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The Self-Sabotage Cycle: Why We Repeat Behaviors That Create Hardships and Ruin Relationships

The Self-Sabotage Cycle: Why We Repeat Behaviors That Create Hardships and Ruin Relationships


Patricia Hermes, Stanley Rosner



Review "Rosner, a clinical psychologist, and Hermes, an author, discuss the cycle of self-destruction that affects some people in ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Men & Women - 2000 publication

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Men & Women - 2000 publication


Lillian J. Glass



Why is it that some women expect men to "just know" what they want? Or, why is it that some men find it difficult to express thei...
Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick

Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick


Noel T. Boaz



Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life ...
Family Fantasies and Community Space

Family Fantasies and Community Space


Stuart Aitken



Family Fantasies and Community Space...
Mothering Without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage

Mothering Without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage


Becky Thompson



From Publishers Weekly Sociologist Thompson, whose previous research explored the connections between childhood abuse and eating...
My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden


Nancy Friday



Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never...
Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' RIghts

Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' RIghts


Mary L. Shanley



From Publishers Weekly In this impressive study of family law's uneasiness with custody rights, Shanley (Feminism, Marriage and ...
Families in Asia: Home and Kin

Families in Asia: Home and Kin


Stella R. Quah



Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey dat...
Deductive Reasoning and Strategies

Deductive Reasoning and Strategies




This book brings together both theoretical and empirical research directed toward the role of strategies in deductive reasoning. I...
Alternative Health Care

Alternative Health Care


Michael Goldstein



In November of 1998 The Journal of the American Medical Association devoted an entire issue to alternative medicine for the first ...
Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century

Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century


Sarah M. S. Pearsall



The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families a...
The Bowel Book: A Self-Help Guide for Sufferers

The Bowel Book: A Self-Help Guide for Sufferers


Michael Levitt



It seems nowadays that we are happy to discuss almost every aspect of our health, and reveal to doctors, pyschologists, phone-in h...
Surviving Post-Natal Depression: At Home, No One Hears You Scream

Surviving Post-Natal Depression: At Home, No One Hears You Scream


Cara Aiken



Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experienced post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to s...
Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier

Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier


Shelley Peterman Schwarz



Being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can be distressing, and adjusting to the effects of the disease is often difficult. This ...
Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self

Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self


Dennis P. Sugrue, Sallie Foley, Sally A. Kope



Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self...
Marijuana as Medicine: The Science Beyond the Controversy

Marijuana as Medicine: The Science Beyond the Controversy


Alison Mack, Janet Joy



Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease thei...
Food Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety

Food Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety


Morton Satin



Food Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety...
Celebrating the Single Life: Keys to Successful Living on Your Own

Celebrating the Single Life: Keys to Successful Living on Your Own


David Yount



Celebrating the Single Life: Keys to Successful Living on Your Own...
Natural Eye Care: An Encyclopedia

Natural Eye Care: An Encyclopedia


Glenn Swartwout, Marc Grossman



Do you have or know someone who has a vision problem? Nearly all of us can answer "yes". The eye care business is a billion doll...
Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived

Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived


Corey L. M. Keyes, Jonathan Haidt



Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA. Text provides the application of scientific analyses to study the 'good' life. Articles are taken from t...
The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America

The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America


Kathleen Gerson



From Publishers Weekly Gerson (No Man's Land), a sociology professor at New York University, refers to those adults born after t...
9 Elements of Family Business Success: A Proven Formula for Improving Leadership

9 Elements of Family Business Success: A Proven Formula for Improving Leadership


Allen Fishman



Running a family business is like running any other business--with the addition of many extra challenges. A family-owned enterpris...
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth: Book 1

Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth: Book 1


Peter Kelder



Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies a secret that would have saved Ponce de Leon from ...
Structure of Matter An Introductory Course with Problems and Solutions

Structure of Matter An Introductory Course with Problems and Solutions




Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decisi...
Play or Be Played: What Every Female Should Know About Men, Dating, and..

Play or Be Played: What Every Female Should Know About Men, Dating, and..


Tariq K-Flex Nasheed



Got Game? It's a fact. Every woman needs game. Take Oprah, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Beyoncé Knowles. All three of these wome...
Clothes: A Very First Picture Book

Clothes: A Very First Picture Book


Nicola Tuxworth



Children dress up and try on all different sorts of clothes in the VERY FIRST PICTURE BOOKS series. With full colour photographs. ...
VHDL Coding and Logic Synthesis with Synopsys

VHDL Coding and Logic Synthesis with Synopsys


Weng Fook Lee



From Library Journal Written by associates of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions who are also board members of the Epilepsy ...
Angiography and Plaque Imaging Advanced Segmentation Techniques

Angiography and Plaque Imaging Advanced Segmentation Techniques


Muhammad Asim Khan



Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people(over 1 million sufferers in the USA a...
Marriage, family, and relationships: a cross-cultural encyclopedia

Marriage, family, and relationships: a cross-cultural encyclopedia


Gwen J. Broude



From Library Journal Broude (psychology, Vassar) has produced a work that is more anthropological than psychological in nature, ...
Your Body. How It Works. Human Development

Your Body. How It Works. Human Development


Cooley, Denton A., Ted Zerucha



Your Body. How It Works. Human Development...