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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Publisher Comments
New York Times Bestseller “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
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Used - Trade Paper
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick
One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in
years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at
home, and even in the mirror.
Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
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Drama of the Gifted Child (Rev 97 Edition)
by Alice Miller
Publisher Comments
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to... ( read more)
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.
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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)
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Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
by William Pollack
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Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference. With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NPR's Fresh Air, and featuring articles in Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, Real Boys is one of... ( read more)
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (07 Edition)
by Daniel Tammet
Publisher Comments
One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... ( read more)
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Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
by Jenny McCarthy
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If someone you love is diagnosed with autism, Louder than Words is the first book you should read.
One morning, Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evans room and found him... ( read more)
List Price $23.95
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Used - Hardcover
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by Mary Pipher
Review
"Serious and thoughtful material presented with the fluidity of good fiction — sure to appeal to parents, teachers, and anyone interested in modern American culture." Kirkus Reviews... ( read more)
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by Daniel Tammet
Publisher Comments
One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... ( read more)
List Price $24.00
Your price: $10.95
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
Publisher Comments
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world... ( read more)
List Price $12.95
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Nurture Assumption : Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (98 Edition)
by Judith Rich Harris
Publisher Comments
Harris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.... ( read more)
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Powells.com Staff Pick
The brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of the bestselling memoir
Running with Scissors) has created an entertaining and often surprising
memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome. Whether you know someone
on the autism spectrum or you're... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $17.95
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher Comments
"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it."
In this elegant and thought... ( read more)
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Optimistic Child : Proven Program To Safeguard Children From Depression and Build Lifelong Resistance (95 Edition)
by Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher Comments
Despite the increased focus on self-esteem over the past three decades, depression in children has continued to grow, now affecting a quarter of all kids today. To combat this trend, Dr. Seligman began the Penn Depression Prevention Project, the first... ( read more)
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Autism Sourcebook : Everything You Need To Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--from a Mother Whose Child Recovered (06 Edition)
by Karen Siff Exkorn
Publisher Comments
Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull... ( read more)
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Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective
by Claire Golomb
Publisher Comments
"Child Art in Context examines the process of creative expression in child art from an innovative sociocultural and historical perspective. More than 100 drawings and sculptures illustrate the genesis and development of representational skill and its... ( read more)
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Daniel Isn't Talking
by Marti Leimbach
Publisher Comments
Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes’ orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to... ( read more)
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They F*** You Up: How To Survive Family Life
by Oliver James
Synopsis
Through case histories and his own wide-ranging research, Oliver James reveals that childhood experience dominates our choice of friends and lovers, defines our interests and professional drive and even determines how prone we might be to emotional and... ( read more)
Your price: $5.95
Used - Mass Market
Families and Family Therapy
by Salvador Minuchin
Publisher Comments
No other book in the field today so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are... ( read more)
List Price $56.75
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Used - Hardcover
What It Takes To Pull Me Through
by Dave Marcus
Publisher Comments
The author reveals the intense, dramatic process that sets teens in crisis back on the right path at the Academy at Swift River, a school known for combining intensive academics, wilderness survival and group therapy. He charts a path to hope that any... ( read more)
List Price $25.00
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Used - Hardcover
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