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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 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith 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) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest by Holly A Smith Publisher Comments Twenty years ago, Holly Smith didn't know how drastically her life would change when she joined the Sexual Abuse Team in Boulder, Colorado. What she first considered a temporary job became a gut-wrenching, but ultimately satisfying quest that touched... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $1.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child by Alissa Quart Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed author Alissa Quart breaks the news about an issue that will be of urgent concern to parents and educators as well as adult readers with gifted pasts: the dilemma of the gifted child. While studies show that children who are superior... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--From a Mother Whose Child Recovered 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) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt Publisher Comments A death, a long-term illness, a divorce, or even a family move is an occasion of despair and grief for a child. Jarratt explains how an adult can provide the necessary support for helping a child cope. Includes Jarratt's new insights into loss-induced... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr Morse Publisher Comments Although violent behavior has typically been traced to adolescence, "Ghosts from the Nursery" points to the cradle years as the genesis of this problem.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Child Psychology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self 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) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D. Dan Kindlon Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Family Therapy Techniques by Salvador Minuchin Publisher Comments A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $26.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive by Sally Ozonoff Publisher Comments This hopeful, compassionate guide shows parents how to work with their child s unique impairments and capabilities to help him or her learn to engage more fully with the world and live as self-sufficiently as possible. From leading experts in the field... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children (Library of Contemporary Thought) by Jonathan Kellerman Publisher Comments discusses the legal and psychological ramifications of treating such children as adult criminals. He explores the "nature v. nurture" theory and tackles, with surprising results, the popular idea that violence in the media is to blame. Kellerman then... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reweaving the Family Tapestry: A Multigenerational Approach to Families by Fredda Herz Brown Book News Annotation Evolving out of work at the Family Institute of Westchester (Mount Vernon, NY), this volume provides a basic multigenerational framework for working with families. This model, applicable with individuals and couples, as well as families, stresses the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks; Revised Edition by Piaget And Singer Publisher Comments Jean Piaget is arguably the most important figure of our century in the field of child psychology. In more than six decades of studying and working with children, he brilliantly and insightfully charted the stages of a child's intellectual maturation... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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