Experienced psychologists Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson posit that in American culture, boys "are systematically steered away from their emotional lives toward silence, solitude, and distrust." Their exploration of how this occurs and the painful consequences that can follow covers extensive ground, including chapters on education, discipline, ...
Over the past centuries, researchers have found bones and articrafts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed, ignored or forgotten these remarkable facts. Why? Because they contradict dominant views of human origins and antiquity. Evolutionary prejudices, deeply held ...
This study explores the role that friendship plays in children's lives. Topics covered include the differences between friendship and popularity, why cliques form, and the difference in the ways boys and girls deal with intimacy and commitment.
This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide shows how a boy's inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, providing expert advice on his developmental, psychological, social, and academic life.
Based on the outpouring of responses to his bestselling "Raising Cain", Thompson now answers the 100 most-asked questions about raising sons. Topics include friendship, sports, money, grades, peer pressure, electronics and video games, cruelty, body image, death and illness, divorce, ADD and ADHD, dating, and drugs. (Parenting)
Amanda worries Thanksgiving will never be the same after her Grandmother's death. The little girl remembers a family tradition of pulling wishbones that have been saved throughout the year--and everyone discovers the power and comfort embedded in heritage. Color illustrations throughout.
The "New York Daily News" Sports Investigative Team has written more than just the story of the rise and fall of seasoned pitcher Roger Clemens, it has also penned the definitive book on corruption and the steroids era in Major League Baseball.
Over the past two centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people existed on earth millions of years ago. Deploying an unexpectedly great number of suppressed but convincing facts, Cremo and Thompson challenge readers to rethink their understanding of human origins, identity and destiny. 69 illustrations.
Intended for the concerned relatives of those afflicted with Alzheimer's, this book introduces a humanistic approach to understanding all aspects of the disease. The authors discuss medical advances and alternative therapies for Alzheimer's patients, and provide coping strategies for emotionally involved caregivers. Additionally, profiles of ...
Two award-winning sports journalists tell the astonishing story of one of the country's most prized icons--the legendary Honus Wagner baseball card--and bring to light the myths, lore, rumors, and facts that have shaped this card's legend.
The swath of difficulties children face in social situations, from bullying and name-calling to rejection and socialization is the focus of this primer for parents, with specific tips on how to deal with these issues.
Hidden History is a detective novel as much as a scholarly tour de force. But the murder is not the butler. Neither is the victim a rich old man with many heirs. The victim is man himself, and the role of the assassin is played by numerous scientists. Dr. Michael Rothstein, Politiken Newspaper, Denmark
From the co-author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Raising Cain" comes the first comprehensive guide to a boy's developmental, psychological, social, and academic life, spanning infancy to manhood.
The push for students to excel at school and get into the best colleges has never been more intense. In this invaluable new book, the" "bestselling co-author of "Raising Cain" addresses America's performance-driven obsession with the accomplishments of its kids-and provides a deeply humane response. "How was school?" These three words contain a ...
The renowned child psychologist and author of "Raising Cain" insightfully examines the lives of children and offers helpful advice on how parents should handle students during their critical school years.
Becoming a Master Manager is an effective tool for stimulating thinking and building management skills. The book takes you through some of the social and intellectual challenges that managers encounter everyday, the most prominent being pulled by competing demands and having to play many roles simultaneously. This book uses the Competing Values ...
Monet was the most remarkable of all the Impressionist landscape painters. And perhaps at no point in his career was his work more varied than in the years between 1878 and 1883. During this time he produced some 300 paintings, many of them are amongst his finest works. His painting encompassed motifs of village and river, cliff and wave, as well ...
A brilliant collection, this book telescopes six decades of Thompson's best writings into one volume. Containing many "lost" pieces, it is a compendium of suspense from the pulp magazines of the '20s to his last efforts in the '70s. Fine.
From Dagwood to Dilbert, the past fifty years haven't seen much evolution in our attitudes toward work. Too many of us still believe that our work selves and our real selves, our professional and personal lives, are separate entities. This book is about how that concept is slowly, but surely, changing. It is about why it is changing. And, most ...
The international star and creator of "Lord of the Dance" and "Celtic Tiger" Irish step dancing shows pens a no-holds-barred autobiography that reveals the person, the passion, and the drama behind his astounding rise to stardom.
Leading young scientists, many holding prestigious Royal Society Research Fellowships, describe their research and give their visions of the future. Re-written in a popular and well illustrated style, the articles are derived from scholarly and authoritative papers published in a special Millennium Issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical ...
Extensively illustrated with photographs, plans and period engravings, Michael Thompson's book examines the decline of the castle as both fortification and seigneurial residence over the two and a half centuries that preceded the Civil War. In general, this was a period in which function played less and less part and display - even fantasy - ever ...
Intended to provide students with access to the wide range of materials needed for their courses, this book combines the leading cases with legal, political and philosophical materials, as well as notes and questions for discussion. This revised and updated edition contains extracts from the Scott Report on "Arms to Iraq", as well as a new section ...
The interviews with the director Martin Scorsese which make up this book reveal a man with an unbridled passion for film. This revised edition contains material on "GoodFellas", "Cape Fear", "The Age of Innocence", and other projects up to "Casino".
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