Life Lessons: On Becoming A Young Man
ISBN: 9781928681236 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In spite of what some may say, or believe we don't achieve on our own. Quotes such as "I am a self-made man" or "I did it all by myself" it is my contention that we are indeed somewhat off track if we believe this. Consider the following: if we truly are self-made men, then our parents, friends, family and ancestors played no part whatsoever. We must have been born, lived, accomplished monumental tasks, set world records, overcame insurmountable obstacles, all of this was done purely by the individual's own self initiative. Allow me the opportunity to say that my father played a major role...
"In spite of what some may say, or believe we don't achieve on our own. Quotes such as "I am a self-made man" or "I did it all by myself" it is my con...
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Teenager Trouble-Shooting: : How to Stop Your Adolescent Driving You Crazy
ISBN: 9781419697494 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parenting adolescents is one of the most challenging and hardest jobs around. What makes it even harder is that there are no real guides or training manuals to assist in this process of parenting. As parents, we feel helpless at times. We run out of ideas; of things to do; of ways to approach a situation. We also run out of patience. Why can't teenagers just do as they're told? Why do they always have to push the limits? Further, with all the changes that society is experiencing and all the stresses of life that confront us, the parenting role seems to be getting harder. It doesn't however,...
Parenting adolescents is one of the most challenging and hardest jobs around. What makes it even harder is that there are no real guides or training m...
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114,43 zł |
The Wise Men And Women Have Sent Me To Tell You
ISBN: 9781440423765 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is the first book by Motivational Speaker and Trainer, Brother Marcus. Brother Marcus candidly shares his experiences of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York and offers readers four life principles that aided him in keeping his own life on track. This book helps young men to take a hard look at the kind of men they are becoming spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, socially and sexually. Brother Marcus hammers away at the pseudo image of manhood that negative rap music and hip hop culture offers young men in today's times. Other topics covered in...
"This is the first book by Motivational Speaker and Trainer, Brother Marcus. Brother Marcus candidly shares his experiences of growing up on the mean ...
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78 Peruvians: How Teenage Peru, Indiana, defined the awkward, awful, awesome 1970's
ISBN: 9781442186750 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What could be more fascinating than coming of age in an age that lacked definition? The little town of Peru, Indiana, is the setting for this collection of tales-almost true-that capture the spirit of the awkward transition from the Age of Aquarius to the Digital Age. Share the dreams, ambitions, and even the outright failures of a generation struggled to find itself against the backdrop of cornfields, Midwestern values, and smalltown practicalities that set the stage for their rapidly approaching adulthood.
What could be more fascinating than coming of age in an age that lacked definition? The little town of Peru, Indiana, is the setting for this collecti...
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Love Through the Eyes of a Seventeen Year Old
ISBN: 9780984621705 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,52 zł |
Drugs Make You Un-Smarter
ISBN: 9781467921374 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you do when a parent, a grandparent, your brother, cousins and an uncle are doing drugs? You are also expected to do drugs, right? Fifteen-year-old Savanna Peterson went beyond the expectations of others and took a stand against drugs, even when her older brother had parties while her mother was at work, the cops were watching her house, and her dad spent most of her life in prision for drug-related crimes. Drugs Make You Un-Smarter is written by a high school student and her grandmother. The book includes stories of people who have abused drugs and interviews with actors and...
What do you do when a parent, a grandparent, your brother, cousins and an uncle are doing drugs? You are also expected to do drugs, right? Fifteen-yea...
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59,58 zł |
Sketched By Design
ISBN: 9781613790014 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators and Parents
ISBN: 9780897931168 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers curriculum plans for discussing violence in the classroom, roleplaying exercises, and guidelines for starting teen support groups.
Offers curriculum plans for discussing violence in the classroom, roleplaying exercises, and guidelines for starting teen support groups.
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87,14 zł |
Mission: Possible
ISBN: 9781619967571 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Country Summers
ISBN: 9781470058074 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carefree summer vacations, nostalgically sweet songs of that summer's hit parade, the joy and sting of first love, each forms building blocks of our cherished memories. Times in our hearts before the stresses of adult responsibilities, times of learning and times of moving on to the next level of growth, all of these move us along the road to maturity. Country Summers, a work of fiction, follows a young girl, her friends and family seen through the lens of their summer vacations in Monroe, New York. Starting in an apartment on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York in 1954, Laurel Milton...
Carefree summer vacations, nostalgically sweet songs of that summer's hit parade, the joy and sting of first love, each forms building blocks of our c...
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91,69 zł |
Day Laughs Night Cries: Fifteen
ISBN: 9780988405400 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "No, Cole. I don't want to. Please." Cole pulls me closer to him. He tugs my t-shirt up. I tug it down.... "You walking 'bout the house with your fat ass like you think I don't have feelings," Cole shrieks. He breathes like a runner. His two legs box mine together. Cole brings his face close to mine. His weight on my legs pins me and he squeezes my jaws and shoves his tongue in my mouth.... "No, please, no, Cole, " I mutter, close my eyes, push him.... "S-sorry," I whisper. Swiftly, like the swing of a bat, Cole's hand flies toward my face and my eyelids lock tightly and his hand lands like a...
"No, Cole. I don't want to. Please." Cole pulls me closer to him. He tugs my t-shirt up. I tug it down.... "You walking 'bout the house with your fat ...
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Growing Up Silent in the 1950s: Not All Tailfins and Rock 'n' Roll
ISBN: 9780983776826 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing Up Silent in the 1950s likely will become the definitive social history of the Silent Generation. Whether you were a part of this generation or have no idea there was such a generation, here you will find the answer to the central question: Who are the Silent Generation and why were they not acknowledged? Those of the Silent Generation have been called deferential, well-mannered, and book smart conformists. They did what they were expected to do, putting responsibilities first, always postponing who they wanted to be. They were reared in a contradictory world, living their youth in...
Growing Up Silent in the 1950s likely will become the definitive social history of the Silent Generation. Whether you were a part of this generation o...
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171,11 zł |
Teenagers are from pluto: Ten tips for parents of teenagers
ISBN: 9781481834841 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I wish I had a pound for every time I had been asked as a therapist and as a mother: "Linda how did you manage the teenage years" or "From a psychological point of view what advice would you give to parents raising teenagers?" There is not a parent that I know that has swum through the teenager years of their offspring without some difficulty; it is part of the course. However from my experience if these years are managed in a healthy way then the terrible teen years end between nineteen and twenty one. If however, they are managed in an unhealthy way then the challenging behaviours of our...
I wish I had a pound for every time I had been asked as a therapist and as a mother: "Linda how did you manage the teenage years" or "From a psycholog...
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37,70 zł |
Walking with Jason
ISBN: 9781481732284 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the summer of 2000. He came for the graduation ceremony of the crew of students that Jason had led, and we talked. Jason had a difficult course which is common for new instructors. The next summer Jason emerged as a solid leader and had a wonderful course. Several months later while on a climbing vacation in British Columbia Jason took a tragic fall. His family's reaction was to create a foundation in Jason's name that supported his love of the...
John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the ...
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Walking with Jason
ISBN: 9781481732307 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the summer of 2000. He came for the graduation ceremony of the crew of students that Jason had led, and we talked. Jason had a difficult course which is common for new instructors. The next summer Jason emerged as a solid leader and had a wonderful course. Several months later while on a climbing vacation in British Columbia Jason took a tragic fall. His family's reaction was to create a foundation in Jason's name that supported his love of the...
John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the ...
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Letters to Grant Volume 2: Volume 2 addresses a kaleidoscope of stories that primarily, but not exclusively, occurred in the United States. It de
ISBN: 9781482554199 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 2 addresses a kaleidoscope of stories that primarily, but not exclusively, occurred in the United States. It describes in principle the trials, and tribulations of a recent immigrant to the United States, and its derived lessons. The genesis of 'Letters to Grant' was the birth of Grant on the last day of 2009, and the realization of a 70-year-old grandfather, that he has an extremely limited time window for transferring his life lessons to his grandson. Facing this dilemma, this book is the grandfathers attempt to circumvent the time problem by means of specific actual short stories...
Volume 2 addresses a kaleidoscope of stories that primarily, but not exclusively, occurred in the United States. It describes in principle the trials,...
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34,40 zł |
15 Questions Teens Would Like To Ask Their Parents But Don't
ISBN: 9780978634650 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 15 Questions presents some of the most pressing questions teenagers 12-16 years old would like to ask their parents but are uncomfortable openly discussing. Mr. Mathews presents 15 Questions given to him by teenagers and combined his research efforts into one handy, easy to read book which will help families begin the journey of improving their overall relationships between teenagers and their parent(s).
15 Questions presents some of the most pressing questions teenagers 12-16 years old would like to ask their parents but are uncomfortable openly discu...
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55,04 zł |
Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality: Time Objectified
ISBN: 9781439910665 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we experience and manipulate time be it as boredom or impatience it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to this important new book, "Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality, "have provided a diverse collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical explorations of youth experiencing time in a variety of contemporary socio-cultural settings.The essays in this volume focus on time as an external and often troubling factor in young people s lives, and...
As we experience and manipulate time be it as boredom or impatience it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects pe...
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375,62 zł |
Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women
ISBN: 9780988461369 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a tremendous amount of attention paid to the rising levels of depression, anxiety, cutting, and relationship aggression in girls over the past 50 years. But what if these issues aren't the real problem? What if adolescent girls don't have poor self esteem? What if we've got it all wrong? What if we have missed the forest for the trees? In this eye-opening book based on 30 years of successful work with girls, Dr. Tim Jordan M.D. shines a light on what is really going on with girls as they undergo their normal transformation from girl to woman during adolescence. Using fairy...
There has been a tremendous amount of attention paid to the rising levels of depression, anxiety, cutting, and relationship aggression in girls over t...
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87,32 zł |
World's Fair
ISBN: 9781481245548 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told from the point of view of the author - who was 15 at the time - "World's Fair" is the raw and witty true story of a dysfunctional Southern family's harrowing motor-home road trip from South Carolina to the Montreal World's Fair in 1967 during "The Summer of Love." An intimate coming-of-age story, "World's Fair" shines a bright light on the issues of alcoholism, adolescent sexual confusion, family violence and the universal need to love those who hurt us, despite their frailties.
Told from the point of view of the author - who was 15 at the time - "World's Fair" is the raw and witty true story of a dysfunctional Southern family...
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77,74 zł |