Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Study of Adult Development
ISBN: 9780316090070 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a unique series of studies, Harvard University has followed 824 subjects from their teens to old age. Professor George Vaillant now uses these to illustrate the surprising factors involved in reaching happy, healthy old age.
In a unique series of studies, Harvard University has followed 824 subjects from their teens to old age. Professor George Vaillant now uses these to i...
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Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women
ISBN: 9780345471734 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An extraordinary panorama of women's lives today."--The New York Times Book Review In detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women's lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry by, leaving unfinished the tasks that transform us from child to girl to woman. Praise for Unfinished Business "Real-life problems are thoughtfully and sympathetically analyzed in Unfinished Business. . . . Love and loss, deprivation and fulfillment, the pangs of...
"An extraordinary panorama of women's lives today."--The New York Times Book Review In detailed, revealing portraits of women from ...
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127,59 zł |
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
ISBN: 9780374522698 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions--on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a... For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear o... |
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74,79 zł |
Emotional Problems of Living: Avoiding the Neurotic Pattern, third edition
ISBN: 9780393008067 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,98 zł |
The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, and Spirit
ISBN: 9780393321210 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's culture the self is considered largely a work in progress, and as we constantly reinvent ourselves, the challenge becomes one of coordinating change with the integrity and unity of the self. Using the insights of William James and evolutionary psychology as a springboard, Robert Weber explores the nature and meaning of our shifting selves. He proposes an ecology of the self based on three distinct but interdependent spheres: the body, the persona, and the spirit. Our bodily selves can be cosmetically nipped and tucked, and through new reproductive technologies extended in ways...
In today's culture the self is considered largely a work in progress, and as we constantly reinvent ourselves, the challenge becomes one of coordinati...
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109,99 zł |
Raising Good Children: From Birth Through the Teenage Years
ISBN: 9780553374292 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent's life--and an increasingly difficult one in today's society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each...
Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent's life--and an increasingly difficult one in ...
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87,99 zł |
Dirt Rich: The New American Gentry
ISBN: 9780595333875 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having NO MONEY isn't a curse; it can be a blessing.
Studying for her doctorate the author discovered Chaos Theory. Chaos is like Murphy's Law; it disrupts everything. Havoc is created but somehow things end up being better than expected. Can you make Murphy's law work for you? Chaos Theory says if you make small changes you will reap big results. It's like using the principles of investing to make your life rich. America is the Affluent Neighborhood. Built on the bones of those who revered the land, this country is powered by the all the cultures of this earth. Generations... Having NO MONEY isn't a curse; it can be a blessing.
Studying for her doctorate the author discovered Chaos Theory. Chaos is like Murphy's Law; ... |
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78,97 zł |
Dirt Rich: The New American Gentry
ISBN: 9780595668892 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having NO MONEY isn't a curse; it can be a blessing.
Studying for her doctorate the author discovered Chaos Theory. Chaos is like Murphy's Law; it disrupts everything. Havoc is created but somehow things end up being better than expected. Can you make Murphy's law work for you? Chaos Theory says if you make small changes you will reap big results. It's like using the principles of investing to make your life rich. America is the Affluent Neighborhood. Built on the bones of those who revered the land, this country is powered by the all the cultures of this earth. Generations... Having NO MONEY isn't a curse; it can be a blessing.
Studying for her doctorate the author discovered Chaos Theory. Chaos is like Murphy's Law; ... |
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122,97 zł |
The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
ISBN: 9780684830964 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers new clues about the mysterious boy raised in a dungeon.
Offers new clues about the mysterious boy raised in a dungeon.
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83,37 zł |
Disability: A Life Course Approach
ISBN: 9780745625126 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages. If offers a unique approach to understanding disabling societies in a systematic way, using a novel life course approach.
This book examines how contemporary societies organise and control generational boundaries and progression... Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates...
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299,72 zł |
The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Echoes Through Time
ISBN: 9780765701015 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of separation then to the daughter's marriage and maternity, and finally, thoughtfully, to reparative opportunities inherent in the mother's aging and dying.
This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of...
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843,97 zł |
Family Environment and Intellectual Functioning: A Life-Span Perspective
ISBN: 9780805831849 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study investigates the interrelationships between a particular kind of environment - the families we grow up in and those we create as adults, and intellectual functioning across the lifespan.
This study investigates the interrelationships between a particular kind of environment - the families we grow up in and those we create as adults, an...
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439,99 zł |
The Handbook of Aging and Cognition: Third Edition
ISBN: 9780805859904 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. This third edition reviews the findings and theories since the previous edition and evaluates the field's points of growth.
Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. This third edition reviews the findings and theories since the previous edition and evaluates the f...
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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 14, 1994: Focus on Assessment Techniques
ISBN: 9780826164964 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address topics such as assessment of health, functional disability (ADLs), mental agility, aging and personality, depression, and pain. While the instruments themselves are readily available from other sources, this book discusses the suitability, strengths, and weaknesses of various measures and offers current information on the rapidly changing, state-of-the-art assessment technology.
This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address topics such as assessment of health,...
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471,19 zł |
Heart of Development, V. 1: Early and Middle Childhood
ISBN: 9780881633405 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and interventions are...
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gest...
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181,15 zł |
The Dance of Life: Transform Your World Now!
ISBN: 9780974643106 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an expanded view of reality and brings the reader into a new state of consciousness. Three forms of consciousness are explored along with twenty mechanisms of consciousness and 12 schools of thought regarding consciousness.
This book presents an expanded view of reality and brings the reader into a new state of consciousness. Three forms of consciousness are explored alon...
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Field-Shifting: The Holodynamics of Integration: Manual III (Large Print)
ISBN: 9780974643137 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The orders within orders of consciousness are outlined in this third "Circle" in the seven "Circles of Success" program sponsored by the International Academy of Holodynamics. The principles, processes and skills of field-shifting are outlined in this third volume of the series.
The orders within orders of consciousness are outlined in this third "Circle" in the seven "Circles of Success" program sponsored by the International...
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The Art of Becoming Human: Patterns of Growth, the Adventure of Living, Love & Separation, Limitless Possibilities
ISBN: 9781573929400 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being born is just the beginning: becoming human is a long and sometimes difficult quest that takes the rest of our lives. How we live, think, and react to experiences, and who we wish to be, all contribute to our humanness, or lack of it.
With great insight and empathy, Dr. Mary E. Mercer reflects on the happiness and difficulties we encounter at each stage of life, pointing out that all growth requires separation from previous attachments and loves. As we move from infancy to old age, the pain of each separation lifts us to a higher level of awareness of ourselves. Augmented by eloquent... Being born is just the beginning: becoming human is a long and sometimes difficult quest that takes the rest of our lives. How we live, think, and rea...
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Chiron: The Wisdom of a Deeply Open Heart
ISBN: 9780978853525 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often referred to as the "wounded healer," astrological Chiron reveals what it means to be truly, wisely human. Chiron: The Wisdom of a Deeply Open Heart presents a thorough examination of the psychological, mythological and evolutionary meanings in the symbol of Chiron based in Gainsburgs extensive clinical experience working with individuals and couples. He lays out the Chironic landscape of the Soul by examining the origin of the sacred wound, the psyches defenses and emotional reality of the wound resurfacing later in life, and how the wound becomes our sacred medicine or our unique and...
Often referred to as the "wounded healer," astrological Chiron reveals what it means to be truly, wisely human. Chiron: The Wisdom of a Deeply Open He...
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93,32 zł |
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 29, 2009: Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities
ISBN: 9780826105110 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics begins with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of both the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society. This volume focuses on morbidities in general as well as specific morbidities such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, giving special attention to... It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume... |
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