This is an original Nancy Drew mystery story, illustrated, printed and copyrighted in 1952. Dust cover is a bit tattered, but the inside is very clean and in good condition with the exception of a stamp on the inside title page. Price is a reflection of the condition of book cover. ￼￼

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

The Mystery at the Ski Jump

Trevor Noah

Tremendous  memoir of Trevor Noah, written to be touching, humorous and thought provoking.


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Stories from a South African Childhood

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother--his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother's unconventional, unconditional love. Advance praise for Born a Crime "[A] substantial collection of staggering personal essays . . . Incisive, funny, and vivid, these true tales are anchored to his portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an education and a career for herself--and to have a child with a white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was illegal. . . . [Trevor Noah's] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class."--Booklist (starred review) "A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations."--Kirkus Reviews

Born a Crime

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Classic children’s story by Laura Ingalls Wilder with drawings by Helen Sewall. Plus —this vintage book is in excellent condition, and was taken out of circulation from a library, with library envelope and card still available. Last date checked out was 4/1/66. Copyright is 1933. ￼Perfect for collectors and nostalgic memories. Please note pictures to see slight wear at bottom of cover. ￼

Farmer Boy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Baby’s Christmas 

Two vintage cookbooks, one the CUTCO cookbook, from the cutlery manufacturing company. The focus is on meat and poultry cookery, and it is a fabulous example of a vintage cookbook, copyright 1961. In 
excellent condition with lots of recipes and illustrations. Very minor scuffing on front cover, as photo shows. 

The second cookbook comes from Crisco, the shortening company, and includes recipes for pies, cookies, cakes, and desserts. It is spiral bound, and is illustrated with charming pictures, but lacks front cover and has a little wear.

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In the world of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ednq Eby Heller is the classic writer. This rare cookbook, copyright 1960, with some revisions and later editions offers, classic recipes for such traditional regional dishes as Moravian sugar cakes, fasnaughts, pressed chicken, pot, pie dough, potato filling in much more. 64 pages in all, and in extremely good condition with the tiniest bit of wear around the edges.

Mrs. Heller was an author of five Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbooks, including The Art of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking. She also lectured throughout Pennsylvania on Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, and contributed articles to numerous magazines and wrote a cooking column for Pennsylvania newspapers. She was the Food Editor for the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Life Magazine. She died in 2013 at the age of 94.

Edna Eby Heller’s Dutch Cookbook 

Naoki Higashida

K. A. Yoshida

David Mitchell

Book is by the best selling author of “The Reason I Jump.”



A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism “Essential reading for parents and teachers of those with autism who remain nonverbal.”—Temple Grandin Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international success. Now, in Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a young man living each day with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of travel, and the difficulties of speech. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it’s raining outside. Acutely aware of how strange his behavior can appear to others, he aims throughout to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage society to see people with disabilities as people, not as problems. With an introduction by the bestselling novelist David Mitchell, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 also includes a dreamlike short story Higashida wrote especially for the U.S. edition. Both moving and of practical use, this book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets every challenge with tenacity and good humor. However often he falls down, he always gets back up. Praise for Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 “[Naoki Higashida’s] success as a writer now transcends his diagnosis. . . . His relative isolation—with words as his primary connection to the outside world—has allowed him to fully develop the powers of observation that are necessary for good writing, and he has developed rich, deep perspectives on ideas that many take for granted. . . . The diversity of Higashida’s writing, in both subject and style, fits together like a jigsaw puzzle of life put in place with humor and thoughtfulness.”—The Japan Times “Profound insights about what the struggle of living with autism is really like . . . Once again, the invitation to step inside Higashida’s mind is irresistible.”—London Evening Standard “Naoki Higashida’s lyrical and heartfelt account of his condition is a gift to anyone involved with the same challenges. . . . Higashida shows a delicate regard for the difficulties his condition creates . . . and is adept at explaining his experiences in language that makes sense to neurotypicals.”—The Guardian

Fall down 7 Times Get Up 8

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Picture book with illustrations of paintings by Jacob Lawrence, detailing the migration of African-Americans from the south to the northern states. This is a classic and children’s literature. This book came from a school library, and it stemmed at such on the cover page. There is also a partially torn library pocket on the inside back cover. ￼

An American Story 

The Great Migration

Novel that looks at our relationship with the earth, consciousness and indigenous wisdom.


A Rain of Night Birds

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Psychology book looks at child development and using play to develop trust enjoy and parent child relationships.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships through Attachment-based play Helping parents and children build better relationships through attachment-based play

Theraplay

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Eliana Gil

Eliana’s classic book on play therapy for children who have been abused.

Working with Abused Children

This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution. Traditional techniques of play therapy are reviewed for their application to this population. Throughout, numerous therapeutic aids are described to enhance the child's capacity to communicate verbally or symbolically. To help clinicians translate theory into daily practice, the book presents six detailed clinical vignettes of trauma from among different types of abuse or neglect, including severe parental neglect, sexual abuse, neglect compounded by hospitalization, and one case features a child suffering from multiple personality disorder. Presenting step-by-step guidelines for assessment and intervention, these cases clearly illustrate treatment planning and how to tailor responses to the particular child.

The Healing Power of Play

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Victoria Maizes,

Andrew Weil,

The book is in generally good condition, with some stickiness on the front cover left over from the store sticker. I will let you remove it.

The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child

Presents a mind-body approach to successfully becoming pregnant, offering dietary supplements and exercises that increase fertility as well as a discussion of potential roadblocks and how to eliminate them.

Be Fruitful

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Jason Reynolds

Ibram . Kendi

Book is an excellent condition, with very slight scuffing of the dusk jacket. ￼

A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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Ibram X. Kendi

Sonja Cherry-Paul

In very good condition. This is the children’s version of this recent classic for adults. ￼

Racism, Antiracism, and You

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER



This chapter book edition of the groundbreaking #1 bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America

 

RACE. Uh-oh. The R-word. 

But actually talking about race is one of the most important things to learn how to do.



Adapted from the award-winning, bestselling Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, this book takes readers on a journey from present to past and back again. Kids will discover where racist ideas came from, identify how they impact America today, and meet those who have fought racism with antiracism. Along the way, they'll learn how to identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their own lives. 

 

Ibram X. Kendi's research, Jason Reynolds's and Sonja Cherry-Paul's writing, and Rachelle Baker's art come together in this vital read, enhanced with a glossary, timeline, and more.

Stamped (for Kids)

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Mya Spalter

Brand-new book that combines witchy ideas with personal growth. ￼

A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession

A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically

Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City's oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya will introduce you to some mystical concepts you can use to build spells and rituals that resonate with your own personal style, including:

* Create and maintain altars Even people who aren't spiritually inclined seem to be able to get down with the beneficial function of an altar as a place to model beauty and balance in their lives. It's aspirational. 
* Save your love magic for yourself Because casting a love spell on someone else is pushy and far too easy to mess up. 
* Clean your filthy apartment Fine, maybe you make your bed every day, but Mya's talking about the kind of grime you can't necessarily see. 
* Money magic for need, not greed Hint: It starts with tipping well; it doesn't pay to be miserly when asking the universe for abundance.

Mya reveals the power of colors (Louboutins wouldn't have the same status if their soles were lavender), the keys to banishing unfriendly spirits (with cleansing rituals or even a dance party), and invaluable instructions in the timeless arts of astrology, tarot, and finding a parking spot downtown.

Open up this book and enchant your own life!

Praise for Enchantments

"Hilariously conversational, deceptively deep, and phenomenally illustrated, Enchantments will blow your mind and make you laugh while imparting expert knowledge of witchcraft and why it's so needed today."--Natasha Lyonne, actress and producer

"Imagine that your best friend, a supremely cool, funny, and irreverent person, is also a witch willing to educate and inspire you toward your own witchy practice with humor, sass, and intelligence. This book is magic--literally!"--Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot

"Part memoir, part recipe book, and part poetry collection, Enchantments lets readers in on the great secret of all witchcraft--that being a witch is about being free to be yourself."--Dorothea Lasky, author of Milk and co-creator of Astro Poets

"We can all use more magic in our lives in these trying times, and Enchantments will help us get started."--Kimya Dawson, singer/songwriter, The Moldy Peaches

Enchantments

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Jordan Shapiro

Parenting guide for raising children in the 21st century. ￼

Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World

A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it. In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will be able to create new, better models of global citizenship, connection, and community. Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to parent and educate children effectively in a connected world, and provides tools and techniques for using technology to engage with kids and help them learn and grow. He compares this moment in time to other great technological revolutions in humanity's past and presents entertaining micro-histories of cultural fixtures: the sandbox, finger painting, the family dinner, and more. But most importantly, The New Childhood paints a timely, inspiring and positive picture of today's children, recognizing that they are poised to create a progressive, diverse, meaningful, and hyper-connected world that today's adults can only barely imagine.

The New Childhood

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Ellen Gustafson

This book, published by Rodale, offers solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, from hunger to healthcare costs from corruption to cancer from terrorism to type 2 diabetes, all related to the food we put on our plate. ￼

How we can transform the global food system by changing what's on our dinner plates The implausible truth: Over one billion people in the world are hungry and over one billion are overweight. Far from complete opposites, hunger and obesity are in fact different manifestations of the same problem: It's increasingly difficult to find and eat nutritious food. By examining the global industrial food system using the deceptively simple template of a classic American dinner, We the Eaters not only outlines the root causes for this bizarre and troubling dichotomy, but also provides a blueprint of actionable solutions—solutions that could start with changing out just a single item on your plate. From your burger to your soda, Gustafson unpacks how even the hyper-local can cause worldwide ripples. For instance: American agricultural policy promoting corn and soybeans in beef farming means we feed more to cows than to hungry people. This is compounded by the environmental cost of factory livestock farming, rising obesity rates, and the false economics of unhealthily high meat consumption. The answer? Eat a hamburger; just make it a smaller, sustainably raised, grass-fed one. Gustafson—a young entrepreneur, foreign policy expert, and food policy advocate—delivers a wake-up call that will inspire even the most passive reader to take action. We can love our food and our country while being better stewards of our system and our health. We the Eaters is nothing short of a manifesto: If we change dinner, we can change the world.

We the Eaters

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Geneen Roth

20th anniversary edition of the classic book by Geneen Roth. ￼

The Experience of Compulsive Eating

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those she has met during this time have shared stories that are both heartrending and inspiring, which Roth has gathered for this unique book. Twenty years after its original publication, Feeding the Hungry Heart continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food. With contributions from Ronda Slater, Sylvia Gillett, Carolyn Janik, Janet Robyns, Sharon Sperling, Lyn Lifshin, Linda Ostreicher, Sondra Spatt Olsen, Jill Jeffery, Penny Skillman, Leslie Lawrence, Juneil Parmenter, Lisa Wagner, Joan P. Campbell, Micki Seltzer, Rita Garitano, Barbara Florio Graham, Linda Myer, Laura Fraser, Rachel Lawrence, Florinda Colavin, and other Breaking Free workshop participants.

Feeding the Hungry Heart

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Mark Epstein

Highly praised book by authors of spiritual books and spiritual teachers.

A Guide to Getting over Yourself

"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time."--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth 

Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free rein, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.

With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, grounded in two traditions devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe necessary for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively on his own experience and that of his patients. While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility of Western psychotherapy, they become something more: a road map for spiritual and psychological growth, a way of dealing with the intractable problem of the ego. Breaking down the wall between East and West, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist's practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the first time applied in the context of psychotherapy.

Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, Epstein's advice can be used by all--each in his or her own way--and will provide wise counsel in a confusing world. After all, as he says, "Our egos can use all the help they can get."

Advice Not Given

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Stephen Amidon

Thomas Amidon

The authors beautifully offer the scientific threads of their story without any textbook-like dryness. Both interesting and educational. ￼

A Biography of the Human Heart

The Sublime Engine

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Jess Shatkin

Author is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine
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Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe

A groundbreaking, research-based guide that sheds new light on why young people make dangerous choices--and offers solutions that work Texting while driving. Binge-drinking. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about their teen. But most of the advice parents and educators hear about teens is outdated and unscientific--and simply doesn't work. Acclaimed adolescent psychiatrist and educator Jess Shatkin brings more than two decades' worth of research and clinical experience to the subject, along with cutting-edge findings from brain science, evolutionary psychology, game theory, and other disciplines -- plus a widely curious mind and the perspective of a concerned dad himself. Using science and stories, fresh analogies, clinical anecdotes, and research-based observations, Shatkin explains: * Why "scared straight," adult logic, and draconian punishment don't work * Why the teen brain is "born to be wild"--shaped by evolution to explore and take risks * The surprising role of brain development, hormones, peer pressure, screen time, and other key factors * What parents and teachers can do--in everyday interactions, teachable moments, and specially chosen activities and outings--to work with teens' need for risk, rewards and social acceptance, not against it. “Presents new research, as well as insights as a clinician and a father….This book is a clear argument to stop putting ourselves in our children’s shoes, and to try putting ourselves in their minds, instead.” –The Washington Post “With stories (personal and professional), neuroscience and cognition, psychology and clinical experience Dr. Shatkin offers an abundance of understandable, engaging and actionable information. He explains why and shows how. We can reduce risk in the adolescents we love and teach, but only if we know to how to do so and then do it. Born To Be Wild shows us the way to succeed.” --Psychology Today Winner, National Parenting Product Award 2017

Born to Be Wild

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Thomas R. Golden

The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing

Acclaimed by experts Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Hope Edelman, Swallowed by a Snake brings hope and understanding to those who have experienced a loss. This book gives readers the helpful and healing information that psychotherapist Tom Golden teaches health care professionals in the U.S. and Canada. In clear, accessible language, Golden shows how the masculine gift is used by both men and women and reveals the hidden masculine ways of healing that so often go unnoticed and under-utilized. Golden draws upon his 20 years of clinical experience in revealing this powerful mode of healing that is often overlooked. Helpful to both men and women, Swallowed by a Snake serves as a map to healing and offers new ways to understand our uniqueness and our difference as it guides us through the trauma of loss on a path toward transformation. -- "I find this material interesting and stimulating and feel it will fill a void in the literature about grief and gender differences. The material presents a fresh look into the uniqueness of a man's grief in a way that both men and women will find extremely helpful", -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., On Death and Dying

Swallowed by a Snake

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Kurt Newman

In this memoir, a pediatrician talks about inspiring stories of children he has treated and the tenacity and courage of children and doctors under difficult circumstances. He also advocates for the importance of prioritizing ￼mental health for children. 

A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine

"A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons - the visionary head of Children's National - for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gwande. Anyone who has seen a child recover from a deep wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults. And yet children are often treated as an afterthought by the medical establishment and shunted off to doctors who specialize in treating adults. Will an anesthesiologist accustomed to treating older patients know how best to handle a toddler going under for the first time? If your soccer-playing daughter suffers a concussion, should you take her to the nearest ER--or drive further to seek out doctors who specialize in treating kids? In this deeply inspiring memoir Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation's top children's hospitals to make the case that children are more than miniature adults. Through the story of his own career and deeply moving accounts of the brave kids he has treated over the years (and their equally brave and determined parents) he reveals the revolution that is taking place in pediatric medicine"--

Healing Children

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Jon Bailey

Mary Burch

Updated third edition is a guide to understanding and implementing the newly revised behavior analyst certification board professional ethical compliance code.

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This fully-updated third edition of Jon Bailey and Mary Burch's bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide to understanding and implementing the newly-revised Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Professional and Ethical Compliance Code. Featured in this new edition are case studies drawn from the author's real-world practice with hints to guide readers toward the ethical 'solution' and revised chapters, including how this new edition evolved alongside the revised Code and tips for succeeding in your first job as a certified behavior analyst. The complete, revised BACB Professional and Ethical Compliance Code is included as an appendix. This third edition improves upon what has become a go-to resource for behavior analysts in training and in practice.
 

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