Wendon Blake

Everything you need to know to master the skills of drawing. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

Offers step-by-step demonstrations of how to create landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, and introduces basic tools and techniques for working with pencil, chalk, and charcoal

Getting Started in Drawing

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Brenda Hoddinott

Pick up the drawing basics and start expressing yourself

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

On a simple piece of paper, a fierce bird of prey can swoop down upon its terrified victim, an adoring father can share laughter with the infant daughter cradled in his arms, raindrops can glisten on the hood of a vintage sports car, a lightening bolt can cut across the night, offering a glimpse of trees ominously silhouetted against the blackness. Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn drawing basics. Its author, professional illustrator and long-time art educator Brenda Hoddinott, has a simple philosophy-that only you can teach you to draw. With that in mind, she arms you with the tools you need to explore the basics and then coaches you through 30 hands-on drawing projects. You'll quickly

 * Conquer the basics of line and shading
 * Develop an eye for basic shapes and contours
 * Discover how to create the illusion of three dimensions
 * Render still-life subjects and landscapes
 * Bring animals and people to vivid life on the page

Brenda helps you tune into your right brain and see the world as an artist does. You'll discover how to break things down into basic lines and shapes and then reassemble them on the page. Other topics covered include:

 * Understanding and exercising the basic skills of drawing lines and shapes, adding life and depth with shading, and rendering textures
 * Mastering the fundamentals of composition and planning drawings
 * Creating lifelike doodles and cartoon characters
 * Drawing the natural environment including both plants and animals
 * Keeping a sketchbook and drawing from memory
 * Drawing people, starting with babies and exploring the human face from childhood to old age

It's never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies put you on the road of discovery and self-expression through drawing.

Drawing for Dummies

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Betty Edwards

An inspirational and practical guide to increasing your creative powers

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A guide to innovation, invention, imagination, and creativity.

Drawing on the Artist Within

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Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Brenna Hafer Bry

Cover is bent. The rest of the book is in excellent shape. 

Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions

This volume provides the skills practitioners need to conduct family therapy sessions in the home, school, and community. The authors demonstrate how meetings outside of the traditional office setting can enable therapists to intervene actively in the various systems that affect clients' lives. This multisystems approach can be particularly useful when working with poor and ethnic minority families, whose support networks may include extended family, school personnel, and members of the "church family." Practitioners learn how to utilize out-of-office sessions to meet the people who are influential in clients' lives; observe the life realities of children, adolescents, and parents; and identify resources that can be mobilized to produce change. Detailed strategies are presented to help families navigate the overlapping demands of multiple agencies and institutions and to manage and prevent such problems as substance abuse, school drop-out, and child abuse. Throughout, therapeutic and ethical guidelines are illustrated by extensive clinical case material. The book is ideal for those already doing home-based work, as well as those who would like to incorporate it into their practice.

Reaching Out in Family Therapy

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Matthew D. Selekman

A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach

A detailed treatment protocol for working with self-harming adolescents and young adults.

The Adolescent and Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual

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Scholastic

Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning-And Living

This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year!

Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

The Mindup Curriculum - Grades Prek-2

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Monica McGoldrick

Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice

The editor of the classic "Ethnicity and Family Therapy" explores the ways that clients' lives, and family therapy itself, are constrained by larger forces of racial, cultural, sexual, and class-based inequality. This groundbreaking volume expands the boundaries of the field and works toward truly inclusive clinical practice. Integrating theoretical exposition, case studies, and autobiographical narratives, the book offers concrete suggestions for improving family therapy.

Re-Visioning Family Therapy

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Ernie J. Zelinski

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Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy life to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support. World-class author and innovator Ernie J. Zelinski guides you to: Gain courage to take early retirement; in fact, the earlier the better. Put money in proper perspective so that you don't need a million dollars to retire. Generate purpose in your retirement life with meaningful creative pursuits. Follow your dreams instead of someone else's. Take charge of your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Better envision you retirement goals including where you want to live. Above all, make your retirement years the best time of your life. What sets this retirement book apart from all the others is its holistic approach to the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement. This international bestseller (over 110,000 copies sold in its first edition) goes way beyond the numbers that is often the main focus of retirement planning in most retirement books. There are many ingredients of a happy retirement and several retirement planning tools that help retirees plan for their retirement in new and more meaningful ways. One of the most powerful tools is The Get-a-Life Tree that you won't find in any other retirement books. In short, the retirement wisdom in this book will prove to be much more important than how much money you have saved. How to Retire Happy Wild, and Free helps readers create an active, satisfying, and happy retirement in a way such that they don't need a million dollars to retire."

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

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Gabrielle Bernstein

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living a Better Life

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step process to release the beliefs that hold you back from living a better life. This six-step practice offers many promises. Petty resentments will disappear, compassion will replace attack, the energy of resistance will transform into freedom and you’ll feel more peace and happiness than you’ve ever known. I can testify to these results because I’ve lived them. I’ve never felt more freedom and joy than I have when writing and practicing these steps. My commitment to healing my own relationship to judgment has changed my life in profound ways. My awareness of my judgment has helped me become a more mindful and conscious person. My willingness to heal these perceptions has set me free. I have been able to let go of resentments and jealousies, I can face pain with curiosity and love, and I forgive others and myself much more easily. Best of all, I have a healthy relationship to judgment so that I can witness when it shows up and I can use these steps to quickly return to love. The Judgment Detox is an interactive six-step process that calls on spiritual principles from the text A Course in Miracles, Kundalini yoga, the Emotional Freedom Technique (aka Tapping), meditation, prayer and metaphysical teachings. I’ve demystified these principles to make them easy to commit to and apply in your daily life. Each lesson builds upon the next to support true healing. When you commit to following the process and become willing to let go, judgment, pain and suffering will begin to dissolve. And the miracles will keep coming. Once you begin to feel better you start to release your resistance to love. The more you practice these steps, the more love enters into your consciousness and into your energetic vibration. When you’re in harmony with love, you receive more of what you want. Your energy attracts its likeness. So when you shift your energy from defensive judgment to free-flowing love your life gets awesome. You’ll attract exactly what you need, your relationships will heal, your health will improve and you’ll feel safer and more secure. One loving thought at a time creates a miracle. Follow these steps to clear all blocks, spread more love and live a miraculous life.

Judgment Detox

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Katherine Heiny

A Novel

"A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family from the celebrated author of Standard Deviation"--

Early Morning Riser

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#paperback #nonfiction #historical #truecrime  #nationalbookaward

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

The Devil in the White City

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A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

The Color of Law

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A Memoir with Recipes from an American Family

A delicious new memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

A family history peppered with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a humorous and flavorful tale spanning three generations as Kathleen Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her New York Times bestseller, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Brimming with tasty anecdotes about Uncle Clarence's divine cornflake-crusted fried chicken, Grandpa Charles's spicy San Antonio chili, and Grandma Inez's birthday-only cinnamon rolls, Flinn--think Ruth Reichl topped with a dollop of Julia Child--shows how meals can be memories, and how cooking can be communication. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good will inspire readers (and book clubs) to reminisce about their own childhoods--and spend time in their kitchens making new memories of their own.

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

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Useful Tools for Finding the Answers Within

You're at a fork in the road. Now what? It may surprise you, but according to Meg Lundstrom, you already have the answer, if you just know how to tap your inner-guidance system. With What to Do When You Can't Decide, she teaches us three effective divining tools for accessing our innate wisdom:

 * "Pendling," a method that uses a handheld instrument
 * "The Chits," an easy pen-and-paper technique
 * "Muscle testing," an on-the-spot technique that allows your fingers to "do the talking"

Bypassing the conscious mind to access your deeper subconscious intelligence, these techniques can help you make reliable decisions, end second-guessing, and enhance the flow in your life. Includes practical exercises, a troubleshooting guide, and advanced techniques for deciding what to do in any situation.

What to Do When You Can't Decide

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#hardcover 

The Language God Longs for Us to Speak

In this extraordinary book, Dr. Larry Crabb introduces a revolutionary way for Christians to experience God. "Soul talk" happens when two Christians talk to each other in a way that results in their passion for God being stirred, ignited, and released.

Soul Talk

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A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger

Using activities and interactive projects, instructs readers on ways to control angry thoughts and actions.

What to Do When Your Temper Flares

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#paperback #educational #teenselfhelp #personalworkbook

Personal Workbook

A companion to The 6 Most Important Decisions You're Ever Make counsels teens on how to work with their parents and take an active role in making responsible choices regarding such issues as sex, drugs, and education. Original. 75,000 first printing.

The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make

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#paperback #childpsychotherapy #treatmentplans #mentalhealthprofessionals

The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition provides treatment planning guidelines and an array of pre-written treatment plan components for behavioral and psychological problems, including blended family problems, children of divorce, ADHD, attachment disorder, academic problems, and speech and language disorders. Clinicians with adult clients will find this up-to-date revision an invaluable resource.

The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner

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Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being

Winner of the 2013 Books for a Better Life Acorda Wellness Award and the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award

Resilience is the ability to face and handle life's challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry. But science is now revealing that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired, andBouncing Back shows us how. With powerful, time-tested exercises, Linda Graham guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains.

Bouncing Back

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40 Days to a Lean, Calm, Energized, and Happy Self





The multiple New York Times bestselling author and Harvard-MIT educated women's health expert delivers a revolutionary 40-day program to reconnect the brain and body to prevent and reverse the myriad symptoms and diseases afflicting millions of women.



Do you struggle to lose weight or to fall and stay asleep at night

Do you feel lethargic and a depressed

Do you endure irregularity or other digestive problems

Do you want to feel better and happier and to maximize your health and longevity

Dr. Sara Gottfried has the answer. Your health problems, she reveals, are in your head--caused by a malfunction in the connection between your brain and your body. Brain health is a powerful indicator of overall health and well-being. While our thoughts can affect our physical health, what we do to our body also has a lasting impact on our brains. When you ignore your brain-body symptoms, you raise your risk of serious cognitive decline, which leads to chronic health problems. It's a vicious cycle, but it can be broken, Gottfried argues. In Brain Body Diet she shows how brain body health is the key to reversing a myriad of chronic symptoms--empowering you to live up to our potential and achieve the lasting health you desire.

The relationship between the body and the brain is necessary to function at our best today and for the rest of our lives. Designed for the female brain--which is different from the male brain--her breakthrough protocol will help you lose weight, get off harmful prescription medications, boost energy and mental functioning, and alleviate depression and anxiety in less than six weeks. Filled with incredible success stories, the most up-to-date scientific research, and the rich insights that are the hallmarks of her previous bestsellers, Brain Body Diet will completely change the way you look at your life and help you achieve total body health.

Brain Body Diet

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Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise

World-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind returns with a revelatory new look at the neuroscience of early childhood development—and how it can guide us toward a future in which every child has the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Her prescription for this more prosperous and equitable future, as clear as it is powerful, is more robust support for parents during the most critical years of their children’s development. In her poignant new book, Parent Nation, written with award-winning science writer Lydia Denworth, Dr. Suskind helps parents recognize both their collective identity and their formidable power as custodians of our next generation. Weaving together the latest science on the developing brain with heart-breaking and relatable stories of families from all walks of life, Dr. Suskind shows that the status quo—scores of parents convinced they should be able to shoulder the enormous responsibility of early childhood care and education on their own—is not only unsustainable, but deeply detrimental to the wellbeing of children, families, and society. Anyone looking for a blueprint for how to build a brighter future for our children will find one in Parent Nation. Informed by the science of foundational brain development as well as history, political science, and the lived experiences of families around the country, this book clearly outlines how society can and should help families meet the developmental needs of their children. Only then can we ensure that all children are able to enjoy the promise of their potential.

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Wendon Blake

Getting Started in Drawing

Brenda Hoddinott

Drawing for Dummies

Betty Edwards

Drawing on the Artist Within

Nancy Boyd-Franklin; Brenna Hafer Bry

Reaching Out in Family Therapy

Matthew D. Selekman

The Adolescent and Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual

Scholastic

The Mindup Curriculum - Grades Prek-2

Monica McGoldrick

Re-Visioning Family Therapy

Ernie J. Zelinski

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Gabrielle Bernstein

Judgment Detox

Katherine Heiny

Early Morning Riser

Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City

Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law

Kathleen Flinn

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

Meg Lundstrom

What to Do When You Can't Decide

Lawrence J. Crabb

Soul Talk

Dawn Huebner; Bonnie Matthews (Illustrator)

What to Do When Your Temper Flares

Sean Covey

The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make

Arthur E. Jongsma; L. Mark Peterson; William P. McInnis; Timothy J. Bruce (Associate Editor)

The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner

Linda Graham; Rick Hanson (Foreword by)

Bouncing Back

Sara Gottfried

Brain Body Diet

Dana Suskind; Lydia Denworth (As told to)

Parent Nation

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