Notes from the Nervous Breakdown Lane
Author : Ken Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780060960148
Author : Ken Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780060960148
Author : Brian Konradt
Publisher : Writing Career Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0979258200
FREELANCE POKER WRITING: How to Make Money Writing for the Gaming Industry is the first book showing freelance writers how to make money writing for the casino/gaming industry. Author Brian Konradt, a professional freelance writer with over a decade of experience, introduces writers to the exciting and thrilling world of poker and gaming. He shows readers step-by-step how to cover poker tournaments, poker events, and poker-related topics, and then sell what they write to magazines, newspapers, websites, companies and other media outlets in the gaming industry. Readers will meet many professional freelance writers and poker players who share their insight, advice and experiences. Are you ready to take the plunge into the exciting world of freelance poker writing?
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
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Author : Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307569225
The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher’s landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys. In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting—sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Statistics point to an alarming number of young boys at high risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and loneliness. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they’re not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that “cool” equals macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of “mother blame,” “boy biology,” and "testosterone,” Kindlon and Thompson shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive—the emotional miseducation of boys. Through moving case studies and cutting-edge research, Raising Cain paints a portrait of boys systematically steered away from their emotional lives by adults and the peer “culture of cruelty”—boys who receive little encouragement to develop qualities such as compassion, sensitivity, and warmth. The good news is that this doesn't have to happen. There is much we can do to prevent it. Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy—giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth. Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men.
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Page : 3344 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1986
Category : American literature
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A world list of books in the English language.
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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literature
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Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literature
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Author : Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1987-05
Category : Art
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Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1982130849
Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolized a significant social change that became the basis of the acclaimed bestseller, Bowling Alone, which The Washington Post called “a very important book” and Putnam, “the de Tocqueville of our generation.” Bowling Alone surveyed in detail Americans’ changing behavior over the decades, showing how we had become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether it’s with the PTA, church, clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. In the revised edition of his classic work, Putnam shows how our shrinking access to the “social capital” that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing still poses a serious threat to our civic and personal health, and how these consequences have a new resonance for our divided country today. He includes critical new material on the pervasive influence of social media and the internet, which has introduced previously unthinkable opportunities for social connection—as well as unprecedented levels of alienation and isolation. At the time of its publication, Putnam’s then-groundbreaking work showed how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction, and how the loss of social capital is felt in critical ways, acting as a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, and affecting our health in other ways. While the ways in which we connect, or become disconnected, have changed over the decades, his central argument remains as powerful and urgent as ever: mending our frayed social capital is key to preserving the very fabric of our society.