a typical developmental sequence, offering children...

Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn't matter. Yet the ways we talk and dress, our interactions with authority figures, the degree of trust we place in strangers, our religious beliefs, our...

This book provides detailed information about various illnesses and how they can be prevented or cured through the use of anti-oxidants.Author: James F. BalchISBN-10: 0871318946ISBN-13: 9780871318947Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/1999Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Author: Michael P. Farrell, Stanley RosenbergISBN-10: 0865690626ISBN-13: 9780865690622Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/1981Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.16h x 5.94w x 0.76d

Author: Che Rawick, Jules RawickISBN-10: 0837163048ISBN-13: 9780837163048Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1972Pages: 1Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.01lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.44d

Author: Che Rawick, Jules RawickISBN-10: 0837163005ISBN-13: 9780837163000Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/1972Pages: 704Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.50d

Mothering small children is exhausting and mind-numbing work. Just finding time to get dressed each day can be a challenge. So how can you possibly find time for God? Your need for God may be greatest at this time of life more than any...

Forgiving can be one of the hardest things you'll ever do. Perhaps you sense deep down that it will be good for you and others to put the past in the past. But sometimes no matter what you do, you just can't seem to...

One of the 1998 Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the YearNearly half of adults today are unmarried. But most churches emphasize marriage and family, leaving many Christian singles feeling marginalized or alienated. Though they look to Jesus and Paul as role...

In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the...

A leading rabbinic authority summarizes the Jewish view of marriage and explores the customs, practices, and symbols of the traditional wedding ceremony. Jewish law is also applied to such topics as premarital sex, homosexuality, and intermarriage.Author: Maurice LammISBN-10: 0824604806ISBN-13: 9780824604806Publisher: Jonathan David Co., IncLanguage:...

What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva...

In Families in War and Peace Sarah C. Chambers places gender analysis and family politics at the center of Chile's struggle for independence and its subsequent state building. Linking the experiences of both prominent and more humble families to Chile's political and legal history,...

In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan weaves together threads of stories and common experiences to create a meditation on family life. She explores the familiar rituals, the shared dreams, and the guarded secrets that tie family together...

Darkroom: A Family Exposure is Jill Christman's gripping, funny, and wise account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, accidental death, and psychological trauma, Christman's poignant memoir is much more than a...

Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism--the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997--Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status...

The evolution of the idea of hospitality can be traced alongside the development of Western civilization. Etymologically, the host is the "master," but this identity is established through expropriation and loss--the best host is the one who gives the most, ultimately relinquishing what defines...

Middletown Families was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Fifty years after publication of Robert and Helen Lloyd's classic studies, Middletown (1929)...

A dialogue between developmental research and continental philosophy that illuminates how children experience the world. The Child in the World builds a bridge between continental philosophers, who tend to overlook child existence, and developmental psychologists, who often fail to consider the philosophical assumptions underlying...

Popular interest in bullshit -- and its near relative, truthiness -- is at an all-time high, but the subject has a rich philosophical history, with Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant all weighing in on the matter. Here, contemporary philosophers reflect on bullshit from epistemological,...

Struggles to define the soul of America roil the nation's politics. Debates over the roles of gays, lesbians, women, immigrants, racial and religious minorities, and disputes over reproductive and abortion rights serve as rallying points for significant electoral groups and their representatives in government....

An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post-World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited.Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he...

Names, like people, have lives of their own, which is why Lloyd Bockstruck's new book about the serendipity and life's choices that can alter our family names is must-reading for every researcher. Mr. Bockstruck, one of America's foremost genealogists and the former genealogy librarian...