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Relationship Rescue $16.44 Famous for helping people "get real" about relationship (and many other) issues, Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., Oprah Winfrey contemporary and famed "Dr. Phil" of TV fame, as well as a psychologist with over 30 years of experience, explores ways that couples can turn their partnerships into success stories. An epiphany while counseling a dysfunctional couple led McGraw to rethink and revamp his counseling style and move away from conventional wisdom on couple therapy. Based on his observations of thousands of real couples (rather than his considerable book-learning), this program offers straight talk that will enable readers to take charge of their relationships, their futures, and their lives. McGraw offers a seven-step method for individual and joint self-exploration, learning together, and working toward the optimum relationship of which so many have dreamed. He offers plenty of hard work, including questionnaires, profiles, and surveys, before presenting a specific two-week curriculum for growing closer. Couples with a desire to restore their intimacy, or avoid losing it in the first place, will find a goldmine of help and information in this refreshing, no-nonsense guide.

Relationship Saboteurs (Paperback) $25.12 Do you seek a healthy romantic relationship, but continue to find yourself repeating the same negative behaviors that may have ended your relationships in the past? Have you already identified destructive patterns, yet continue to repeat them despite your desire for a strong and lasting romantic relationship? If so, you are not alone.Relationship Saboteurs is an easy-to-follow guide that will help you identify and end your relationship-destroying tendencies once and for all. The book explores the ten most common relationship-undermining behaviors and shows you how to overcome them. By understanding and addressing the patterns that erode romance, you can learn to stop sabotaging your love life and prepare yourself for the healthy romantic relationship you deserve."For anyone who wants long-lasting love and can`t figure out how to find and keep it. Randi Gunther`s honest, illuminating, and straightforward approach helps us to understand something so basic yet so complex: how to love and be loved."—Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books (Paperback) $20.91 "If you follow only a third of Jean`s advice, you`ll have a successful book." —Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. "After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000." —Timmen Cermak, M.D., author of A Time to Heal: The Road to Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics Mastering the craft and understanding the mechanics of writing self-help and how-to books is the key to getting publishers to take notice of your work. Now, in the first guide to writing self-help and how-to books, Jean Stine offers an insider`s view of this growing genre. Her easy-to-follow program takes you step-by-step through the complete writing process. You`ll learn the importance of: Structure and Style Clear, easy-to-understand exercises Creating catchy and compelling titles, subtitles, and chapter headings Using lists, charts, and graphs to maximum effect Checklists and other interactive elements Writing a proposal that sells Negotiating permissions for quotations, photos, and illustrations Preparing your manuscript for presentation to a publisher

The New Relationship Marketing (Hardcover) $33.56 People have always done business with people they know, like, and trust. That`s the essence of "Relationship Marketing." What has changed in recent years, though, is the immense popularity of online networking. Business people today need to hone a whole new set of skills to really master the art of relationship marketing through these social channels.This book aims to help busy professionals, executives and business owners understand the vital importance of masterful relationship building and relationship management in the new media world. By fostering high quality relationships with customers and their community at large, businesses can easily begin to see an increase in measurable results, including profits. Plus, those individuals and companies with the largest "social footprint" get the biggest successes, the big bucks, the big wins. It`s not what you know, it`s who you know – but, more importantly, who knows you and what they know about you. This book provides the reader with an entire game plan for how to build a sizeable, loyal network comprised of quality relationships that results in a continuous stream of leads, happy customers, publicity, deals, opportunities, sales and more.

Relationship Rescue Workbook $22.36 Ever since RELATIONSHIP RESCUE became an instant number one New York Times hardcover bestseller, Phil McGraw's audience have been asking for a workbook to help them apply his strategies for change to their relationships. Now, in THE RELATIONSHIP RESCUE WORKBOOK, Dr. Phil, Oprah's resident expert on human functioning, provides questions, exercises and self tests that will enable couples in even the most troubled relationships to get their love lives back on track. And for those in solid relationships who would like to regain their spark, he reveals how to make that happen. He shows readers exactly how to pinpoint problems in their relationships, and how to make sure that the changes they enact will truly last. His straightforward, tell it like it is advice is made crystal clear in this easy to use workbook that is sure to prove immensely popular with his devoted national following.

The Verbally Abusive Relationship (Paperback) $22.32 In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You`ll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life.In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the Outside Stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse–and shows you how you can mitigate the devastating effects on your relationships. She also outlines the Levels of Abuse that characterize this kind of behavior–from subtle, insidious put-downs that can erode your self-esteem to full-out tantrums of name-calling, screaming, and threatening that can escalate into physical abuse. Drawing from hundreds of real situations suffered by real people just like you, Evans offers strategies, sample scripts, and action plans designed to help you deal with the abuse–and the abuser.This timely new edition of The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition puts you on the road to recognizing and responding to verbal abuse, one crucial step at a time!

Linda Goodman's Relationship Signs $16.44 In the perceptive and sensitive style that sets her work apart, Goodman sends her readers to the stars like never before. Relationship Signs is an individualized, detailed analysis of compatibility, based on birthcharts. The easy-to-use tables help readers to create astrological charts.

The T.d. Jakes Relationship Bible (Hardcover) $106.61 The New York Times bestselling author of Reposition Yourself and Making Great Decisions offers his legion of followers the Bible enhanced with his words of insight and inspiration, sharing wisdom on how we can cultivate better relationships with God, each other, and ourselves. Bishop Jakes continues to be among America’s most influential spiritual advisors, reaching audiences with his ministry, his books, and his other national and international media platforms. Jakes has been ranked by readers of The Church Report as #1 among “The 50 Most Influential Christians in American” and has been named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Preacher.”

The Spiritual Path to a Healthy Relationship (Mixed media product) $20.17 We all want our relationships to be healthy-but who knows how to make that happen? Husband and wife authors Steven and Angie McCord, a couple in recovery with more than twenty years each show you what works for them.     Drawing from lessons learned in their own relationships and Steve`s eighteen years of experience in clinical practice, the McCords provide wise counsel about what helps and what hurts a relationship.The Spiritual Path to a Healthy Relationship offers gentle guidance rooted in spiritual principles that will help readers learn effective tools and solutions for achieving the relationships they desire, including:Envisioning the qualities you want in a mate and identifying `must-haves` and `deal breakers`Transitioning from self-reliance to partnershipOvercoming relationship fears and getting past intimacy roadblocksNurturing positive communication, gratitude, and spiritual connectionApplying prayer and meditation for a more peaceful relationship

The Blood Books $17.75 Contains Blood Prince, in which P.I. Vicki Nelson, witnessing a dark magic attack on Toronto, joins forces with her former police partner and a writer to track down the source of the attacks, and Blood Trail, in which Vicki must turn to a vampire for help when peaceful werewolves are hunted by a faceless enemy. Original.

The Verbally Abusive Relationship – Recovery and Renewal (Paperback) $22.33 "You`re too sensitive.""You`ll never amount to anything.""You`re crazy."If this is what you hear–from your spouse, your parent, your boss–then you`ve been the victim of verbal abuse. This insidious behavior permeates our culture–from the privacy of our own homes to the public glare of our schools, workplaces, and other institutions.But you don`t have to live with it. In this groundbreaking companion to her bestselling The Verbally Abusive Relationship, acclaimed public speaker, educator and author Patricia Evans brings you the tools you need to triumph over verbal abuse, no matter where or how you encounter it.She`ll guide you step by step through a powerful healing process that provides:A thorough review of available therapiesStrategies for dealing with abusersPositive messages of support and encouragementInspiring affirmations for every week of the yearWith Patricia`s help, you`ll achieve the clarity you need to build a new life–far from senseless accusations, wounding words, and confusing comments that have taken an untold toll on your psyche. You`ll find validation, and learn to believe in yourself–and a better future–once more.

Comic Books Unbound (DVD) $18.5 Motion pictures and comic books have always had a close relationship. This documentary from the Starz network looks back on some of the essential adaptations that have transformed colorful comic-book panels into living images on the silver screen–including SPIDERMAN, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, X-MEN, SUPERMAN, and more. Among those who share their thoughts on the subject are Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Roger Corman, and Robert Downey Jr.

Help! $27.95 Gossip almost hurts Snake and Mouse?s friendship when the little rodent hears that snakes are not always so nice to mice. When Mouse falls in a hole, none of his friends, including Hedgehog, Squirrel, and Rabbit, can help. Will Snake come to the rescue? With lovely illustrations by the author and artist of FARFELLINA & MARCEL.

Help, I`m In Love With A Narcissist $30.71 The authors expose the dangers of narcissistic behavior in a relationship, showing readers how to identify narcissism, recognize the various feelings it evokes, and learn to avoid such relationships in the future.

Little Vehicle Books (Hardcover) $34.56 Brand new in the green start? series, include a 98% recycled chunky board book in an adorable, reusable totebox tower! Each of these ten stackable book?s comes with simple, enriching content and endearing illustrations! Kids will discover all different kinds of vehicles, from cars they see around town, to trucks at work, to emergency vehicles that help people every day! Book titles: around town, at work, boats, cars, construction, emergency, for fun, in the sky, planes and train. Parents can read the books together with their child and then slip them back into the tote-along tower. Comes with ten mini 6 page board books.

Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out $20.47 Written directly to kids in grades 4 to 12, of special interest to readers are the ways anger messes up their lives. Child psychologist Jerry Wilde discusses the causes of anger in relation to Rational Emotive Theory. Exercises in the books will help kids think clearly and be less hostile.

More Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out $20.47 Written directly to kids in grades 4 to 12, of special interest to readers are the ways anger messes up their lives. Child psychologist Jerry Wilde discusses the causes of anger in relation to Rational Emotive Theory. Exercises in the books will help kids think clearly and be less hostile.

A Critical Study of Self-help and Self-improvement Practices (Hardcover) $303.02 his book looks at what holds the term `self-help` together when the words seem to appear as entirely independent phenomena. It undertakes to examine the relationships between self-help books and self-help groups, and self and help, drawing on textual, discursive, and ethnographic modes of inquiry.

The Great Books (Paperback) $35.32 Anyone Can Read the Great Books . . . with a Little Help “An illuminating, learned, well-written, and entertaining survey of the giants of world literature. Busy people, and especially the young, will be grateful for this useful and concise introduction.” —Paul Johnson Not simply a grand work of reference, The Great Books is a captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of the great Western tradition. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear is our capable tour guide, taking readers on an exhilarating tour through 2,500 years of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller. The Great Booksis a fascinating narrative that encompasses history, myth, art, music, theater, and more. O’Hear sweeps us along from Homer’s Iliad to Goethe’s Faust, covering much ground in between. In Homer’s poems of epic struggle we discover not only the fascination and pleasure we can derive, but also why these works became the fountainhead of Western literature. From Greek tragedy we feel the power of the ancient myths, while from Plato’s Death of Socrates we see what may have killed off the tragic spirit. In Virgil’s Aeneid we ponder the close connections to—and puzzling contrasts with—Homer; in Dante’s terrifying and sublime Divine Comedy we encounter Virgil once again, this time as mentor and guide through Hell; and in Milton’s phantasmagoric Paradise Lost we find the Christian story given epic shape and power. And of course, in Shakespeare we experience the great dramatist’s particular and incomparable genius. There is much more beyond—from Ovid and Augustine to Chaucer and Cervantes, Pascal a

Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits (Paperback) $30.11 Provides teachers with annotations of a variety of children`s books along with lesson ideas and activities to help students develop writing skills.

The Wealth of Nations/Books I-III $20.87 It is in Books IV and IV of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS that Adam Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats, perhaps the first great school of economic theorists, and assesses the nature of the mercantile system, particularly the colonial relationship with America, whose achievements could have been even more spectacular if conditions of free trade and economic union had existed. Even on the eve of the Declaration of Independence, Smith famously predicted that America will be one of the foremost nations of the world. It is also here that he develops the case for a limited state role in economic planning, notably to combat market failure and induce efficiency in areas such as education, public works, justice, and defense. His pioneering analysis still provides many subtle and penetrating insights into one of today's most vital and controversial policy debates.

Running the Books (Hardcover) $43.96 In the tradition of A. J. Jacobs’s The Year of Living Biblically, a hilarious immersion memoir of one lapsed Orthodox Jew’s stint as a prison librarian. A few years after graduating from Harvard, Avi Steinberg is stumped. While his friends are getting married and get­ting promoted, Steinberg has grown dissatisfied with the insu­larities of his upbringing, from the Orthodox Jewish sense of “chosenness” to his Ivy League education, its secular counter­part. Anxious to shed the ideologies of his background, and seeking direction, Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison. He’s about as far from his comfort zone as he can get. Steinberg’s new quarters attract a crowd of quirky regulars seeking connection with the outside world, among them an amiable pimp who solicits Steinberg’s help in writing his memoir, an industrious gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle, a tyrannical officer who insti­gates a major altercation over a Post-it note, and an ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son when he unexpectedly shows up behind bars. Over time, Steinberg creates a unique community for these outcasts and forms unlikely personal relationships, which he recounts with heartbreak and humor. His experience leads him to a deeper sense of purpose and turns him into the person that a yeshiva never could. Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and a refreshingly entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.

Wild About Books $23.71 When a dedicated librarian accidentally drives her bookmobile into the local zoo, she makes the best of the situation by sharing a Dr. Seuss story with the zoo`s residents. The animals are so moved by what they hear, and later by what they read, that they decide to pen their own works and even persuade the librarian to help them open up their very own zoo library. Dedicated to Dr. Seuss, this book honors him in both its rhythmic style and colorful illustrations.

The Blood Books (Paperback) $18.5 Includes Blood Lines, in which a 450-year-old vampire, fearing for his life, calls upon his sometime-lover and comrade, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, for help, and Blood Pact, in which Vicki Nelson, after the sudden death of her mother, discovers that strange things are happening at the hospital where her mother worked. Original.

The Supervisory Relationship $83.72 In the past two decades, many psychodynamic therapists have begun to view the relational processes taking place between patient and therapist as a central source of transformation. Yet traditional paradigms of clinical supervision, focusing primarily on didactic teaching, have limitations for training therapists to work in these new ways. This groundbreaking volume is the first to elaborate a comprehensive contemporary model of supervision. Using a wealth of examples and vignettes, the authors show how working within the vicissitudes of the supervisory relationship can allow the supervisee to gain a deeper understanding of the treatment method being taught. Key topics discussed include issues of power and authority, regression in the supervisory relationship, rethinking the teach/treat question, parallel process as a relational phenomenon, working with group process in case conference, and the role of the organization in supporting training. This is a richly informative resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychoanalysts, and others involved in clinical supervision and training. It also will serve as a text for courses in supervision and organizational psychology.

Why the Egyptians Wrote Books $66.27 What was written down in Ancient Egypt and what was not committed to writing changed dramatically over 3000 years of dynastic history. Why were some genres of texts created and not others? John Tait uses this question as the starting point to explore the meaning of writing in ancient Egypt, through its technology, through the decisions of the scribes who wrote them, and through the expectations of readers of these texts. It explores the culture of orality, the uses made of written documents, and ancient preservation strategies for textual materials. Tait creates a set of genres of Egyptian texts to help us understand how they viewed written documents in their original cultural context.

Dk Eyewitness Books (Paperback) $31.47 With more than 20 million copies sold in 41 languages and more than 88 countries worldwide, DK Eyewitness has been the most trusted series in reference publishing for more then three decades. Visually engaging, informative, and lively, the more than 100 titles in the Eyewitness series focus on subjects that complement students` personal interests and areas of study to make learning simple and fun. The most trusted nonfiction series for teachers, librarians, and parents Perfect for homework help Combination of pictures and text make the series perfect for reluctant readers and ESL students

Dk Eyewitness Books (Hardcover) $41.14 With more than 20 million copies sold in 41 languages and more than 88 countries worldwide, DK Eyewitness has been the most trusted series in reference publishing for more then three decades. Visually engaging, informative, and lively, the more than 100 titles in the Eyewitness series focus on subjects that complement students` personal interests and areas of study to make learning simple and fun. The most trusted nonfiction series for teachers, librarians, and parents Perfect for homework help Combination of pictures and text make the series perfect for reluctant readers and ESL students

1 and 2 Samuel $7.99 Written by the dynamic leaders of church ministry across the country, this series explores life-changing topics from a biblical perspective. New Community guides don”t force small groups to choose between Bible study and building community. Just the opposite. Each study delves deeply into Scripture in a way that strengthens relationships. Challenging questions encourage group members to reflect not only on Scripture but also on their own lives—individually and as a part of God”s family.And unlike most Bible studies, the New Community series helps study groups convert biblical principles into practical teamwork—helping at the soup kitchen, bringing a meal to someone, writing an encouraging letter, and so on. Filled with prayer, insight, intimacy, and action, each study in this series will help group members line up their lives and relationship more closely with the Bible”s model for the church.

10 Citas Extraordinarias Para Vigorizar Tu Matrimonio $10.99 From the creators of Marriage Alive Seminars. . . 10 Fun-Filled Great Dates That Will Energize Your Marriage! Remember back to your dating days—do you recall the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, fun, and will help youcommunicate better * put the sizzle back into sex* process anger and resolve conflicts* develop spiritual intimacy * appreciate your differences* balance busy lifestyles . . . and much more!You”ll receive huge returns for the time you spend together. Thanks to 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage, you”re about to discover just how much fun strengthening your relationship can be!

10 Lessons from a Former Fat Girl $11.99 Amy Parham, a former fat girl who became a fit girl after losing more than 100 pounds, learned what it takes to stay fit inside and out. In 10 Lessons from a Former Fat Girl, she offers nuggets of insight for changing not only the fat-girl body but also the fat-girl mentality. Focusing on the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our relationship with food and exercise, Amy shows how readers can make this a healthy partnership that brings permanent change. Amy speaks from experience as she identifies with the reader struggling with a food addiction describes emotional pitfalls that serve as triggers for overeating explores the mental and emotional benefits of regular exercise illustrates how and why fitness must be a lifelong pursuit demonstrates how to transform our minds as well as our bodies The result is a practical, proven plan that will help any reader reprogram the fat-girl mentality into fit-girl reality.

10 Lifesavers for Every Couple: Help and Hope When Your Relationship Hits a Rough Spot $11.99 Nearly all couples experience seasons of relational stress. But as clinical psychologist David Hawkins shows, these times are predictable and manageable. In fact, they can even lead to positive changes and renewed growth.This easy-to-read handbook highlights important warning signals, helping readers avoid many serious consequences of relational trouble. Couples will discover how to call a truce, create stability, and reestablish trust. They”ll also learn to…explore the causes of conflict, including longstanding patterns and recent traumahumbly and honestly commit to the process of changeeliminate barriers to growth, such as denial, shortcuts, and simplistic solutionsidentify and build on good things in the relationshipdevelop new skills for communication and conflict resolutionPacked with biblical wisdom and practical information from the counseling office, 10 Lifesavers for Every Couple affirms the value of marriage and empowers couples to grow through their times of crisis.

100 Tips for a Happy Baby $2.92 Simple yet sound advice on all areas of the new baby’s well-being takes moms from newborn infant to toddler. Clear guidelines and suggestions advise on how to build a special relationship with the baby through everyday activities. Health care, feeding habits, sleeping, game playing, and keeping both mom and baby happy are included in this delightful little collection of tips to help the new mother raise a blissful baby. Attractive illustrations and expert advice combine in a handsome format in every Happy Tips book. Approximately 50 stylish illustrations emphasize the happy expectations as childbirth approaches and after baby is born. These delightful little books make great gifts for baby showers.

101 Marketing Strategies for Accounting, Law, Consulting, and Professional Services Firms $47.5 Troy Waugh–”the rainmakers” rainmaker”–has provided a well-designed blueprint for selling professional services that skillfully draws upon his more than thirty years in the field. This practical, highly focused guide to the selling process can help our firms achieve sales successes measured not only by effort but also by bottom-line results. –Howard B. Allenberg, vice chairman and CIO, BDO Seidman, LLPFinally, peerless focus on how to break into all aspects of the selling process and the currents of relationship and buyer development. Learn how to build your personal and firm business more successfully. Covers the process of relationship and buyer development. Provides proven strategies from hundreds of the world”s successful firms.Order your copy today!

101 Ways to Be a Long-Distance Super-Dad… or Mom, Too! $9.95 101 Ways To Be A Long-Distance Super-Dador Mom, Too! offers helpful, practical tips for parents who live or work in one place, and whose children live in another. While divorce can geographically separate a mom or dad from a child, so can military service or a job requiring travel. This book can help parents remain an important part of their children’s lives. Now in its 14th printing, the book is a must for parents who want to keep in close contact with their children, but find it difficult to overcome the barriers posed by distance. Award-winning journalist George Newman draws on his experience as a divorced father, sharing valuable tips for enriching the parent-child relationship, even during physical separation.

101 Ways to Tell Your Sweetheart I Love You $2.7 Even the most loving relationships occasionally need a fresh spark. This charming lovers” handbook contains 101 hints to help get the fires burning again. From creating a special crossword with clues only the two of you would know to sweet treats containing special messages to coupons for future engagements, Vicki Lansky”s innovative suggestions offer fresh inspiration for rekindling the romance in any relationship.

12 Questions to Ask Before You Marry $11.99 Today, marriages have a 50 percent chance of lasting. Longing to improve those odds, pastor Clayton King, author of the popular Dying to Live, and his wife, Charie, reveal a revolutionary biblical perspective?at the heart of a godly union is a heart of service. Love is more about understanding one”s spouse than being understood. Offering wisdom from God”s Word and beneficial advice from their decade of marriage, the Kings present 12 relationship-building questions for couples to ask before they wed. They guide and encourage couples to discuss their: religious backgrounds past relationships desires for family and future financial habits and goals vocational aspirations These questions reveal expectations and concerns and help each person understand the needs and hopes of their loved one. A great resource for churches, counselors, dating couples, and young men and women who dream of a forever marriage.

12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery $14.95 Are you sabotaging your own recovery?To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there are as many ways to mess up recovery as there are alcoholics and addicts, some general themes exist, which include: – confusing self-concern with selfishness- not making amends- using the program to try to become perfect- not getting help for relationship troubles- believing that life should be easyIn simple, down-to-earth language, Allen Berger explores the twelve most commonly confronted beliefs and attitudes that can sabotage recovery. He then provides tools for working through these problems in daily life. This useful guide offers fresh perspectives on how the process of change begins with basic self-awareness and a commitment to working a daily program.

20 Communication Tips for Couples: A 30-Minute Guide to a Better Relationship $8.95 Laid out in simple terms, these 20 concise, commonsense ideas can apply to any relationship, and are designed to help reassure a partner to make him or her more receptive and enable more effective communication.

31 Dates In 31 Days $17 On the eve of her 31st birthday, after yet another painful breakup, Tamara Duricka Johnson decides it”s time to overhaul her dating habits. When a friend jokingly suggests that she embark on a dating project, inspiration strikes: in honor of turning 31, she”ll go on 31 dates in 31 days — and resist the urge to turn each date into her next relationship. Instead, she”ll have to wait until the 31st date to pick one of the 30 men to go out with a second time. With each date, Johnson learns something about herself. Some experiences are awful, but others are amazing — and all of them help change her attitude about not just dating but people in general. In the end, though, she realizes there”s only one man of the entire 30 that she can see herself marrying — and one year later, she does. Chatty, fun, and confessional, 31 Dates in 31 Days is an entertaining journey that offers astute insights into the modern dating scene.

50 Ways to Create Great Relationships $14.32 In relationships, there are two kinds of people: reactors and creators. If you want stronger personal and professional connections-the keys to a happy, successful life-you need to stop responding to other people”s shortcomings and start forming the relationships you want for yourself. In 50 Ways to Create Great Relationships, bestselling author and relationship guru Steve Chandler offers more of the warm, witty, practical advise he”s famous for-proven tips, strategies, and insights that can help you build and maintain loyal, meaningful relationships. You”ll learn how to shift your energy from taking to giving, how to use innovation and imagination, how to be a creative listener instead of a passive listener, and much more. Expanded from the audio-only 35 Ways to Create Great Relationships, 50 Ways will open the door to new opportunities for loyalty, friendship, and support in your personal life and the workplace.

50 Ways to Hex Your Lover $7.99 Jazz is a witch who can’t stay out of trouble. Nicholas is a gorgeous vampire cop, on the trail of a serial killer. The two have had a tempestuous relationship for about 300 years. But now Nick needs Jazz’s help–and she can’t decide whether to scorch him with a fireball or jump into bed with him.

7 Rules of Achievement $33.98 Tell me your goal and I will tell you WHY you are likely NOT to achieve it! The way in which you have pursued goals in the past has very likely created the exact opposite blueprint of the one needed to achieve what you want. Those negative blueprints may be exactly what are keeping you from living your dreams. –Tom Terwilliger, 7 RULES of Achievement This life changing book will help you finally create the new and empowering architecture needed to achieve whatever you want in your life including abundant wealth, a joyful and fulfilling relationship, a sexy, strong and healthy body and your ability to lead and inspire. Even before completing the 7 RULES of Achievement you will immediately begin to feel unstuck and compelled to start moving towards even your most ambitious dreams.

A Better Way to Pray $14.99 Andrew Wommack uncovers the traditions and misconceptions in prayer that often bring more suffering than good! In finding out how Jesus taught us to pray, we can bring joy back into our relationship with God. Many people, who truly love God with all of their heart, find it difficult to pray as they have been taught. And their once-vibrant relationship with the Lord had become stifled, mechanical, and lifeless. What they don’t understand is that prayer is an opportunity to have communion with God-fellowship with the Father. Of course it includes requests because we need help from our Father every day, but it also includes a connection and friendship with God. Readers may find it amazing that God would talk with them just as a friend, but His greatest desire is for His children to know Him in much the same, intimate way as He knows them. After 30 years of ministry, Andrew Wommack has discovered some important things about prayer including what prayer is and what it is not. Readers will uncover the traditions and misconceptions in prayer and discover true and meaningful communion with God through Jesus’ example of prayer. More importantly, they’ll come to know a new, profound joy and fulfillment in their relationship with God, receiving the answers they need. The subject of prayer has been touched on many times through classic and current authors, but Andrew Wommack brings a fresh approach to prayer by defuncting the common traditions that make prayer laborious and lifeless. In much the same style as Tommy Tenny’s The God Chasers and Jim Cymbala’s Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, readers will be thrilled to find a God who desires to talk with them anytime, whenever they are open and willing.Readers will learn to develop vibrant, open communication with the Father all throughout their day.

A Church Fully Engaged $29.95 The French Dominican, Fr. Yves Congar, was deeply convinced that in the churchs ongoing tension with the secular world it was led to adopt very much the same attitudes as the temporal power itself, to conceive of itself as a society, as a power, when in reality it was a communion, with ministers and servants. It was Congars lifelong theological project to help restore to the church a more evangelical, gospel-based understanding of her life. From the vast corpus of this great expert of the Second Vatican Council, this book gathers his efforts as they pertain specifically to the issue of authority in the church. The often hot-button nature of any discussion on how authority is exercised in the church will only benefit from the retrieval of the theological tradition on this issue brought forth by Congar. Congars vision ultimately demands that our understanding of authority must flow from our understanding of God as a Trinity of Persons and, therefore, be practiced in the mutuality of relationship and always be directed at growth in authentic relationship.

A Concise Companion to American Studies $145.96 A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the new American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual disciplineAddresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the new American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialismExplores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American StudiesDesigned to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies

A Dance with the Devil $16 Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was? At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn?t believe her luck?so when things didn?t add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces together?unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he drained her credit, dodged her questions, manipulated her and misled her, she stayed with him, suppressing her growing suspicions. Ultimately he would try to kill her, proving himself not a protector and provider, but a predator. This is Barbara”s courageous, compelling story, in her own words?of the slow, choking darkness that fell after the honeymoon was over, what it took to finally drive her to escape and start her life anew, and her tireless efforts to protect other women and help them learn from her example.

A Field Guide to God $21.99 In her Confessions of an Amateur Believer, Patty Kirk gave readers an honest account of what it means to embark on a real relationship with God in today”s world. Now, in A Field Guide to God: A Seeker”s Manual, she turns her engaging prose on a more practical matterhow to discover God”s presence in a world where we can”t see, touch, or hear him. Courageously expressing her struggles with faith and doubt, Patty Kirk shows how to reencounter God in both conventional and unexpected ways. From new ways of reading the Bible and experiencing prayer to remembering how we”ve experienced God in our past and remaining open to indirect messages in everyday life, she helps readers bring more meaning and hope to the faith journey. In addition, each chapter concludes with simple, creative exercises that help you reach out to God. She encourages readers to step out of longing and passive seeking to take action and creatively pursue a God who is always there.

A Golfer’s Life $16.95 There has never been a golfer to rival Arnold Palmer. To the legions of golf fans around the world, Palmer is a charismatic hero, the winner of sixty-one tournaments on the PGA Tour and still going strong on the Senior PGA Tour. But behind the legend, there is the private Palmer — a man of wit, compassion, loyalty, and true grit in the face of personal adversity.Writing with the humor and candor that are as much his trademark as his unique golf swing, Palmer narrates the deeply moving story of his life both on and off the links. He recounts the loving relationship he shared with his father, Deacon Palmer, the course superintendent and head professional at Latrobe Country Club, where young Arnie developed his game, his friendships and rivalries with golf greats, his enduringly happy marriage with Winnie, his legendary charges to triumph and titanic disasters, and his valiant battle against cancer and remarkable recovery.Arnold Palmer has lived one of the great sporting lives of the twentieth century. Now, with the help of acclaimed golf writer James Dodson, he has created one of the great sports autobiographies of our time.

A Great Relationship & Then Some $57.27 A Great Relationship & Then Some, is a guide for young adults to enhance current relationships and cultivate new more respectful ones. It examines all relationships, not just romantic ones. The book serves as a guide to help you examine the quality of all of your relationships. It will allow you to take a close look at yourself and those with whom you interact. This guide will allow you to assess your attachment style and to see how this style impacts your relationships. It also gives you a window into how you respond to relationship situations.

A Great Russia: Russia and the Triple Entente, 1905 to 1914 $106.4 The Triple Entente of Great Britain, Russia, and France was the foreign policy prong of the Russian imperial government’s reaction to the disastrous events of 1905, including the revolution and the near defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. This alignment with the two western, liberal powers was almost universally perceived within official Russian governing circles as a necessary, if ideologically distasteful, diplomatic relationship to offset the growing German threat on the continent. Maintaining the entente would help Russia retain its great power status. For the first time, Tomaszewski tells the official Russian side of the story, long inaccessible due to restrictions imposed by the relevant Russian archives during the Soviet era. In doing so, she sheds new light on the international scene as the crisis of World War One approached.

A Guide for Developing Interdisciplinary Thematic Units $56.75 Offers a step-by-step approach to using ITUs to help pupils acquire the knowledge and develop the problem-solving skills required for today”s changing-and challenging-times. Addresses the content, technology, diversity, and classroom management of ITUs. Material on curriculum standards, scoring guides, and the relationship between the interdisciplinary thematic unit approach and professional education tests. Extensive coverage of the role of pupil input into ITUs. For future educators.

A Healthy Horse the Natural Way: The Horse Owner’s Guide to Using Herbs, Massage, Homeopathy, and Other Natural Therapies $175.7 Just as more and more people are embracing a more natural approach to their health and wellbeing, many horse owners are turning to ways they can use natural therapies with their horses. A Healthy Horse the Natural Way is the complete complementary approach to horse health, covering: herbs, massage, aromatherapy, homeopath, Bach flower remedies, biochemic tissue salts, vibrational healing/energy fields and perhaps, most importantly, how and when to use a combination of these therapies and when to use them in conjunction with veterinary treatment. This practical handbook will add new dimensions to your horse’s health and sense of well-being, and help you develop an increasingly harmonious relationship with your horse. (7 x 9 1/4, 240 pages, b&w photos, illustrations) Catherine Bird has led the development of equine natural therapies in Australia and is in worldwide demand as a practitioner, lecturer, and teacher. Her extensive experience is founded on many years of working with dressage, jumping, eventing, endurance, pony club, and international-level competition horses, old companion horses, and thoroughbred horses from newborn foals to all stages of track racing, mounted police horses, and balloted mounts at the 2000 Paralympic games. She is a regular contributor to magazines and lives in Australia.

A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau $89.25 As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors series format. William E. Cain, the volume editor, includes contributions on his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land, which should help the volume”s reach beyond those who read Thoreau for illumination to those general readers who love him for embodying the spirit of American rebellion.

A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau $52.77 As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors series format. William E. Cain, the volume editor, includes contributions on his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land, which should help the volume”s reach beyond those who read Thoreau for illumination to those general readers who love him for embodying the spirit of American rebellion.

A History of Dogs in the Early Americas $26.39 Drawing on chronicles, ethnographies, archaeological reports, myths, biology, and a rich array of visual materials, Marion Schwartz investigates views about dogs in a wide range of native societies in North and South America. She discusses the early domestication of the dog and looks at how hunting and gathering peoples relied on dogs to help with the hunt and to transport food and goods. She provides details about the eating of dogs for ritual purposes or as a dietary staple. She describes how dogs were associated with the afterlife, where they functioned as guides or guards, and how dogs were buried in tombs or were sacrificed to the gods in many cultures. She examines pre-Columbian art to see how the dog was portrayed and the various meanings attributed to it. The book concludes with a description of the fierce war dogs brought by the Spanish to wreak havoc among the Indians – dogs unlike any the New World had ever seen – and how traditional societies reinvetented their relationship with dogs after the arrival of the Europeans.

A History of Medieval Islam $42.16 This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries.

A Hopeless Case of Hollywood $41.97 Brent has spent the last few years rebuilding his life as a successful, single, gay man. Since his two closest comrades entered serious relationships, he has learned to deal with the pitfalls of casual dating and living life as a solo act. Wesley, who found love early in his life, is wondering if he wasted his youth attached to a man whom he is now questioning his love for. He sees the joys of being single and carefree, but wonders if he will enjoy life without aMr. Right.a Sammy also questions the path he chose. He is hopelessly in love with a man who leaves bruises on him. He realizes that by being in this relationship, he had to give up the two people who loved him the most. He wonders if itas too late to rekindle those friendships, considering they may be the only people who can help him feel whole again. All three friends are faced with a crossroad, but is their bond strong enough to help them put the past behind them and to realize they still need each other?

A Journey into the Soulful Garden $27.72 A magical link connects all living beings on this planet, and in A Journey into the Soulful Garden, author L.M. Taylor describes her many and varied connections with members of the animal world. This collection of eleven essays details Taylor”s lighthearted adventures and the joy she experiences when interacting with nature”s special creatures. Experience a lesson in magic in the story Henry the Mule Deer as Taylor describes her attempts to help this animal rid himself of wind chimes that became entangled in his antlers. Read about a lesson in bravery as she rescues Tulip the mallard duck from a month”s accidental imprisonment in a drain pipe. Discover the special relationship Taylor has with Salem, a miniature, seven-pound, seventeen-year-old tabby cat. Infused with a deep love and admiration for wildlife, these first person stories serve to awaken the heart and provide a deeper insight into the heart and soul of nature.

A Love Alchemist’s Notebook $17.95 What”s the secret to attracting a soul mate? How do you conjure up your ideal man and feel profound love every day? Women everywhere who are seeking their soul mates will welcome this hip and fun guide to using the law of attraction, magic, and astrology to attain true, soulful love. Jessica Shepherd joyfully reveals nine soul mate secrets, such as how to focus on loving yourself, be receptive to love from others, and trust your intuition. Practical, interactive activities including spells and meditations will help you break bad karmic patterns, overcome difficult relationships, and grow spiritually so that you can draw your soul mate to you. From avoiding relationship potholes to understanding karmic soul mates (and the lessons they teach us) to casting love spells under a waxing moon, this personal and inspiring book holds the key to achieving long-lasting love with your true soul mate.

A Man After God’s Own Heart: The Life of David $14.86 Twice God says that in King David he had found ”a man after my own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14, Acts 13:22). David was one of God”s favourites. This was so despite David having sinned so deeply. What is encouraging is that the Lord continued to use David after his time of backsliding. David was a man with deep feelings. He was a poet and musician as well as being Israel”s greatest King and one of the greatest ever military leaders. David wrote that ”the Lord confides in those who fear him” (Psalm 25:14). It is a great honour to have someone confide in you – but to think that God would confide in a human being is amazing! David was someone with whom God chose to share his heart. If you wish to know what it is like to be confided in by God – to become a person after God”s own heart too – then this book will help you discover what such a relationship is like.

A Nation Under the Influence: America’s Addiction to Alcohol $117.43 Provides the reader with a an up-to-date view of alcohol abuse in America. Coverage includes a historical perspective, and the nature of alcohol use and abuse. Dependence, treatment, and alcohol use and health issues are covered. Alcohol”s impact on different sectors in our society, as well as economic and social issues on the U.S. economy are discussed. Coverage of special populations, marketing and advertising issues, as well as primary and secondary methods of prevention and other solutions, help make this book well-rounded and the most current available on the market today. Issues of underage drinking, the stages of alcohol dependence, the relationship of the family disease are also discussed. Relevant internet sites are presented throughout the book, and in a comprehensive appendix. Anyone interested in the issues surrounding alcoholism in our contemporary society. This could include: Educators, counselors, social workers, correctional facilities and the public at large.

A Promise to Catie $20.35 Right after he moves with his family to an old farmstead in the country, Billy Griffin, Jr. begins to experience a series of inexplicable events, beginning with the nighttime appearance of a woman at his bedroom window. Never one to believe in ghosts, he seeks alternative explanations for the lurking shadows, disappearing objects, and wafting scents. The strangest mystery of all is that his sister Beth, bitten by a rattlesnake and unable to go for help, is rescued by an ambulance that no one has called. Billy is not afraid of whatever is causing the events until one night he is chased by two huge, silent dogs which only turn away from him in answer to a shrill whistle he has never heard before. Soon after, he discovers the dogs’ owner in an isolated cabin far from everyone else; it is Hebronetta Sikes, an old conjure woman who convinces Billy that he is dealing with a real live ghost . He learns from his neighbor Mrs. Isbell that a girl named Catie Waldrop had once lived in the farmhouse where Billy now lives, and that she died soon after moving to California. Billy’s fear turns first to fascination, then friendship and then, amazingly, to love. The relationship between flesh-and-blood Billy and ephemeral Catie is both humorous and poignant, and changes Billy’s life forever.

A Proslavery Foreign Policy $36.9 While the influence of racial policy has long been a factor in American foreign policy, one particularly evident example is U.S. relations with Haiti. The troubled relationship began under George Washington, who authorized the dispatch of arms and ammunition to help the French planters of Saint Dominque, present day Haiti, suppress the black rebellion. Washington’s support for the defense of slavery in this regard, proved to be important precident in the formulation of a proslavery policy in the White House, the State Department, and the Congress. Matthewson explores this stormy legacy and discusses the tension between racial and economic imperatives that would contiue to plague relations with the island nation for decades to come.

A Retreat With John the Evangelist $8.95 The last book of eminent Scripture scholar Raymond E. Brown, this work was published the day before his death in August, 1998. This book is a seven-day retreat with spiritual director John the Evangelist, author of the fourth Gospel. Through his artful appearance in the role of translator for John, Brown wove the evangelist’s words into a week of prayer and deepening acquaintance, ending with a list of resources to help readers continue this relationship. Available now.

A Road Through The Mountains $8.41 From Elizabeth McGregor comes an unforgettably moving, richly layered novel with a timeless love story at its core. Beautiful, suspenseful, hauntingly erotic, A Road Through the Mountains tells of one woman’s extraordinary journey to a new life with the help of the man she thought she’d lost long ago–a journey that will take hold of your heart. Anna Russell is a talented painter and single mother. Her daughter, Rachel, is a ten-year-old whose undoubtedly gifted mind is trapped by a form of autism known as Asperger Syndrome. When a car accident leaves Anna in a coma, both their lives–and the lives of all those around them–are changed forever. Across the Atlantic, David Mortimer receives an unexpected phone call from Anna’s mother. The scientist is stunned to learn that he’s a father. His long-ago affair with Anna was short and intense; when she suddenly returned home to the States, David slipped into a reclusive life of research, haunted by memories of the girl who’d left him without explanation. Now he knows he must break his self-imposed isolation, go to Boston and the woman he’s always loved, meet the child he never knew he had–and perhaps coax them both out of their silence. But as David attempts to put together the puzzle of Anna’s life as an artist, mother, and daughter, he finds himself involved in a relationship with Anna far more intimate than he expected. Why did she leave him so many years before? Where, as she lies in a coma, is she now? And how is it that he loves this woman even after all these years? When he stumbles across Anna’s mysterious fascination with the rare flowers that were once their shared passion, he and Rachel, their beautiful, sensitivechild, may just have discovered how to help Anna find a way back–a road through the mountains. Lyric, tender, as fragile and enduring as love itself, A Road Through the Mountains draws upon its author’s personal experiences and establishes Elizabeth McGregor as a major storyteller. P

A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind $13.99 A serial dieter and queen of good humor (The Literary Guild) offers encouraging, practical help that addresses a woman”s most-conflicted relationship–her struggles with her own body. Funny and unforgettable.– Publishers Weekly.

A Woman After God’s Heart: Discovering Your Legacy as God’s Daughter $206.18 A loving relationship with your heavenly Father will help you build healthy relationships with others. Learn to maintain peace amid confusion, use your gifts and abilities to serve others.

A Woman’s Guide to Living Alone: 10 Ways to Survive Grief and Be Happy $15.95 Living alone has become inevitable for most women; the U.S. Census Bureau reports that 73% of females will die single. With climbing divorce rates and increased female life expectancy, the reality of living without a significant other becomes more and more common for women. A Woman’s Guide to Living Alone: 10 Ways to Survive Grief and Be Happy offers practical advice and personal stories to help women successfully ease into a new and full lifestyle after the termination of a marriage, the end of a relationship, or the loss of a loved one.Clinical experts as well as individuals who have overcome their own loss impart day-to-day survival tips to show women on their own how to discover the joys of living alone. By addressing the facets of single living, this honest and informative book provides a detailed pathway for women seeking self-sufficiency. It also contains a special section on Survivors’ Stories in which everyday women as well as celebrity personalities such as Joan Rivers and Ann Richards tell their own tales. Other chapters include: — Getting Through Grief– Jumping into the Job Market– Solo Parenting– Taking Charge of Personal Finances– Daring to Date AgainProviding common-sense techniques, A Woman’s Guide to Living Alone addresses the needs, hopes, and fears of every newly-single woman. With a combination of personal and expert guidance, it allows women to overcome their fears and embrace a new life on their own.

A Writer’s Grammar $65.97 A Writer”s Grammar is a lively, engaging, and writing-intensive introduction to grammar from a rhetorical and stylistic perspective. A Writer”s Grammar makes clear and interesting the relationship between good writing and grammatical knowledge. Presenting grammatical concepts in a hierarchical manner, it builds logically from basic elements to more advanced concepts, showing how grammar affects a writer”s style. Writing instruction within each section gives students guided practice to help them apply their knowledge and integrate a new and deeper understanding of language.

Aaron Copland And His World $31.95 Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America’s best-loved composers at a pivotal moment–as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This collection of seventeen essays by distinguished scholars of American music explores the stages of cultural change on which Copland’s long life (1900 to 1990) unfolded: from the modernist experiments of the 1920s, through the progressive populism of the Great Depression and the urgencies of World War II, to postwar political backlash and the rise of serialism in the 1950s and the cultural turbulence of the 1960s. Continually responding to an ever-changing political and cultural panorama, Copland kept a firm focus on both his private muse and the public he served. No self-absorbed recluse, he was very much a public figure who devoted his career to building support systems to help composers function productively in America. This book critiques Copland’s work in these shifting contexts. The topics include Copland’s role in shaping an American school of modern dance; his relationship with Leonard Bernstein; his homosexuality, especially as influenced by the writings of Andr Gide; and explorations of cultural nationalism. Copland’s rich correspondence with the composer and critic Arthur Berger, who helped set the parameters of Copland’s reception, is published here in its entirety, edited by Wayne Shirley. The contributors include Emily Abrams, Paul Anderson, Elliott Antokoletz, Leon Botstein, Martin Brody, Elizabeth Crist, Morris Dickstein, Lynn Garafola, Melissa de Graaf, Neil Lerner, Gail Levin, Beth Levy, Vivian Perlis, Howard Pollack, and Larry Starr.

About Face $19.27 About Face centers on the spirited relationship between Damion and Travis Face, two teenagers living in a small Kentucky town. Victims of their widowed father’s abuse, the brothers meet, and vow to help a young boy suffering a similar fate.

Act of God/Active God $9.19 This book raises in a straightforward fashion the faith-related questions that the victims/survivors of natural disasters have as a result of this experience. Is the disaster an act of God? Did God cause the disaster? If God is all powerful, why did God allow it to happen? The author then goes on to argue that God is active in our questions, confusions, and doubts, as well as in those who help – either individually or as communities of faith. He discusses the dynamics of the caregiver/care receiver relationship from the perspective of the care receiver to provide insights into how natural disaster victims can face an uncertain future with hope and faith. A final chapter for caregivers provides help for the emotional and spiritual health of those who assist others in times of disaster. Appendices provide practical, close-to-the-ground tools.

Action Research in Education $54.2 Informed by the author’s years of field research, teaching, and consulting, this readable, accessible book will assist novice researchers to understand qualitative, action research. Up-to-date coverage based on the work of earlier researchers clearly delineates the place of action research in the current research methodology scene; and speaks directly to the needs of those involved on a daily basis with classrooms and schools. Defines action research and clarifies its nature, providing a clear description of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative research. Offers step-by-step procedures for planning, implementing, and evaluating the kind of research projects that help people use their own understanding and expertise to work systematically through a data gathering process, and, ultimately, find a solution to the problem they are investigating. Includes an entire chapter addressing design, ethics, and validity-examines sampling, informed consent, permissions, credibility, the index of engagement (excitement, interest, apathy, resistance), and other factors. Featuers an entire chapter on Data Gathering-details the techniques of information gathering from a variety of sources-interviews, surveys, records, artifacts, and others. Includes a discussion of the relationship between action research and common educational practices. For novice researchers and educators.

Actually, It Is Your Parents’ Fault: Why Your Romantic Relationship Isn’t Working, and How to Fix It $72.43 Even early childhood experiences can dictate our love choices, creating elements in our personalities that both attract and repel our partners. Here are tools to help you evaluate your relationships and repair the damage.

Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe $63.32 This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the rules of relating for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.

Adopting a Pet for Dummies $19.99 Develop a loving relationship with your adopted pet Your fun and easy guide to the challenges and rewards of adopting a pet Thinking about adopting or rescuing an animal? This friendly guide gives you a no-nonsense introduction to the process and helps you select the right companion for you and your family. You”ll see how to handle everything from feeding, health care, and housetraining to obedience, behavior issues, and special needs for older and abused animals. Discover how to* Work with shelters and rescue groups* Navigate the procedures and paperwork* Find a supportive veterinarian* Adopt a dog, cat, bird, critter, or exotic pet* Help your pet adjust to its new home

Adventures in Odyssey $24.99 Just when you think you’ve got things figured out, it seems there’s always another surprise awaiting you! Future career opportunities are front and center for Connie, Jason’s relationship with Tasha has taken a new turn, and Eugene and Bernard have a courtroom experience that shows them the real meaning of justice. But that’s not all . . . While life goes on in Odyssey, something’s gone terribly wrong in the Middle East, where Mr. Whittaker’s been working for the past year. Before they know it, Jason and Eugene are caught in a web of international intrigue, complete with major archeological discoveries, kidnappings, and double-crossing secret agents! But will they be able to find Whit before the terrorists do? Volume 27 contains the following stories: BTV: Compassion Letting Go With a Little Help from My Friends The Time of Our Lives Memories of Jerry Blessings in Disguise What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Blind Justice A Question about Tasha The Search for Whit, 1 & 2

Adventures of the God Detectives $4.3 This book is about a group of young friends who form a club to discover the variety of ways in which God invites us into a relationship. It contains seven stories for children aged six to ten years old, and is illustrated with black and white line drawings. Each story is designed to help parents talk with children about spiritual experiences.

After Dark $5.99 A reluctant member of the first wives” club–her husband left her for a woman half her age–Elizabeth Lewis had sworn off men. Then sexy contractor Ron Powers charmed his way into her life–and into her bed. With Ron, Elizabeth finally learned what it felt like to be really loved. But just when she embarked on her journey of sensual self-discovery with Ron, misfortune rocked their relationship. Her ex wanted her back. And Ron”s radical past as a former Black Panther threatened their future. Elizabeth was torn between her past and present. She had to choose between two men who loved and needed her. But what about her needs? As always, Elizabeth will depend on her girlz –Stephanie, Barbara, Ann Marie and newbie Terri–to help her make the right choice!

After the Affair $14.99 A leading therapist and expert on infidelity offers emotional support and proven strategies to help couples overcome one of the most devastating events in any committed relationship. After the Affair is the first book to help readers survive this crisis, and guides both the hurt and unfaithful partners through the stages of grief.

Aftermath $1.21 AFTERMATH is set in the blue-collar town of East Breed’s, Pennsylvania. It is the dead of winter and the town simmers with barely concealed prejudices and unspoken rules, dividing the rich from the poor, the successful from the struggling. One Friday night in the parking lot of a chain restaurant, the tension erupts in a brutal fight between the privileged boys from St. Brendan’s and a group of kids from the local high school. Casey Fielder, the restaurant’s manager, watches the melee but does nothing to stop it. Once before he had called the police, only to be reprimanded by the home office. This time, he sticks to the corporate rules. When the fight ends, Colin Chase, a handsome, cocky student at St. Brendan’s, is left severely brain-damaged. In a compelling and at times heartbreaking narrative, Brian Shawver portrays the lasting effects of one night. Casey, ostracized by his unforgivable failure to act, loses his job, his girlfriend, and his sense of self-worth. For Lea, Colin’s mother, the incident ironically offers a way to reclaim the defiant, arrogant son she hardly knew and could barely love. Although she hopes that the guilty boy will be found and punished, Lea can’t escape the feeling that Colin somehow brought the horror upon himself. As she looks for clues that will help her understand him, she discovers his apparent devotion to a young woman named Jenny, and she seizes on this relationship as the key that will finally allow her to love her son unconditionally.

Agnes & Molly $7.34 International Book of the Year, TLS. The story of two friends, Agnes and Molly, and the man they both desire – Aksel, the father of two children. When Aksel”s ex-wife is taken ill, he asks a favor of Molly: would she take care of his children in her summerhouse? But Agnes, who is disabled, is jealous of Molly”s relationship with Aksel and his children. When Agnes comes to the summerhouse to help Molly, the real struggle for power begins, with the women battling for the affections of the children. This is a richly atmospheric novel about friendship, jealousy, and love.

Aka Dorothy Drab $30.75 It’s a universal problem. How does a guy get over a woman when all he wants to do is win her back? This is the quandary that confronts Heath Ketchup whenever he tries to deal with his feelings regarding his ex-wife, Audrey, who just happens to be one of the biggest porn stars in the adult industry. As much as he tries to convince himself that he’s over her, he can’t help but humorously agonize over the failings of their relationship and why they broke up. AKA Dorothy Drab is the story of a man trying his feeble best to move on with his life

Alchemy of Abundance $15.47 Jarow offers a practical guide–complete with a series of exercises and guided visualizations–to help cultivate one”s relationship with the universe by exploring 12 key areas on the pathway to fulfillment.

All About Me $30.27 In today”s celebrity-obsessed, sell-yourself culture, narcissism is becoming an increasingly prominent personal trait, one that can wreak havoc on interpersonal relationships. This original and compelling study explores the interplay of self-obsession and relationships and works to answer such questions as Why do people fall in love with narcissists? What do I do if I”m in a relationship with one? What creates a narcissist? and Am I a narcissist too? S trategies for dealing with a self-absorbed person and key techniques that can help make a relationship work are also offered.

All Dogs Need Some Training $9.95 Learn how to train your dog simply, humanely and effectively! This book will help you teach your dog basic skills like coming when called, heeling and walking on a leash. Even more, it will help you accomplish these things with a minimum of frustration and worry and a maximum of love. Author Liz Palika’s training philosophy is based on the bond between owner and pet. She focuses both on making the relationship between you and your dog stronger through training, and making your training time more effective by starting out with a good relationship. Your positive approach is the key to your dog’s successful training. Delightful drawings by award-winning artist Pam Posey-Tanzey remind us that, above all, working with your dog should be fun!A Howell Dog Book of Distinction

All I’ll Ever Need $14.99 The grueling past months finally seem about to blossom into a happy future together for Dr. Claire McCall and her fiance, John Cerelli. But their wedding plans are interrupted by circumstances so devastating they threaten everything Claire holds dear: her medical career, her relationship with John, and quite possibly her freedom.Working through the turmoil caused by a near rape, Claire has sought a counselor to help her untangle her emotions. What the counselor uncovers is shattering, but things are about to get worse. The man who assaulted her escapes from jail—and then, to top it off, Claire is accused of euthanizing a terminally ill patient.But the next death is the one that could shake Claire”s world to its foundation.How can so much be happening so fast—unless someone is choreographing this lethal nightmare? In this exciting sequel to Could I Have This Dance? and For the Rest of My Life, nothing may be as it seems. Not the present. And not the past.