Family & Relationships
Explore a diverse selection of relationship and family books, including top titles on communication in relationships, love, marriage, and couples.
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Nanny Knows Best: The History of the British NannyFrom the popular Mary Poppins to the controversial Supernanny, the history of the British Nanny is revealed through fascinating personal storiesNot quite part of the family and definitely an employee; idealized or demonized, the nanny has had a difficult role in family life over...
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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological ExplanationNeues Buch der preisgekrönten Soziologin Eva Illouez über die moderne Liebe, das der Frage nachgeht, warum Liebe so schmerzhaft, die Suche nach Liebe so beschwerlich und Liebe oft so enttäuschend ist, und als Antwort ein radikal neues Beziehungsmodell postuliert.Author: Eva IllouzPublisher: Polity PressPublished: 09/23/2013Pages:...
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The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our DaughtersA revolutionary approach to raising girls that combines groundbreaking research with practical parenting advice.In The Wonder of Girls, as in its predecessor, The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian presents radical and enlightening views of parenting. Using as his springboard up-to-date scientific research on female...
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Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their SpiritsDo you dread parent-teacher conferences? Does your child really know how to push your hot button? Has your child been labeled "defiant" or "rebellious"? Here are proven strategies that have helped millions to tame--not break--a spirited child. Parents are often faced with scary labels...
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Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female BullyingThe only book with a program that is proven to solve the problem of female bullying, a controversial issue first exposed in the bestselling Reviving Ophelia.Stop the Hurting Mary Pipher's bestselling Reviving Ophelia triggered widespread interest in the culture of preteen and teenage girls...
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The Grandmother Book: A Book about You for Your GrandchildShare with your grandchild the exciting, emotional, amusing, embarrassing, and interesting moments of your life with the "story of you." For the fifteen million grandmothers who are keepers of family history and memories, The Grandmother Book is a lively and timely way to record...
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Igniting Intimacy: Sex Magic Rituals for Radical Living & LovingA sex magic playbook for personal, relational, and planetary transformationMaster the art of sex magic and forge radical new relationships with yourself, your beloveds, our planet, and life itself. This groundbreaking book invites you to develop intimacies that are as creative as they are...
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Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and PersonsFrom "a genuine American Dostoevsky" (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal. When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many...
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It's All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children's HairWhat are you going to do with your children's hair? Combing your daughter's hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there's a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black...
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Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a FamilyTo fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of "Bringing Up Ben & Birdy," a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while...
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The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship: How to Fall in Love Again--And Stay ThereThis straightforward guide explains how Chemistry, Respect, Enjoyment, Acceptance, Trust, and Empathy are the pillars that support a strong, successful relationship-and how couples can repair those pillars, protect them against the long-term wear and tear of stress, boredom, and bickering, and build a lasting,...
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Adoption Healing... a path to recovery Articles, etc.This addition to the Adoption Healing series is a compilation of all the articles that I have been asked to write in the last year, These articles address specific issues faced by adoptees and mothers of adoption loss. These articles suggest additional exercises and...
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The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants, and the Drama of Early AttachmentThe world-renowned pediatrician, T. Berry Brazelton, and Bertrand G. Cramer, psychoanalyst and pioneer in infant psychiatry, have combined lifetimes of research and practice to write the definitive work on early parent/child relationships. Praised and welcomed by all those who work with new parents--pediatricians, nurses,...
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Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are GoneThe word orphan may make us think of a child--but even self-sufficient adults can feel the pain of orphanhood when their parents are suddenly gone. Complicating the natural mourning process is the fact that this loss often occurs in our thirties, forties, or fifties--as...
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Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer GeeksThe reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Jordynn Jack suggests the proliferating number of discussions point to autism as a rhetorical phenomenon that engenders attempts to...
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The Rules (TM) Dating JournalThe Rules Dating Journal gives Rules followers a perfect place to record every dating move. Using a week-at-a-glance format, it includes one Rule tip, reminder, or piece of advice per week to help keep women on track.Author: Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider, &. Schneider Fein...
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How to Raise a Brighter ChildTHE LATEST STUDIES PROVE SOONER IS SMARTER * How much is a child capable of learning before the age of six? * What happens to a child's brain during the preschool years when the body is growing so rapidly? * How can working parents...
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The Pre Pregnancy PlannerMuch has been written about preparation for childbirth. Josleen Wilson's guide is unique in covering the preceding step -- preparation for pregnancy itself. Covering a wide range of concerns that are best resolved before conception, Wilson discusses parenthood decisions, diet and exercise, financial and...
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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for SelfLike Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.Author: David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, Robin Marantz HenigPublisher:...
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Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern AmericaIt is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem...
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