ilość książek w kategorii: 1844
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Before Their Time
ISBN: 9781566396554 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Their Time presents adult children survivors' (defined as 18 or above at the time of the parent's death) accounts of their loss, grief and resolution following a parent's suicide. In one section, the book offers the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of mothers; in another, the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of fathers. In a third section, four siblings reflect on the shared loss of their mother.
Before Their Time presents adult children survivors' (defined as 18 or above at the time of the parent's death) accounts of their loss, grief and reso...
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122,40 |
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The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent
ISBN: 9781572307292 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that way. Empathic guidance from an expert who's been there can help. Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother--interwoven with no-nonsense advice--The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. The author urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they're able to make and emphasizes the need for clear...
Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that w...
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63,62 |
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Singing Mother Home: A Psychologist's Journey Through Anticipatory Grief
ISBN: 9781574411621 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when an expert on grief is faced with the slow decline of her beloved mother? Like "A Grief Observed" by C. S. Lewis, "Singing Mother Home" offers the reader an inside look at the struggles of someone who is an "expert" in coping with loss. Donna S. Davenport was forced to rethink the traditional academic approach to the process, which implied that the goal of grief resolution was to end the attachment to the loved one. Instead, she embarked on a personal exploration of her own anticipatory grief.
This intimate narrative forms the core of her book. It is emotionally... What happens when an expert on grief is faced with the slow decline of her beloved mother? Like "A Grief Observed" by C. S. Lewis, "Singing Mother Hom...
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107,70 |
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My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare
ISBN: 9781592132386 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After her mother's double hip fracture, the author immersed herself in identifying and coordinating the services and professionals needed to provide critical care for an elderly person. This work features her day-to-day observations as her mother's condition worsened, then improved only to worsen again.
After her mother's double hip fracture, the author immersed herself in identifying and coordinating the services and professionals needed to provide c...
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127,29 |
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The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent
ISBN: 9781593852955 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that way. Empathic guidance from an expert who's been there can help. Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother--interwoven with no-nonsense advice--The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. The author urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they're able to make and emphasizes the need for clear...
Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that w...
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225,25 |
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
ISBN: 9781594481925 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Look out for McBride's new book, Five-Carat Soul From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. The incredible modern classic that launched James McBride's literary career. Over two years on The New York Times bestseller list Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride,...
Look out for McBride's new book, Five-Carat Soul From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good L...
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65,51 |
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The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent
ISBN: 9780826515865 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal
In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges of caring for her father-transferring his health insurance, struggling with a wheelchair van, managing adult diapers, or playing in the fictions of dementia. From perplexed to poignant to funny, the... Named a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal
In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular represe... |
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437,62 |
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Teenagers: Biblical Wisdom for Parents
ISBN: 9781844743544 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,50 |
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A New Attitude for Me
ISBN: 9781438999197 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,10 |
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Male Stripper: She stripped everything from him except his soul.
ISBN: 9781438990446 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about a man who was never satisfied with his marriage relationships, who always looked for, what he thought was a better woman. What he found was far from what he had. In fact she turned out to be a woman with a broken heart full of hurt, anger and revenge, more like the woman from hell. He looks for love.Instead he gets an experience of a life time. This woman strips him of everything that makes him a man. He tries to stay committed to the marriage, because he loves her, and this is his third marriage. And failure is not acceptable.But she strips everything from him except his...
This book is about a man who was never satisfied with his marriage relationships, who always looked for, what he thought was a better woman. What he f...
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50,40 |
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In Search of Liberation
ISBN: 9781438997179 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Impact of the Case Model of Identity Theft Training on Influencing Prevention Behaviors in Senior Citizens
ISBN: 9781449051587 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,28 |
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The DreamWeaver
ISBN: 9781615796342 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,02 |
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Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent
ISBN: 9781583333952 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From bestselling author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter caring for her father through his final years of life
After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring -inherited- her father-Pop- and set off on an all-consuming five-year mission to make his days as rich and comfortable as possible. This is their story, overflowing with humor, insight, and love. In beautifully crafted vignettes, spring brings their deepening relationship to life-both the joy and the imposition, the happiness and the heartaches.... From bestselling author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter caring...
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92,48 |
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The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
ISBN: 9780547248035 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting--and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity.Harvard psychologist RichardWeissbourd argues incisively that parents--not peers, not television--are the primary shapers of their children's moral lives. And yet, it is parents' lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children's development. A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting--and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the grea... |
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69,17 |
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Raising Brandon: Creating a Path to Independence for Your Adult Kid with Autism & Special Needs
ISBN: 9780982137703 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Whether you are just starting out with a newborn and you sense something is wrong, or you have an adult child with autism or special needs and you do not know what to do, Raising Brandon will guide you to the answers you have been looking for."--Publisher.
"Whether you are just starting out with a newborn and you sense something is wrong, or you have an adult child with autism or special needs and you do...
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68,59 |
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Bureau Publication (United States. Children's Bureau). No. 130, 1924
ISBN: 9781144022516 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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77,47 |
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Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
ISBN: 9781451624137 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does your mother call you in a panic whenever there's a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it's her duty to alert you to every health story on the news? Have you ever been briefly out of touch with your mother only to find she's phoned everyone short of the National Guard to track you down -- or, just maybe, are you that mother? Take comfort in knowing you're not alone, as Amy Borkowsky shares more than a decade's worth of maddening phone messages from her hilariously overprotective mom. Based on the hit CD of the same name, Amy's Answering Machine features actual...
Does your mother call you in a panic whenever there's a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it's her duty to alert you to every health...
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65,47 |
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An Appalachian Mother's Love
ISBN: 9781452061399 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I will get him a squirrel gun" A few days went by and one morning I got up out of bed before Mom and Dad did. I walked into the living room and quietly sat down. I could hear Mom and Dad talking in their bedroom. I heard Mom say to Dad, "You could buy Tony a good shot gun if you would do it." I heard Dad say back to Mom, "Now I just don't have the money." Mom told him, "It's a sin to lie." Dad said to her, "Well, you go buy him a gun if you can." Then Mom told him. 'I will get him a squirrel gun if it harelips old Billy Hell, you just wait and see if I don't."
"I will get him a squirrel gun" A few days went by and one morning I got up out of bed before Mom and Dad did. I walked into the living room and quiet...
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89,38 |
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An Appalachian Mother's Love
ISBN: 9781452061405 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I will get him a squirrel gun" A few days went by and one morning I got up out of bed before Mom and Dad did. I walked into the living room and quietly sat down. I could hear Mom and Dad talking in their bedroom. I heard Mom say to Dad, "You could buy Tony a good shot gun if you would do it." I heard Dad say back to Mom, "Now I just don't have the money." Mom told him, "It's a sin to lie." Dad said to her, "Well, you go buy him a gun if you can." Then Mom told him. 'I will get him a squirrel gun if it harelips old Billy Hell, you just wait and see if I don't."
"I will get him a squirrel gun" A few days went by and one morning I got up out of bed before Mom and Dad did. I walked into the living room and quiet...
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119,19 |