Everyone has a list of favorite movies, but few people trulyunderstand how much these movies reveal about our personalities.Cinescopes invites readers to find their ten favorite movies in aglossary of more than 3,000 popular films and then offersspectacular insights into what our most-loved films reveal aboutourselves. Using a unique blend of pop psychology, astrology, andcinematic analysis, Cinescopes profiles sixteen different types ofmovie fans, complete with their own unique strengths, weaknesses,secrets, and characteristic behaviors. Along the way, you'll alsodiscover how you measure up to other kinds of movie buffs,including your best and worst relationship matches, your personalnemesis, and even other movies you may enjoy. Cinescopes is awonderful conversation starter and a delightful gift forpop-culture enthusiasts of all ages.
Book De*ion The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent witmake difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id-- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life andthought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionizedour attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world oflate-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explorehis early background in science, his work as a therapist, hisencounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious,dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality. We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients --The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's viewas the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art andprobing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud withouttrivializing him.
Have you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating yourchildren in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? Theauthors of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting call for a new GoldenRule: Do unto your children as you would have other people do untoyour children. And most important, they show us how to live by it.Based upon extensive research, firsthand experience, and casestudies, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting breaks the mold oftraditional parenting books by taking into account the strong roleof emotions -- those of parents and children -- in psychologicaldevelopment. With this book, parents will learn how to communicatewith children on a deeper, more gratifying level and how to helpthem successfully navigate the intricacies of relating to others.The authors take the five basic principles of Daniel Goleman'sbest-seller, Emotional Intelligence, and explain how they can beapplied to successful parenting. To this end, the book offerssuggestions, stories, dialogues, activities, and a special secti
With over 340 Wordsearch puzzles, The Wordsearch Book's easy-to-read format and wide-ranging subjects make it perfect for puzzle lovers of all ages. Find Dickens' characters, reminisce about Benny Goodman's hit recordings, find quotes by President Teddy Roosevelt and anthropologist Margaret Mead, get "The Bear Facts" about these wonderful animals, learn about the creator of McDonald's, and much, much more!
Childhood polio left Leonard Kriegel without the use of hislegs. In Flying Solo, he writes in a lyrical, uncompromising voiceabout the interlaced themes of courage and masculinity against thebackdrop of loss. Tracing memories back to his coming of age in the1940s and 1950s, he portrays an interior life partly sustained bytraditional visions of manhood, partly raging at the impossibilityof fully living them out. Flying Solo is beautiful personal writingthat will change the way we think about manhood.
This is the ideaL book for the golf enthusiast who wants to improve and perfect their game, gain an in-depth knowledge of the ruLes of the game and who is inspired by reading about ten of the WorLd's most prized golf courses. It's packed fuLL of practicaL advice that reveaL the secrets of successfuL goLf techniques, aLL expLained in superb step-by-step coLour photography and easy-to-foLLow instructionaL text. One of the UK's foremost professionaL goLf instructors, the author Chris Meadows gives his professionaL, no-nonsense advice and tips on: choosing the correct equipment developing a consistent and effective swing deaLing with the intricacies of the short game - chipping, pitching and putting quick fixes for common faults the rules and etiquette of goLf. The perfect book for beginners and experienced golfers aLike, packed fuLL of essential information that wiLL enhance your enjoyment and performance of this chaLLenging and wonderfuL game.
Everyone, from the very old to the very young, can benefit from this book, Eating the right food can do wonders for your IQ, concentration and memory at any age. Research has shown that food rich in certain nutrients, such as omega-3s, vitamins and carotenoids can have a profound effect, not only on the brain's development, but also on a person's moods. This book contains 60 delicious recipes that are specially devised to 'feed' your brain, giving it all the essential nutrients to function well. There is a special section for children, advice on lunch boxes and specific adult and children's eating plans. The introduction, by nutrition expert Judith Wills, lays out the science in an accessible way, and combined with the simple step-by-step recipes, you will have all the know-how you need to boost your brain power.
In easy-to-use outline form, this little book is a handydistillation of the best-selling MLA Handbook, with all theinformation a student needs to format a type*, list sources atthe end of the paper, cite sources in the paper's text, and avoidunintentional plagiarism. It also includes a sample outline andresearch paper and, for writers in the social sciences, a briefdiscussion of the style preferred by the American PsychologicalAssociation. Up to date-with rules for citing such new media asCD-ROMS, videotapes, and online databases. Includes a completesample outline and research paper, with an appendix on APAstyle.
How would you like to look and feel ten years younger in justten weeks time? Studies show that Americans on the whole are aging faster thanever with conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart diseaseoccurring increasingly earlier on in life—along with everyday ageindicators like wrinkles and love handles. Now, Dr. Steven Masley,former medical director of the prestigious Pritikin LongevityCenter and a pioneer in anti-aging medicine, delivers abreakthrough plan to turn back the clock, inside and out—no matterwhat your age! Originally featured on the Discovery Channel, the Ten YearsYounger Program is designed to combat the roots of acceleratedaging. Poor nutrition, toxins in the environment, stress, andexposure to free radicals all make us old before our time, alongwith a little-known aging culprit: low- and no-carb diets. As Dr.Masley shows, low-carb diets deprive the body of anti-agingphytonutrients and fiber, accelerate osteoporosis, and damage braincells. So the first secret of turni
Unplanned pregnancies happen to women in every season of life:the newly married, the never-married, the empty-nester, theteenager, the overworked mother, the career woman. Yet we rarelytalk about how lonely and confusing this experience can be. In Surprise Child, Leslie Leyland Fields, whoexperienced two unplanned pregnancies in her forties, lyricallyweaves her own story with the stories of other women who understandthe isolation you face as expectations and plans are turned upsidedown to make room for a child. “Each year, more than three million women discover themselvespregnant–at a hard time, the wrong time, at a difficult place intheir lives. I am one of those women.…” Together, these women walk with you month-by-month through thephysical and emotional stages of pregnancy, voicing with startlinghonesty their own anxieties and struggles. Here you will find thecompanionship and hope you need to journey toward new life.