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Understanding Death, Dying, and Bereavement

ISBN: 9780155066182

473,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
Using a social-psychological approach, this edition remains solidly grounded in theory and research but places greater emphasis on the individual and copying with death and dying. These two well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross-cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.

Ethical Issues in Interpersonal Communication: Friends, Intimates, Sexuality, Marriage & Family

ISBN: 9780155082571

252,22 PLN (BRUTTO)
This interdisciplinary text integrates current and classical articles, critical thinking questions, and case studies into a unique anthology that focuses on the discipline of ethics and how it interacts with key aspects of human communication. Organized around major concepts in interpersonal communication, such as the self, dyads/friendships, intimate relationships, marriage, and family.

Beating the Adoption Odds: Revised and Updated

ISBN: 9780156005227

133,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
The completely revised and updated edition of "the definitive guide to modern infant adoption" (Los Angeles Times).

Friends for Life: Enriching the Bond Between Mothers and Their Adult Daughters

ISBN: 9780156005913

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
Drawing on interviews, expert advice, and the authors' own experiences, this wise, inspiring book will "aid every woman who has a mother, is a mother, or hopes to become one" (New York Times).

Mommy I'm Scared

ISBN: 9780156005920

77,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
This authoritative, realistic guide explains why children are drawn to scary shows, why the current television rating system is inadequate - and how parents can select safe and appropriate shows for kids of various ages.

Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition

ISBN: 9780156006057

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Now updated with new material on AIDS and support groups, this "completely non-judgmental, very informative, and extremely effective book" (Library Journal)is a standard reference for parents of gays and lesbians.

Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism

ISBN: 9780156011006

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Why do some people lead positive, hope-filled lives, while others wallow in pessimism? In her groundbreaking book, Half Empty, Half Full, leading psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher Susan C. Vaughan reveals the specific character traits that produce highly hopeful individuals and offers fresh and helpful advice on how to become a more optimistic person. Examining the origins of optimism in early childhood and presenting new evidence for the role of biology in how we interpret our experiences, Vaugha

Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

ISBN: 9780156035101

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
A new and revised edition Bestselling children's author and internationally respected literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to learn to read.
With passion and humor, Fox speaks of when, where, and why to read aloud and demonstrates how to read aloud to best effect and how to get the most out of a read-aloud session. She discusses the three secrets of reading, offers guidance on defining and choosing good books, an

The Black Parents' Handbook: A Guide to Healthy Pregnancy, Birth, and Child Care

ISBN: 9780156131001

61,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
The first book written specifically for black mothers and fathers that discusses every aspect of parenthood from the time a child is conceived until age six. In collaboration with Donald R. Frisby, M.D., Richard A. McLaughlin, M.D., and Melvin W. Williams, M.D.

On Violence

ISBN: 9780156695008

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. "Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times"(Nation). Index.

My Reconciliation Book: Call to Celebrate

ISBN: 9780159016527

130,98 PLN (BRUTTO)

Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being: Key Indicators of Well-Being

ISBN: 9780160861079

150,03 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living with Dying: A Guide for Palliative Care

ISBN: 9780192625144

346,32 PLN (BRUTTO)
The third edition of this successful book has been updated to incorporate the latest advances in the treatment of the terminally ill and includes a new section on non-malignant diseases and home care. Based on many years of clinical practice and research at St. Christopher's Hospice in London, the first teaching hospice, Living with Dying presents practical, balanced advice on the general ethical and medical principles of caring for dying patients and considers the details of the control of pain and other s

Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties: The Facts

ISBN: 9780192626615

277,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Angela is ten years old. Her parents describe her as a bright girl. Yet Angela's teachers have told them that their child's reading ability is well below that of the rest of her class.
Michael is eight. He is healthy, energetic, and his parents say he is "always on the go." But Michael's problems have been piling up at school--his writing is illegible, his attention span is short, and his teacher complains that he cannot sit still. A psychologist discovered that he could not form letters, no matter how

The Potential for Health

ISBN: 9780192629449

342,22 PLN (BRUTTO)
Can health be improved? Can the quality of healthcare be delivered more effectively? Can doctors and other health professionals be better at their job and deliver higher quality of care? The answer to these three questions is "yes," and this book shows how using existing knowledge the enormous potential for health can be achieved. A key part of improving health, healthcare and the quality of life of patients and the country is to ensure that those concerned with delivering the services have high standards o

Promoting Children's Emotional Well-Being

ISBN: 9780192631749

443,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
This book explores the concept of emotional well-being in children and describes the research suggesting how this can be promoted. Emotional well-being is something much greater than simply the absence of problems, and is not something that just develops at home. This book is about strategies to ensure that children maximize their potential and increase the quality of their lives by fostering well-being as a concept inclusive of confidence, empathy, pro-social behaviour, creativity and a sense of achievemen

Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts

ISBN: 9780192632821

117,21 PLN (BRUTTO)

Listen First: Focused Listening Tasks for Beginners Teacher's Book

ISBN: 9780194344234

79,51 PLN (BRUTTO)
Listen First teaches practical, listening skills through focused listening tasks. It is ideal for students who have little or no knowledge of English. Students learn how to focus on specific information and screen out irrelevant material, now to interact in given contexts, and how to ask for clarification.

For Better, for Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present

ISBN: 9780195036145

428,35 PLN (BRUTTO)
Did you know that...The "contemporary" fashion of living together before marriage is far from new, and was frequently practiced in earlier days...Self-divorce, although never legal, was once a commonplace occurrence...Marriage is more popular today than in the Victorian era...Marriage in church was not compulsory in England and Wales until the mid-18th century. These are just a few of the fascinating, and often surprising, revelations in For Better, For Worse, the most comprehensive treatment to date of the

Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying

ISBN: 9780195045154

449,88 PLN (BRUTTO)
Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on anthropology, religion, politics, philosophy, the natural sciences, economics, and psychology to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death, showing how death contributes to social change and how the meanings of death are generated to serve social functions. Working from a social as well as a psychological perspective, Kearl analyzes traditional topics, including aging,

Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

ISBN: 9780195073843

247,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further discus

The Psychology of Adoption

ISBN: 9780195082739

256,08 PLN (BRUTTO)
Recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their non-adopted peers. The rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population. However, our understanding of the basis of these problems remains unclear. In this work, David Brodzinsky, who has conducted one of the largest studies of adopted children, along with Mar

Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

ISBN: 9780195083217

191,49 PLN (BRUTTO)
The feisty warm-hearted "mum" has long figured as a symbol of the working class in Britain, yet working-class history has emphasized male organizations such as clubs, unions, or political parties. Investigating a different dimension of social history, Love and Toil focuses on motherhood among the London poor in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, and on the cultures, communities, and ties with husbands and children that women created. Mothers' skills in managing the family budget, earning income, and ca

The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age

ISBN: 9780195090567

212,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
During the last few decades the study of the family has flourished, and in the process many myths about what life was like two or three centuries ago have been debunked. For example, contrary to popular belief, we now know that most women in the preindustrial West did not marry before they were twenty-five. Most households consisted of no more than four or five people, usually including unrelated young people working as servants. And perhaps most surprising of all, multigenerational households were not very

Out of Touch: When Parents & Children Lose Contact After Divorce

ISBN: 9780195095357

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
The breakdown of the family has moved in recent years to the forefront of national consciousness. All manner of social ills, from poor academic performance to teenage drug use and gang crime, have been attributed to high divorce rates and the collapse of the traditional two-parent family. Targets of particularly harsh criticism are parents who lose all contact with their children after a divorce. So-called "deadbeat dads" are denounced in political speeches and ridiculed on billboard advertisements; mothers

Helping Battered Women: New Perspectives and Remedies

ISBN: 9780195095876

204,19 PLN (BRUTTO)
Women battering is one of the most pervasive and dangerous problems in American society today. An estimated 8.7 million women fall victim to violence in their own homes each year. Helping Battered Women provides students with the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by internationally recognized professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The authors provide cogent a

The Oldest Old

ISBN: 9780195097573

299,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
More than 2.3 million Americans are now age 85 and older, and the population total in this age group is steadily expanding. This book brings together leading researchers to review current knowledge about the demography, health, epidemiology and social status of the oldest old. From discussions of the impact of Alzheimer's disease to an examination of changing social and medical policies, this book provides much needed information about this often neglected but growing group.The special problems attendant to

A Toddler's Life: Becoming a Person

ISBN: 9780195099232

148,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
What sets humans apart from other social animals? In an intimate account of child's development from age one to three, distinguished psychologist Marilyn Shatz answers this question by arguing that humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves, to compare themselves to others, and to self-correct. Language plays a central role in such processes because it offers the developing child a powerful tool for going beyond immediate experience to an understanding of unobservable states and motivations

Combatting Child Abuse: International Perspectives and Trends

ISBN: 9780195100099

492,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
The problem of child abuse has become increasingly evident in North America and Western Europe. Many countries are now struggling with issues involving the definition of child maltreatment, reporting requirements, processes for responding to reports, substantiation rates, and services to abused children and their families. This book illustrates alternative approaches to dealing with these problems by examining and comparing the designs of child abuse systems in nine countries: the US, English, Canada, Nethe

Any Child Can Read Better: Developing Your Child's Reading Skills Outside the Classroom

ISBN: 9780195102185

169,91 PLN (BRUTTO)
Reading, however fundamental the task may seem to everyday life, is a complex process that takes years to master. Yet, learning to read in the early stages is not an overwhelming problem for most children, especially when their classroom learning is coupled with a nurturing home environment in which reading is cherished, and pencil and paper are always available and fun to use. In fact, studies have shown that children score higher in reading if their parents support and encourage them at home. Unfortunatel

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males

ISBN: 9780195102192

150,14 PLN (BRUTTO)
Today, young Black men are more likely to be killed or sent to prison than to graduate from college. Yet, despite all the obstacles, some are achieving at the highest academic and professional levels.
Beating the Odds tells their remarkable stories and shows us what African American families have done to raise academically successful sons, sons who are among the top two percent of African American males in terms of SAT scores and grades. The result of extensive and innovative research, Beating the Odds

Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer

ISBN: 9780195105919

178,35 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this unique book, Grace Christ relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer. Using extensive case examples throughout, Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer provides a detailed examination of how children and adolescents cope with this loss. Covering a critical 20 month period, from 6 months before to

Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development

ISBN: 9780195109771

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory. Sociocultural theory began with the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues but has been significantly expanded and modified recent years. Since the late 1970s, sociocultural theory has challenged existing notions of cognitive development by suggesting that psychological functioning is specific to its social context and is dependent

ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

ISBN: 9780195113495

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Paul Wender began his career treating children with ADHD 37 years ago and has treated adults with the disorder for almost 30 years. His exhaustive research and insight gained from clinical practice led to the first book about ADHD in children (Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children, 1971). Continuing research revealed that in many instances ADHD persisted into adult life, and that adult ADHD included symptoms that were not present in childhood. These findings resulted in his 1995 book Attention Deficit Hyper

What Women Want - What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love & Commitment So Differently

ISBN: 9780195114881

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Following the work of E. O. Wilson, Desmond Morris, and David Buss, What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament of marriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions.
Drawing upon 2000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews that show how our sexual psychologies affect every

The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Your Own

ISBN: 9780195116434

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying?
In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfillment, a "last career." Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tri

The Politics of Child Abuse in America

ISBN: 9780195116687

234,55 PLN (BRUTTO)
Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intensified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while being "protected" by public agencies. This "rediscovery" has also led to the frenzied pursuit of offenders, resu

The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders

ISBN: 9780195119176

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
For thousands of loving and concerned parents of autistic children, the suspicion that something may be wrong comes long before the clinical diagnosis of autism, PDD (pervasive developmental disorder), or Asperger's syndrome. When rounds of testing and consultations confirm parents' worst fears, their emotional turmoil is matched by an overriding practical concern: What do we do next?
The World of the Autistic Child is by far the most complete and comprehensive book ever written for the parents of autist

Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

ISBN: 9780195121650

126,89 PLN (BRUTTO)
Based on research findings, Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner City Black Girls utilizes a foundation of theology, philosophy, sociology, human development, and contextual psychodynamic theory to understand how Black girls create meaningful identities. These substantive knowledge areas are interwoven with strength and health perspectives to theorize and interpret adolescent lives. Presented in their own language, the Black girls' factual self-narratives, group interactions, dialogs, and case illustrati

Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women

ISBN: 9780195126426

148,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP).
Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many live in single-parent households-e

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child

ISBN: 9780195126587

159,19 PLN (BRUTTO)
This book offers a readable, comprehensive summary including everything a parent or teacher would want to know about growing up deaf. Marschark studies topics ranging from what it means to be deaf and the uniqueness of Deaf culture to the medical causes of early hearing loss; from technological aids for the deaf to the many ways that the environment of home and school can influence a deaf child's chances for success in both academic and social circles. He makes sense of the most current educational and scie

Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging

ISBN: 9780195128246

256,08 PLN (BRUTTO)
As recent articles about "the graying of America" suggest, a demographic revolution is well underway. The number of people living into extreme old age is increasing dramatically. By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population, including the developing countries, will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century.
In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood unfolds some of the deepest mysteries of medical science while demoli

Raising a Child with a Neuromuscular Disorder: A Guide for Parents, Grandparents, Friends, & Professionals

ISBN: 9780195128437

277,62 PLN (BRUTTO)
Raising a child with a neuromuscular disorder can be a overwhelming experience for even the strongest parent or grandparent. Dr. Charlotte Thompson, a leading authority in pediatric neuromuscular disorders, draws on her 38 years of experience treating children with muscular dystrophy, spinal atrophy, congenital and mitochondrial myopathies, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, and all the childhood neuromuscular disorders. Her book provides not only medical facts but much practical advice on how to cope with the many chall

Love Is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships

ISBN: 9780195131024

169,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story--and how to read your relationships in a whole new light.
What draws us so strongly to some people and repels us from others? What makes some relationships work so smoothly and others burst into flames? Sternberg gives us new answers to these questions by showing that the kind of relationship we create depends on the kind of love stories we carry inside us. Drawing on extensive research and

What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently

ISBN: 9780195131031

169,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
Following the work of E. O. Wilson, Desmond Morris, and David Buss, What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament of marriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions.
Drawing upon 2000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews that show how our sexual psychologies affect every

Raising a Handicapped Child: A Helpful Guide for Parents of the Physically Disabled

ISBN: 9780195132533

148,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
About 12% of all school children are disabled from birth defects, accidents, illnesses or other causes. This means 700 children are born each day who need special care, and the number appears to be growing. Raising a Handicapped Child offers a complete, practical, and reassuring guide for parents who care for these children.
Widely acclaimed by parents and professionals since its first publication, this revised and expanded handbook is still the only one of its kind to discuss both the emotional and phy

Safe Passage: Making It Through Adolescence in a Risky Society: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do

ISBN: 9780195137859

213,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Children today face daunting obstacles on the path to adulthood--failing schools, dangerous streets, drug abuse, teen pregnancy. But the good news, according to child advocate Joy Dryfoos, is that there are many programs out there that work--models that we can apply to our own communities and our own children. In Safe Passage, Dryfoos helps us find them.
Indeed, this book examines hundreds of successful programs, ideas that have worked in the real world--in a very tough real world at that--such as the T

Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging

ISBN: 9780195139266

169,74 PLN (BRUTTO)
By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood draws on more than twenty years of research to make sense of the evolution of aging, to explain how aging occurs, and to answer fundamental questions like why women live longer than men. He shows that we age because our genes, evolving at a time when life was "nasty, brutish, and short,"

Cells, Aging, and Human Disease

ISBN: 9780195140354

471,37 PLN (BRUTTO)
Cells, Aging, and Human Disease is the first book to explore aging all the way from genes to clinical application, analyzing the fundamental cellular changes which underlie human age-related disease. With over 4,000 references, this text explores both the fundamental processes of human aging and the tissue-by-tissue pathology, detailing both breaking research and current state-of-the-art clinical interventions in aging and age-related disease.
Far from merely sharing a common onset late in the lifespan,

Children with Cancer: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Parents

ISBN: 9780195147391

91,44 PLN (BRUTTO)
Children can and do survive cancer; the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment. Written honestly, yet in a reassuring tone, by a reference librarian whose child has survived cancer, Children with Cancer draws together a wealth of up-to-date information essential for anyone who wishes to help a child or family through this ordeal--including relatives, friends, teachers, and clergymen, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. The information ranges from sophisticated

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