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1	In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development more books like this by Carol Gilligan Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.96! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Good Divorce more books like this by Constance R Ahrons, PH.D. An internationally acclaimed social scientist and family therapist offers timely and welcome news for the millions of separated and divorced parents: in more than 50 percent of divorces today, couples succeed in preserving their families for their children. This book provides practical guidelines for raising healthy, well-adjusted children during ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Adaptation to Life more books like this by George E Vaillant, M.D. George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, neurotic, immature, or psychotic, and illustrates, with case histories, each method of coping. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.68! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Second Chances: Men, Women and Children a Decade After Divorce more books like this by Judith S Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee A landmark work that reveals enormous shifts in some of this country's most fundamental values--the values by which the worth of human relationships, of love, of the family itself is measured. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality more books like this by Martin S Weinberg, Colin J Williams, Douglas W Pryor For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds more books like this by Prof. Richard J Light The stories that Harvard students shared with Richard Light and his colleagues about their experiences of inspiration, frustration, and discovery fill the book with spirit. Some of the anecdotes are funny, some are moving, and some are surprising. Many are wise - especially about choosing classes, talking productively with advisors, improving ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children more books like this by Betty Hart, Todd R Risley This major new book describes the parent-child interactions of the language acquisition years, revealing differences in the experiences of one- and two-year-olds from families across a spectrum of socioeconomic status. The authors show how the amount of time parents spend talking to their children in the early years of life directly influences ... see all copies from $18.98! new only from $28.95! \| SVS
8	Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients more books like this by Robert Akeret After 35 years as a psychotherapist in New York, Robert Akeret took his van on a long journey in an attempt to answer a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients' lives? Did Charles, who fell madly in love with a circus polar bear, resist his fatal psychosexual attraction? Did Sasha, a prize-winning French novelist, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships more books like this by Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, Amy M Sullivan More than any other psychologist, Carol Gilligan has helped us to hear girls' voices just when they seem to be blurring and fading or becoming disruptive during the passage into womanhood. When adolescent girls--once assured and resilient--silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed, and develop eating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart more books like this by Constance R Ahrons, PH.D. This book provides timely and welcome news: in more than fifty per cent of divorces today, couples succeed in dissolving their marriages, yet preserving their families. Constance Ahrons examines the complex dilemmas couples face as they separate as spouses while remaining connected as parents, and once and for all dispels the myth that divorce ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time more books like this by Erik Homburger Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick, Joan Mowat Erikson Erik H. Erikson's concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each person progresses. The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the tensions and rebalance the resulting strengths of all the earlier stages in an attempt to establish an integrity of the self that, while drawing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.60! \| SVS
12 view cover	Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure more books like this by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Samuel Whalen (Editor), Kevin Rathunde (Editor) Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, ... see all copies from $11.20! new only from $14.89! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Transformed by the Light: The Powerful Effect of Near-Death Experiences on People's Lives more books like this by Melvin Morse, M.D., Paul Perry In "Closer to the Light", Dr Morse explored the near-death experiences of child survivors. Now he presents testimony from adults which he believes may serve to alter people's views on death and dying. The book sets out to prove that those who return from the brink of death are profoundly changed for the better, both spiritually and physically, for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.05! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples more books like this by Carolyn Pape Cowan, Philip A Cowan What happens to a couple's relationship when baby makes three? Why do some relationships improve and other falter? Based on a 10 year study of 100 pairs of first-time parents, this book charts the tumultuous changes that greet the arrival of a first child, one of the most common but least understood of life's passages. Drawing on the candid and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions
15 view cover	Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness more books like this by Barbara A Kerr, PhD Why do gifted and talented girls so often fail to realize their potential as they reach adolescence and adulthood? This outstanding book summarizes research on gifted girls, presents biographies of eminent women and examines the current educational and family milieu. From this, Dr. Kerr gives practical advice to parents, teachers and policy-makers ... see all copies from $4.61! new only from $17.88! \| SVS
16 view cover	Transformed by the Light more books like this by Melvin Morse, M.D., Paul Perry This provocative bestseller by the authors of Closer to the Light details the powerful effect of near-death experiences on people's lives. Based on the results of the largest such study ever done, Morse and Perry have found that people return from the brink of death profoundly changed for the better--spiritually and physically. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited more books like this by George E Vaillant, M.D. This text, first published in 1983, examines the questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600 individuals followed for over 40 years, Vaillant's ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $25.60! \| SVS
18 view cover	More Than a Labour of Love: Three Generations of Women's Work in the Home more books like this by Meg Luxton see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	The New Market Leaders: Whos Winning and How in the Battle for Customers more books like this by Fred Wiersema In the decade since Fred Wiersema coauthored the #1 bestseller "The" "Discipline of Market Leaders," a momentous shift has occured. We have entered an age of customer scarcity--an age in which exciting, often unorthodox companies are revolutionizing the global marketplace. In this path-cutting work, Wiersema provides new benchmarks for ranking ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Revising Herself: The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife more books like this by Dr. Ruthellen Josselson In 1972, Josselson was a young pscyhologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent femininst movement. Selecting at random 30 women in their last year of college, Josselson undertook a groundbreaking story that would follow these women over the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.41! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Vulnerability to Psychopathology: Risk Across the Lifespan more books like this by Rick E Ingram, PhD (Editor), Joseph M Price (Editor) Vulnerability has become the focal point of much theory and research in the study of psychopathology. Until now, however, work on child and adult disorders has largely been conducted separately, with little cross-pollination of knowledge on risk factors across the lifespan. This important work brings together leading clinical researchers to lay ... see all copies from $8.85! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
22 view cover	Hyperactive Children Grown Up, Second Edition: ADHD in Children, Adolescents, and Adults more books like this by Dr. Gabrielle Weiss, Lily Trockenberg Hechtman This second edition of a classic volume demonstrates that fifty percent of hyperactive children continue to face problems of impulsivity, restlessness, low self?esteem, and social skill deficits when they become adults. Providing a complete developmental analysis of the symptoms evinced from infanc see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.15! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect: Issues and Research more books like this by Raymond H Starr (Editor), Donald A Wolfe (Editor), David A Wolfe (Editor) It is now commonly recognized that child abuse and neglect can be fully understood only through the use of longitudinal research methods--difficult, expensive, and time-consuming though their application may be. This book reviews the findings from current longitudinal research and also serves as an authoritative guide to the complex methodologic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $56.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life more books like this by Robert J Sampson, John H Laub This explanation of crime and deviance over the life course is based on the re-analysis of a classic set of data: Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood. More than five years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off 60 cartons of the Gluecks' data that had been ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $22.70! \| SVS
25	The Sissy Boy Syndrome: The Development of Homosexuality more books like this by Richard Green see all copies from $5.97! new only from $20.00! \| signed copies \| first editions

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