ilość książek w kategorii: 1776
Donald's Story: One Family's Journey Through the Tangled Darkness of Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9781463446949 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,11 zł |
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition
ISBN: 9780807007457 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? There's no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has severely compromised the path to adulthood for young people in their twenties and thirties. And there's no end in sight. Families are hunkering down, expanding the reach of their households to envelop economically vulnerable young adults. Acclaimed sociologist...
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? There's no question that globali...
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76,92 zł |
Help! I Can't Stop Texting: The Hidden Dangers of Text Messaging
ISBN: 9781426919138 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DO NOT TEXT Message too much. Why? A psychologist at a College in London studied 1,000 adults and concluded that heavy text messaging and emailing caused impaired mental abilities even more than smoking marijuana. The psychologist alleged that the reduction was equivalent to 10 IQ points, and referred to the obsessions as "info mania." YOU CAN set time limits for yourself; turn your phone off during certain times of the day. Give yourself specific times to check and/or reply to your messages, and set alarms for yourself. Once the author determined that she needed to learn as much as possible...
DO NOT TEXT Message too much. Why? A psychologist at a College in London studied 1,000 adults and concluded that heavy text messaging and emailing cau...
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46,24 zł |
The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
ISBN: 9781426990007 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents. Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents. The...
This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of ...
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90,98 zł |
The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am
ISBN: 9781426990014 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents. Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents. The...
This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of ...
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141,83 zł |
The Face of Dementia: Watching Mom Disappear
ISBN: 9781452093949 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his is a wonderful true story about one family's life as they grew up and grew old. It was filled with love, laughter, trials, and the challenges that life gives. The biggest challenge came when she found herself with both parents in various stages of dementia. At times she felt helpless, but also knew that it was up to her to attempt to fulfill their needs, wants and desires. Time moved on and her father passed away, leaving her with her mom to care for. What would she do? What did she do? Most important, what will you do? his is a wonderful true story about one family's life as they grew up and grew old. It was filled with love, laughter, trials, and the challenges t... |
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81,31 zł |
The Face of Dementia: Watching Mom Disappear
ISBN: 9781452093956 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his is a wonderful true story about one family's life as they grew up and grew old. It was filled with love, laughter, trials, and the challenges that life gives. The biggest challenge came when she found herself with both parents in various stages of dementia. At times she felt helpless, but also knew that it was up to her to attempt to fulfill their needs, wants and desires. Time moved on and her father passed away, leaving her with her mom to care for. What would she do? What did she do? Most important, what will you do? his is a wonderful true story about one family's life as they grew up and grew old. It was filled with love, laughter, trials, and the challenges t... |
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127,08 zł |
Shakespeare's (?) Edward VIII
ISBN: 9781456773052 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,59 zł |
My Reluctant Journey: A Memoir of a Gay Dad
ISBN: 9781467880923 / Angielski / Miękka / 764 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,55 zł |
Riding Fury Home
ISBN: 9781580054324 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be many years before she learned the secret of her mother s anguish: her love affair with another married woman, and the psychiatric treatment aimed at curing her of her lesbianism.
Riding Fury Home spans forty years of the intense, complex relationship between Chana and her motherthe trauma of their early... In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger. The gun jammed and she wa...
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155,81 zł |
The Crowded Nest Syndrome: Surviving the Return of Adult Children
ISBN: 9780972672702 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,82 zł |
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies
ISBN: 9781250013866 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Best Friends, Occasional Enemies, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter, Francesca Serritella, are the best of friends--99.9% of the time. They're number one on each other's speed dial and they tell each other everything--well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes--except one very special green jacket, which almost caused a catfight. In other words, they're just like every mother and daughter in the world. Best friends and occasional enemies. Now they're dishing about it all: their lives, their relationship, and their carb... In Best Friends, Occasional Enemies, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter, Francesca Serritella, are th... |
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81,15 zł |
Before I Sleep: A Memoir of Travel and Reconciliation
ISBN: 9780982818411 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Absent for three decades, Thurmond's birth father phones from his death bed, offering his son a chance for reconciliation. Recounting life-shaping events and the insights they yield, "Before I Sleep" brings Thurmond's physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey vividly to life.
Absent for three decades, Thurmond's birth father phones from his death bed, offering his son a chance for reconciliation. Recounting life-shaping eve...
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90,70 zł |
Losing Everything
ISBN: 9780743294348 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Losing Everything," his first book of nonfiction, acclaimed novelist David Lozell Martin tells his wildest, most outlandish story yet -- his own.
One evening in the mountainous forest of his isolated West Virginia farmhouse, Martin became disoriented when searching for a horse who had wandered off the property. Wading through the dark and guiding his horse with a belt around its neck, Martin felt as though every step was taking him deeper into the mountains. Instead, he unknowingly spent the night walking in a wide circle that brought him back to where he started. This quickly became... In "Losing Everything," his first book of nonfiction, acclaimed novelist David Lozell Martin tells his wildest, most outlandish story yet -- his own. ...
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64,06 zł |
What's a Mother (In-Law) to Do?: 5 Essential Steps to Building a Loving Relationshi
ISBN: 9781451655230 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just about everyone has heard a terrible joke or a horror story about someone else's mother-in-law. Blending two families together often creates new and uncomfortable dynamics that will take some time to get used to, and sometimes mothers-in-law behave badly during these transitions. But these don't need to be wildly uncomfortable transitions, and you don't need to become the butt of everyone's jokes.
With What's a Mother (In Law) to Do?, author Jane Angelich (a mother-in-law herself) teaches readers how to become the mother-in-law they've always wished they had. Rich with... Just about everyone has heard a terrible joke or a horror story about someone else's mother-in-law. Blending two families together often creates new a...
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51,24 zł |
Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic: 100 Lessons to Understand How Autistic People See Life
ISBN: 9781933750293 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One percent of the population of children in the U.S. aged 3-17 have an autism spectrum disorder... One in 50 newborns will be born with an autism spectrum disorder... Only 56% of students with autism finish high school... One million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder... My name is Trevor Pacelli. I was diagnosed with Autism at age 5. I am the first in my extended family to have autism. Growing up autistic has been difficult not only for me but for my parents and my sister. We've all had to learn about autism and how to maintain a peaceful household. I deeply want other families...
One percent of the population of children in the U.S. aged 3-17 have an autism spectrum disorder... One in 50 newborns will be born with an autism spe...
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59,45 zł |
Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
ISBN: 9780061688423 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the "best mother-daughter memoir," while the New York Times Book Review praised it as, "a testament to the power of the love." The Fontaines are back with Have Mother, Will Travel, a beautiful, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring book that brilliantly captures the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter. Seen within the context of an unforgettable round-the-world adventure, the emotional milestones reached and the new understandings... Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the "best mother-daughter memoi... |
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76,88 zł |
I See Movies in My Head
ISBN: 9781466937369 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,04 zł |
Mom & Me & Mom
ISBN: 9781400066117 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf - A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship with her mother
The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf - A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship...
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111,11 zł |
Leaving the Hall Light On
ISBN: 9780982579480 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A moving read of tragedy, trying to prevent it, and coping with life after." - Midwest Book Review "Moving, intimate and very inspiring." - Mark Shelmerdine, CEO, Jeffers Press "Poetically visceral, emotionally honest. I will be a better, more empathic psychiatrist, and a better person and friend after reading this extraordinary memoir." - Irvin D. Godofsky, M.D. Leaving the Hall Light On charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her...
"A moving read of tragedy, trying to prevent it, and coping with life after." - Midwest Book Review "Moving, intimate and very inspiring." - Mark Shel...
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71,56 zł |