The final and conclusive book in the groundbreaking series onboys and their development In this climax to his series of landmark books about boys,Michael Gurian offers a powerful new program to help us give oursons a core purpose–a program based on building morality,character, career goals, the ability to form intimaterelationships, selflessness, personal and community responsibility,and an accelerated process of developmental maturity. Gurianreveals how important purpose is for the success and happiness ofboys and explains how a boy's core personality, nature, and geneticpredisposition functions to create both strengths and weaknesses intheir journey towards maturity. Includes an innovative program for support and interventionsaccording to the unique needs, weaknesses, and strengths of eachindividual young man. This book is the follow-up to Gurian's bestselling The Mindsof Boys Draws on the latest science and field research on how boysdevelop neurologically Guri
A leading researcher shares natural remedies for psoriasis According to the National Psoriasis Foundation, at least sevenmillion people in the U.S. and more than 100 million worldwidesuffer from this chronic skin disease. This book outlines Dr.Pagano's natural, drug-free treatment regimen that can alleviate,control, and even heal psoriasis without steroid creams, tar baths,injections, or ultraviolet treatments. Healing Psoriasis outlines ahealthy diet and lifestyle and includes case histories, photos,recipes, and a chapter on eczema.
作者与身患绝症的母亲关于书、关于书背后的生命的对话 Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) topopular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), from fantastic (TheHobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn), with many in between. Wehear their passion for reading and their love for each other intheir intimate and searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between achild and parent, and the power of reading in our lives. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choi
Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to bepracticed in many forms and situations throughout the world. Butuntil now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of itstenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whoseTheory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such aservice to that discipline since 1970, provides existentialpsychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimateconcerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, andmeaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existentialconcern and the type of conflict that springs from ourconfrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifestedin personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helpedby our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience,empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom haswritten a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide anintellectual home base for those p
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the mind
