Book Description
Photographs and simple, levelled text compare and contrast modern and historical activities in a child-friendly format, making this a great took for discussing how life has changed over the years.
Author : Rebecca Rissman
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1406271497
Photographs and simple, levelled text compare and contrast modern and historical activities in a child-friendly format, making this a great took for discussing how life has changed over the years.
Author : Carlin Flora
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0385535449
Discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes. Why is dinner with friends often more laughter filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say it’s because we choose our friends, it’s also because we expect less of them than we do of relatives. While we’re busy scrutinizing our romantic relationships and family dramas, our friends are quietly but strongly influencing everything from the articles we read to our weight fluctuations, from our sex lives to our overall happiness levels. Evolutionary psychologists have long theorized that friendship has roots in our early dependence on others for survival. These days, we still cherish friends but tend to undervalue their role in our lives. However, the skills one needs to make good friends are among the very skills that lead to success in life, and scientific research has recently exploded with insights about the meaningful and enduring ways friendships influence us. With people marrying later—and often not at all—and more families having just one child, these relationships may be gaining in importance. The evidence even suggests that at times friends have a greater hand in our development and well-being than do our romantic partners and relatives. Friends see each other through the process of growing up, shape each other’s interests and outlooks, and, painful though it may be, expose each other’s rough edges. Childhood and adolescence, in particular, are marked by the need to create distance between oneself and one’s parents while forging a unique identity within a group of peers, but friends continue to influence us, in ways big and small, straight through old age. Perpetually busy parents who turn to friends—for intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and a good dose of merriment—find a perfect outlet to relieve the pressures of raising children. In the office setting, talking to a friend for just a few minutes can temporarily boost one’s memory. While we romanticize the idea of the lone genius, friendship often spurs creativity in the arts and sciences. And in recent studies, having close friends was found to reduce a person’s risk of death from breast cancer and coronary disease, while having a spouse was not. Friendfluence surveys online-only pals, friend breakups, the power of social networks, envy, peer pressure, the dark side of amicable ties, and many other varieties of friendship. Told with warmth, scientific rigor, and a dash of humor, Friendfluence not only illuminates and interprets the science but draws on clinical psychology and philosophy to help readers evaluate and navigate their own important friendships.
Author : Richelle E. Goodrich
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781545410714
Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year is the next in a collection of inspirational books by American author and novelist, Richelle E. Goodrich. In the same style as Smile Anyway and Making Wishes, Slaying Dragons offers readers original daily quotes, poems, and an occasional story. Ponder meaningful quotes like the popular following: "There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up." "When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire." "I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character." "Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless." "When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious." "Habits grow like dragons if you feed them." This book was written to entertain, inspire, and motivate individuals on a daily basis.
Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1843317818
'Friends and Enemies' delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
Author : Friends United Meeting (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 1992*
Category :
ISBN :
Author : David Richo
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834823179
The popular author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships reveals how past trauma can negatively impact our present-day relationships—and offers guidance on what to do about it We all have a tendency to transfer potent feelings, needs, expectations, and beliefs from childhood or from former relationships onto the people in our daily lives, whether they are our intimate partners, friends, or acquaintances. When the Past Is Present helps us to become more aware of the ways we slip into the past so that we can identify our emotional baggage and take steps to unpack it and put it where it belongs. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo helps readers to: • Understand how the wounds of childhood become exposed in adult relationships—and why this is a gift • Identify and heal the emotional wounds we carry over from the past so that they won’t sabotage present-day relationships • Recognize how strong attractions and aversions to people in the present can be signals of our own unfinished business • Use mindfulness to stay in the present moment and cultivate authentic intimacy Full of practical guidance, When the Past is Present will teach you how to free yourself from old wounds and destructive behavioral partners so you can foster healthier, happier relationships.
Author : Karen McCombie
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
ISBN : 9781407117614
Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks... The first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable ALLY'S WORLD series.
Author : Richard Henry Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer Castle
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545942543
From John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's "bromance" to Taylor Swift's unstoppable squad, Famous Friends takes readers inside some of the most celebrated friendships throughout history and today. Did you know that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, friends and political rivals, died only hours apart from each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? Or that famed magician Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle were besties until a seance gone wrong ruined their friendship? Famous Friends explores fascinating stories like these to find out what happens when someone who is really famous becomes friends with someone ELSE who's really famous. Famous Friends brings history to life with a funny and conversational tone, color photos, and a dynamic design. Sidebars with historical context help position each friendship in its time period as readers travel from the early days of the American colonies to today's biggest celebrity pairings. From the original "bromance" to #squadgoals, get ready to learn about the coolest friendships of all time.
Author : Shirley Glass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1416586407
One of the world’s leading experts on infidelity provides a step-by-step guide through the process of infidelity—from suspicion and revelation to healing, and provides profound, practical guidance to prevent infidelity and, if it happens, recover and heal from it. You’re right to be cautious when you hear these words: “I’m telling you, we’re just friends.” Good people in good marriages are having affairs. The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for “friendships” that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs. Yet you can protect your relationship from emotional or sexual betrayal by recognizing the red flags that mark the stages of slipping into an improper, dangerous intimacy that can threaten your marriage.