Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Anne C. Coon Ph.D., Judith Ann Feuerherm
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are interwoven with information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and focus groups, thereby allowing readers to identify with individuals similar to themselves, whether through profession, education,...
by Elise Franck
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2014
« Trouvez vous aussi votre chemin vers la réussite »
Etre indépendant financièrement, mener plusieurs vies de front, exercer différents métiers, avoir plusieurs passions... et ne travailler que quelques heures par semaine tout en gagnant toujours plus d’argent : tout le monde en rêve......
Just Add Hormones
An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasn't right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began his journey...
Understanding Behaviour in Dementia that Challenges
A Guide to Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
*Highly Commended in the Health and Social Care category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*
Behaviours that challenge can significantly interfere with the quality of life of a person with dementia, as well as that of those who live with and care for them. Yet there is a great...
by Felicity Price
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
**A funny novel that tackles the serious issues of divorce, breast cancer and being stuck in the 'Sandwich Generation'.**A warmly humorous novel about an engagingly vulnerable woman who belongs to the Sandwich Generation - sandwiched between the demands of a career, elderly parents, teenagers and...
The New Old Me
My Late-Life Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
“A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions.”—O Magazine
“I love everything Meredith Maran writes. She is insightful, funny, and human, and the things she writes about matter to me deeply. Her memoir, The New Old Me, is a book I don’t just want to read—I need to read it. So does...
Older Adults and Autism Spectrum Conditions
An Introduction and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The first book to look seriously at the practical issues facing older adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASC), Wenn Lawson's groundbreaking handbook offers support, advice, and sensible ways in which to look at the issues.
Informed by current research, interviews with older people diagnosed...
El mono inmaduro
El desarrollo psicológico humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2014
El desarrollo de los seres humanos es un fenómeno fascinante que todos podemos observar, pero que se aprecia mejor si tenemos algunos elementos para entenderlo. Se trata de un proceso que tiene una gran importancia pues es el que nos permite construir una naturaleza social sobre nuestra naturaleza...
The Gifted Adult
A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling? If these traits sound familiar,...
by Alfonso Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
"Tránsito de Amado Nervo" es uno de los trabajos que con mayor entendimiento se han dedicado al poeta de "En paz". Son páginas escritas, ya a solicitud de la Revista de América (París, 1914), ya provocadas por la edición de las Obras completas que la Biblioteca de Nervo confió...
Out of Time
The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging.
How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone...
by Jacques Gauvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV)The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
Many of these poems, although written in the mid 90's, were reflections on past memories. Most were written before I got married. They were all written after I was baptised but at times do...
Summary & Study Guide - NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Comprehensive View of Autism Past and Present
The must-read summary of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" by Steve Silberman.
In NeuroTribes, award-winning science journalist Steve Silberman changes the societal conversation about autism with...
Loving Someone Who Has Dementia
How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementia
Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about how...