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The Resilient ChildThe Resilient Child, BookSeven Essential Lessons for your Child's Happiness and Success
by Everly, George S.Book - 2009
Added Mar 13, 2020
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" Enabling begins as an attempt to be protective, kind, and helpful. It can be confuse with loyalty." " 'Happiness is a journey, not a destination, so never stop trying!' " " The Value of Friends, Mentors, and the Support of Others; The Three Most Difficult Decisions; Invest In Your Health; Follow A Moral Compass and Cultivate Integrity; The Importance of Faith.....Companies without Integrity. . . . "" Enabling begins as an attempt to be protective, kind, and helpful. It can be confuse with loyalty." " 'Happiness is a journey, not a destination, so never stop trying!' " " The Value of Friends, Mentors, and the Support of Others; The Three…
Power RelationshipsPower Relationships, Book26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships
by Sobel, AndrewBook - 2014
Added Mar 13, 2020
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" The Missing Ingredient; Be Audacious; Where Were You?; The Greatest Gift; What's the Agenda; The Billionaire and the Minister; Beware of a Cart Pulling a Horse; Found Guilty; Never Steal a Bacon Sandwich; Oops!; Don't Forget Your Wallet; A Night in the Garbage Bin; The Carrot and the Stick; Draw Them In; For the Sheer Joy of It; A Pebble in a Pond; Don't Wait etc. . . . . . "" The Missing Ingredient; Be Audacious; Where Were You?; The Greatest Gift; What's the Agenda; The Billionaire and the Minister; Beware of a Cart Pulling a Horse; Found Guilty; Never Steal a Bacon Sandwich; Oops!; Don't Forget Your Wallet; A Night…
Your Child's Writing LifeYour Child's Writing Life, BookHow to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age
by Allyn, PamBook - 2011
Added Mar 13, 2020
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" Top Ten Stages of Writing Development: 1. The Talk/Listen/Talk Loop 2. Play 3. Making Pictures 4. Stringing Letters 5. Labeling Drawings with parts of words 6. Labeling Drawings with whole approximated words 7. Drawing connected pictures over multiple pages 8. Stringing words 9. Building Sentences 10. Making paragraphs " By the author of WHAT TO READ WHEN." Top Ten Stages of Writing Development: 1. The Talk/Listen/Talk Loop 2. Play 3. Making Pictures 4. Stringing Letters 5. Labeling Drawings with parts of words 6. Labeling Drawings with whole approximated words 7. Drawing connected pictures…
Think and Grow RichThink and Grow Rich, BookThe Original Edition Plus Bonus Material
by Hill, NapoleonBook - 2019
Added Mar 13, 2020
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" The fact that you are reading this book is an indication that you earnestly seek knowledge."
Ignore It!Ignore It!, BookHow Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction
by Pearlman, CatherineBook - 2017
Added Mar 13, 2020
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" 'The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.'---B.F. Skinner " " Give kids the opportunity to act correctly, and they almost always will."" 'The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.'---B.F. Skinner " " Give kids the opportunity to act correctly, and…
No. 44, the Mysterious StrangerNo. 44, the Mysterious Stranger, BookBeing An Ancient Tale Found in A Jug, and Freely Translated From the Jug
by Twain, MarkBook - 2004
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Added Mar 13, 2020
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This is the best short piece of work Clemens did; it is fantastic social and psychological commentary compressed into allegory form. Really puts that one about racing frogs in Northern California to shame. " 'This edition replaces the spurious 1916 edition published by Albert Bigelow Paine, which relied on the first instead of the final draft and deleted one-fourth of Mark Twain's words. It includes expert notes and commentary, as well as an illuminating glossary of printer's terms.' " " ' Text established by William M. Gibson and the staff of the Mark Twain Project. Foreword and notes by John S. Tuckey.' "This is the best short piece of work Clemens did; it is fantastic social and psychological commentary compressed into allegory form. Really puts that one about racing frogs in Northern California to shame. " 'This edition replaces the spurious…
The Anatomy of Mental IllnessThe Anatomy of Mental Illness, BookThe Scientific Basis of Primal Therapy
by Janov, ArthurBook - 1972
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Added Mar 13, 2020
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" If the patient is being bright, humble, polite, obsequious, hostile, dramatic--whatever the front he presents---it is forbidden in an effort to get him beyond the defense and into the feeling. If the patient raises his knees or turns his head, he is made to lie straight. He may giggle or yawn as feelings rise, and this is immediately pointed out with impatience. He may try to change the subject, and this is stopped. Or he may literally swallow the feeling, as is true with many patients who swallow each time a feeling starts to come up. This is one reason we keep the mouth open." " I urge him to say the feeling even though he doesn't know what he is feeling. He will start to form a word only to begin thrashing about and writhing in Pain. I urge him to let it out, and he will begin to say something. Finally, out it will come: a scream---'Daddy, be nice!' 'Mommy, help!'--or just the word 'hate' : 'I hate you, I hate you!' This is the Primal Scream. It comes out in shuddering gasps, pushed out by the force of years of suppressions and denials of that feeling. Sometimes the scream is only 'Mommy!' or 'Daddy!' Just saying those words brings with it torrents of Pain since many 'mommies' would not even permit their children to call them anything but 'Mother'. Letting down and being that little child who needs a 'mommy' helps release all the stored-up feeling."" If the patient is being bright, humble, polite, obsequious, hostile, dramatic--whatever the front he presents---it is forbidden in an effort to get him beyond the defense and into the feeling. If the patient raises his knees or turns his head, he…
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Added Mar 12, 2020
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the blues on being a black female writer.
Enlightenment NowEnlightenment Now, BookThe Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Pinker, StevenBook - 2018
Added Mar 12, 2020
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" People who lead happy but not necessarily meaningful lives have all their needs satisfied: they are healthy, have enough money, and feel good a lot of the time. People who lead meaningful lives may enjoy none of these boons. Happy people live in the present; those with meaningful lives have a narrative about their past and a plan for the future." "Parents get meaning from their children, but not necessarily do they derive happiness from them." "It's not that people with meaningful lives masochistically go looiking for trouble but that they pursue ambitious goals; 'Man plans and God laughs'." "Meaning is about expressing rather thatn satisfying the self: it is enhanced by activities that define the person and build a reputation."" People who lead happy but not necessarily meaningful lives have all their needs satisfied: they are healthy, have enough money, and feel good a lot of the time. People who lead meaningful lives may enjoy none of these boons. Happy people live…
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Added Mar 12, 2020
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" Whatever their social purpose of position, the Silent acknowledged the unstoppability of G.I. institutions. When Peter, Paul, and Mary sang IF I HAD A HAMMER, their peers knew that the G.I.s had all the hammers and were using them to build ICBMs and interstate highways. Premonitions of guilt began seeping into the Silent mind-set, a dread that horrible social crimes were being committed and hushed up, all for the sake of social discipline.....As young 'outside agitators' started to probe the G.I. edifice for weak points, this rising generation was singing, ever more loudly, 'Deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome some day'. " " Encased in what Ken Kesey depicted as the 'cuckoo's nest' sanitarium of High-era culture, the Silent bent the rules by cultivating refined naughtiness. Hugh Hefner described the consummate playboy as one who 'likes jazz, foreign films, Ivy League clothes, gina and tonic, and pretty girls', with an 'approach to life' that is 'fresh, sophisticated, and yet admittedly sentimental'. By the decade's end, hip thinking moved out of coffeehousees and into the suburbs with a style John Updike called 'half Door store, half Design Research'. As Updike and Philip Roth wrote risque novels about self-doubters, Tom Lehrer and Stan Freburg brought sophistication to satire, and Andy Warhol found art in a G.I. soup can. Apart from James Dean and Presley, the typical young-adult film stars were 'goofballs' like Jerry Lewis or 'sweethearts' like Debbie Reynolds, usually cast alongside confident G.I. 'straight men'. "" Whatever their social purpose of position, the Silent acknowledged the unstoppability of G.I. institutions. When Peter, Paul, and Mary sang IF I HAD A HAMMER, their peers knew that the G.I.s had all the hammers and were using them to build ICBMs…
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Added Mar 12, 2020
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" Putin has feet of clay. The Russian economy, so robust in his first decade of rule, remains smaller than Italy's or Canada's and shows no promise of further improvement. Free enterprise is withdrawing as foreign investors abandon the country due to sanctions, opaque rules for doing business, and an unwillingness to pay bribes. Wealth is distributed less equally than in any other major nation---a throwback to the time of the czars. The country's population is aging....Putin's deceptions are no longer fooling so many. Yet he has already succeeded in giving men of ambition elsewhere 'many good ideas'. "" Putin has feet of clay. The Russian economy, so robust in his first decade of rule, remains smaller than Italy's or Canada's and shows no promise of further improvement. Free enterprise is withdrawing as foreign investors abandon the country due…
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Added Mar 08, 2020
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" On the morning of May 10, having been informed that the Germans had begun invading Holland and Belgium, and knowing he likely would take office later that day, Churchill breakfasted on fried eggs and bacon, and then enjoyed a cigar....he was on the verge of achieving his lifelong ambition to be the prime minister of Great Britain." (May 10, 1940)" On the morning of May 10, having been informed that the Germans had begun invading Holland and Belgium, and knowing he likely would take office later that day, Churchill breakfasted on fried eggs and bacon, and then enjoyed a cigar....he was on…
Added Mar 08, 2020
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R.I.P. McCoy Tyner, of whom Mr. Coltrane had some nice things to say.
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Added Mar 08, 2020
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"William James had written of his own teacher Louis Agassiz--how Agassiz 'used to lock a student up in a room full of turtle shells, or lobster shells, or oyster shells, without a book or work to help him, and not to let him out till he had discovered all the truths which the objects contained'." "People with Tourette's are often unusually open to hypnosis and suggestion and disposed to involuntary repetition and imitation." "I walked down to San Francisco's Union Square, where Qantas had an office, presented my passport, and said I wanted to go on the first available flight to Sydney." " ' Natural selection almost always builds on what went before'. " " 'Life must be lived forward but can only be understood backwards.' ---Kierkegaard ""William James had written of his own teacher Louis Agassiz--how Agassiz 'used to lock a student up in a room full of turtle shells, or lobster shells, or oyster shells, without a book or work to help him, and not to let him out till he had…
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"Elected to the Senate in 1952, John Kennedy's congressional career offered little indication of the heights to which he later would rise." "THE NEW YORK TIMES' Jack Raymond provided a full-page analysis of the military-industrial complex, replete with graphs detailing the exorbitance of U.S. defense spending, which accounted for 59 % of the nearly $81 billion national budget. In addition to spending half the federal budget, he noted, the Pentagon also controlled $32 billion worth of real estate, including air bases and weapons arsenals. Raymond explained how the military and industry worked hand in glove to achieve this." "In the minds of some leaders in the military and intelligence community, Kennedy was guilty of far more than three betrayals: he was guilty of not following through in the Bay of Pigs, disempowering the CIA and firing its leaders, resisting involvement and opting for a neutralist solution in Laos, concluding the atmospheric test ban treaty, planning to disengage from Vietnam, flirting with ending the Cold War, abandoning the spce race, encouraging third-world nationalism, and, perhaps most damningly, accepting a negotiated settlement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.""Elected to the Senate in 1952, John Kennedy's congressional career offered little indication of the heights to which he later would rise." "THE NEW YORK TIMES' Jack Raymond provided a full-page analysis of the military-industrial complex,…
Added Mar 08, 2020
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" On the right side of the road, for the whole of its length, stood telegraph poles with two wires. Getting smaller and smaller, they disappeared near the village behind the cottages and greenery, and then appeared again in the purple distance, in the guise of very small, thin sticks, like pencils stuck in the ground. On the wires sat hawks, merlins, and crows, looking indifferently at the moving train." " He took off his cassock, stroked his chest, and unhurriedly opened the package. Egorushka saw a tin of caviar, a piece of smoked sturgeon, and a loaf of French bread." " 'The mole has a strong chest, like the bat,' he went on, locking the box, 'its bones and muscles are awfully well developed, its jaw is extraordinarily well equipped. If it had the dimensions of an elephant, it would be an all-destructive, invincible animal. It's interesting that when two moles meet underground, they both begin to prepare a flat space, as if by arrangement; they need this space in order to fight more conveniently. Once they've made it, they start a cruel battle and struggle until the weaker one falls. Here, take the hundred roubles, ' said von Koren, lowering his voice, 'but only on condition that you're not taking it for Laevsky.' "" On the right side of the road, for the whole of its length, stood telegraph poles with two wires. Getting smaller and smaller, they disappeared near the village behind the cottages and greenery, and then appeared again in the purple distance, in…
This Fight Is Our FightThis Fight Is Our Fight, BookThe Battle to Save America's Middle Class
by Warren, ElizabethBook - 2017
Added Mar 05, 2020
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WADE RODHAM.....WASN'T hilary's maiden name 'rodham'? the secret service workers who were 'on duty' in dallas were not the regular crew. i heard tell they got 25,000 dollars to look the other way, react slowly, etc. is it possible that jfk was disliked by this crew? or were they just hungry? / warren appeared not to like bernie during one of the debates, at the end, she goes charging up to bernie, exclaiming, 'did you just call me a liar on national tv'? 'let's talk about it later' was his response. biden's cronies dropped out of the race in order not to cut into his votes. warren has not overtly refused to do so; she is being passive-aggressive, and this surely robbed bernie of some progressive votes he sorely needed to defeat the shocking biden comeback, on 'super tuesday'./ when a woman has a grudge she is said to have an animus; when a man has one, he is not said to have an anima (against).WADE RODHAM.....WASN'T hilary's maiden name 'rodham'? the secret service workers who were 'on duty' in dallas were not the regular crew. i heard tell they got 25,000 dollars to look the other way, react slowly, etc. is it possible that jfk was…
The Crime BookThe Crime Book, Book
Book - 2017
Added Mar 05, 2020
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" 'If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree' ----The Yakuza, 1946- " " 'Charlie (Richardson) is evil....in the nicest possible way. Evil people sometimes are.' " "Ronnie Kray identified as bisexual in his 1993 book MY STORY, but biographer John Pearson's claim that Reggie Cray liked men, has been denied, by the family. Pearson wrote in a book published after the twins were dead, that they had engaged in incest. Ronnie was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and was transferred to Broadmoor." " According to reports, John Paul Getty III tried to thank his grandfather for getting him released from his kidnappers, but the old fellow wouldn't take his call." " Patricia Hearst and 'Stockholm Syndrome'." " Bundy loved the playacting, the setup." "Bundy's theme: the (female) college student killer" " ' Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession.'----Ted." "one of Ted's aliases was, 'Chris Hagen'. Another was, 'Kenneth Misner'. " " 'Classic footage from the Zapruder (sic): Nix's film' claims Jackie Kennedy was tending to her mortally wounded husband;" it is a still photo which shows her climbing on the back of the limousine, attempting to reach a portion of his brain which had landed there. It is from earlier in the film that stills show the actual assassin on the grassy knoll, with the gun aimed in both of his hands." 'If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree' ----The Yakuza, 1946- " " 'Charlie (Richardson) is evil....in the nicest possible way. Evil people sometimes are.' " "Ronnie Kray identified as bisexual in his 1993 book MY…
Added Mar 05, 2020
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Using modern forensic methods to answer this perennial mystery which fascinates Brits more than it does us..... "George Chapman moved to Jersey City in the USA in 1891, following which several murders of a comparable nature took place, there. He returned to Britain the following year to begin his poison murders. These are so different from the brutal, seemingly random violence of the Ripper that I find it hard to believe that they were all the work of the same man. "Walter Sickert became a suspect in a number of theories , the most well-known that one put forward by Patricia Cornwell, who invested her time and money into state-of-the -art forensic analysis." "Chapman's real name was 'Severin Klosowski', and he was hanged. He was a barber-surgeon from Poland who had been living and working in Cable Street, Whitechapel in 1888."/ The last five words of the book are: "Aaron Kominski is Jack the Ripper."Using modern forensic methods to answer this perennial mystery which fascinates Brits more than it does us..... "George Chapman moved to Jersey City in the USA in 1891, following which several murders of a comparable nature took place, there. He…
Added Mar 05, 2020
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oh the glorious private-prison-industrial-complex!
The War on AlcoholThe War on Alcohol, BookProhibition and the Rise of the American State
by McGirr, LisaBook - 2016
Added Mar 05, 2020
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"The logic of alcohol prohibition, an effort to eradicate the traffic and use of one mind-altering, physically damaging recreational substance, hardened public opinion toward substances widely judged to be more addictive and harmful than liquour." "Al Capone opened a soup kitchen in Cicero to feed the growing armies of the homeless, and gained wide media attention with it." / " The growth of the federal state in pursuit of Prohibition enforcement is, in other words, a classic case of the aggregation of knowledge and power---the attempt to understand human behavior in order to control it. Prohibition constituted the formative years of the federal penal state and shaped the assumptions and logic still driving this nation's domestic and global war on drugs." "Anton Cermak, champion of the urban ethnic bloc...." "The war on alcohol was brought to an end by a powerful combination of mass hostility to the law, elite opinion makers who dared challenge the consensus, and politicians who saw repeal as the road to the White House and even to party realignment. ""The logic of alcohol prohibition, an effort to eradicate the traffic and use of one mind-altering, physically damaging recreational substance, hardened public opinion toward substances widely judged to be more addictive and harmful than liquour." …
Unbroken BrainUnbroken Brain, BookA Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
by Szalavitz, MaiaBook - 2016
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3.5 out of 5 stars
Added Mar 05, 2020
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"Oxytocin is copiously released at orgasm...it helps bind parents to their particular babies. It teaches us who is friendly or at least familiar--and who is not. Unfortunately, it can also do the same for the memory of drugs. It elevates trust and helps autistic people to more accurately detect other people's emotions. It also elevates hostility toward 'them', with studies showing that it can increase racism. It is highly context-dependent.""Oxytocin is copiously released at orgasm...it helps bind parents to their particular babies. It teaches us who is friendly or at least familiar--and who is not. Unfortunately, it can also do the same for the memory of drugs. It elevates trust…
The Anatomy of AddictionThe Anatomy of Addiction, BookWhat Science and Research Tell Us About the True Causes, Best Preventive Techniques, and Most Successful Treatments
by Mohammad, AkikurBook - 2016
Added Mar 05, 2020
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"Alcohol and drug addiction is a chronic disease with a strong genetic disposition." " In addition, it is a brain disease."/ "Addiction is a medical condition, not a moral failing." "While there is a role for behavioral and congnitive counseling in addiction treatment, a program based purely on psychological therapy or the 12-step philosophy is inadequate for treating a disease with genetic and physiological roots.""Alcohol and drug addiction is a chronic disease with a strong genetic disposition." " In addition, it is a brain disease."/ "Addiction is a medical condition, not a moral failing." "While there is a role for behavioral and congnitive counseling…
The Recovery BookThe Recovery Book, BookAnswers to All your Questions About Addiction and Alcoholism and Finding Health and Happiness in Sobriety
by Mooney, Al J.Book - 2014
Added Mar 05, 2020
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" Your Physical Health in the Red Zone--'You might be tempted to jump into a rigorous health and fitness plan so you can get into tip-top shape now that you are sober. But that's not a good idea. Right now you need to focus most of your time and effort on staying sober and working your recovery program.' Common health issues in early recovery. Intellectual problems. Fogginess, short attention span, and other thinking problems are routine in early recovery. They almost always clear up with good recovery. See chapter 14. Active addicts and alcoholics are particularly susceptible to pneumonia (The invading organisms may be bacteria, viruses, or other microorganisms.)" "Panic Attack. Symptoms usually include strong feelings of fear, worry, and tension. Mental discomfort can also set off a flood of physical symptoms. Your body launches a defensive response, an adrenaline surge that leads to a rapid, sometimes irregular heartbeat, along with sweating, increased blood pressure, and problems catching your breath." " Don't Let Down Your Guard. ' A friend in NA, who had been sober for longer than i have, just had a bad slip. He's sober again, but boy, it makes me worry it will happen to me'. It can happen to anybody. There is no cure for addiction, and a fairly large percentage of those who try to get sober have one or more relapses. It's no disgrace, but it can be demoralizing. Remember, though, that it can't take away from what was learned in recovery. In fact, it can teach us a great deal about how to apply that knowledge more successfully the second time around." Whoo! talk about comprehensive! this one's the ticket. i doubt you'll read every word, though. Good Recovery to you." Your Physical Health in the Red Zone--'You might be tempted to jump into a rigorous health and fitness plan so you can get into tip-top shape now that you are sober. But that's not a good idea. Right now you need to focus most of your time and…
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