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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Light His Fire: How to Keep Your Man Passionately and Hopelessly in Love with YouHave you given up on love in a marriage gone stale? Are you seeking commitment in a world of footloose men? Whether you're married, engaged, or single and looking, Ellen Kreidman's 7-step guide shows you how to have a love affair with the man...
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Bright Minds, Poor Grades: Understanding and Motivating Your Underachieving ChildFor any parent who has ever been told, your child isn't performing up to his or her potential, this book has the answer. Renowned clinical psychologist Michael Whitley, Ph.D. offers a proven ten-step program to motivate underachieving children. This easy-to follow book identifies the...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding (Revised Edition): Completely Revised and Updated Third EditionTHE BREASTFEEDING BOOK YOUR DOCTOR RECOMMENDS Why is breastfeeding the optimal choice? What happens when my maternity leave is over? What's the safest way to store pumped milk? The American Academy of Pediatrics answers these questions and many more in this invaluable resource to...
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It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single"Why am I still single?" If you're single and searching, there's no end to other people's explanations, excuses, and criticism explaining why you haven't found a partner: "You're too picky. Just find a good-enough guy and you'll be fine." "You're too desperate. If men...
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Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy AttachmentIn this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through the intricate web of neuronal processes, hormones, and chemicals that drive--and sometimes thwart--our caregiving impulses, uncovering the mysteries of...
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Just Say Know: Talking with Kids about Drugs and AlcoholAll of our children deserve the chance to be as bright, successful, and healthy as they can be. But our kids are threatened by the wide availability of alcohol and other drugs in our society. Everyone agrees that the best protection is education, but...
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Breaking the Patterns of DepressionTwenty to thirty million Americans suffer from some form of diagnosable depression, and their ranks are growing. Psychologist Michael D. Yapko explains that in order to find relief, more than the current episode of depression must be examined. In Breaking the Patterns of Depression,...
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Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the HealedBased on his extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, a bestselling author offers unique support to anyone facing the dying process. This book integrates death into the context of life with compassion, skill, and hope. Capturing the range of emotions and challenges that...
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private LifeIs it ever all right to lie? A philosopher looks at lying and deception in public and private life--in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family and between friends.Lying is a penetrating and thoughtful examination of one of the most pervasive yet little...
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Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started...
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth MotherGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek and her ex-boyfriend begin an exhaustive search for...
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Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, Adhd, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A DisordersA comprehensive program that targets all four of the 4-A epidemics: autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergies "An easy-to-read commonsense guide to beneficial biomedical treatments."--Temple Grandin Doctors have generally overlooked the connections among the 4-A disorders. For years the medical establishment has considered autism medically...
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I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All AdultsWhy does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is...
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Stereotyping: The Politics of RepresentationStereotyping stands in need of serious re-appraisal. This book provides a critical assessment of the concept and its use in the social sciences, considering its theoretical basis and historical development and linking these closely to the concept of the Other. As the first sustained...
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I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."--POPSUGAR "By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."--Kirkus "Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery and sobriety in imperfect and unconventional...
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Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy YearsA comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman. Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second...
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Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the Rie(tm) WayRaise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach. Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. Baby Knows Best is based...
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The First Years of ForeverNearly half of all serious marital problems develop in the first two years of marriage; yet on the average, couples who seek counseling for the first time have already been married seven years. This five-years counseling gap allows more than enough time for the...
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How to Have Your Life Not Suck: Becoming Today Who You Want to Be TomorrowDo you ever just want someone to help you figure life out--to tell you how to win at work, what guys to stay away from, and what jeans rock your body shape? This book is the perfect cocktail of sass and down-to-earth guidance to...
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Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say NoBoundaries with Kids will help parents: Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems Set boundaries and establish consequences with kids Get out of the "nagging" trap Stop controlling their kids--and instead help their children develop self-control Apply the ten laws of boundaries to...
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