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Walsh Froma
Strengthening Family Resilience
New York New York U.S.A.: Guilford Pubn 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 338 pages. "Drawing on her extensive experience as a family practitioner and researcher in this volume Froma Walsh presents an approach to all kinds of families that recognizes and makes use of their resilience and often hidden resources. Bringing substance to the promise of a strengths perspective this engaging informative and useful work is an invaluable resource for social work practitioners educators and students interested in families." --Ann Hartman DSW Visiting Distinguished Professor Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service New York Dean and Professor Emerita Smith College School for Social Work Northampton Massachusetts "For a field so steeped in pathology and so focused on the individual Froma Walsh's book is a breath of fresh air. Strengthening Family Resilience is clear and comprehensive incorporating research and clinical perspectives demonstrating through a positive longitudinal perspective how our lives can be transformed beyond trauma pain and tragedy. Resilience is a pivotal topic of our times essential to our survival and to our overcoming adversity. This book shifts perspective from family weakness and dysfunction to family potential resourcefulness strength and ability to rebound through collaborative efforts. Walsh provides a brilliant reformulation of resilience exploring the rich interpersonal context of families and communities within which resilience evolves." --Monica McGoldrick ACSW PhD h.c. Director The Family Institute of New Jersey Metuchen New Jersey "The ideas and clinical directions contained in this book are immediately usable by therapists of all persuasions. And what do we need more--in this world and in our offices--than a sound clear profoundly thoughtful method of dealing with stress that calls forth the strengths within us Walsh's book provides this in lively warm-hearted prose that summarizes the research reveals Walsh's years of interest and experience with the subject and gives useful clinical examples and content outlines that are every teacher's dream." --Betty Carter MSW "This volume is a wonderful guide to delineating and enhancing the interpersonal resources that families bring to meet the challenges and crises of their lives. The author weaves together her exceptional scholarship clinical wisdom and personal experience into a tapestry of great value for researchers and clinicians." --David Reiss MD Division of Research Department of Psychiatry George Washington University Medical Center Washington DC. Guilford Pubn Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045552 ???????? : 1572304081 9781572304086
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Cosby Bill;Poussaint Alvin F.
Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors
Nashville Tennessee U.S.A.: Thomas Nelson Inc 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 263 pages. Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint have a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America or for that matter the world. They address the crises of people who are stuck because of feelings of low self-esteem abandonment anger fearfulness sadness and feelings of being used undefended and unprotected. These feelings often impede their ability to move forward. The authors aim to help empower people make the daunting transition from victims to victors. Come On People! is always engaging and loaded with heart-piercing stories of the problems facing many communities. Thomas Nelson Inc Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045617 ???????? : 1595550925 9781595550927
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Kozol Jonathan
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
New York New York U.S.A.: Crown Pub 1988. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good clean condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Previous owner's signature in book front on blank page Betsy Creamer Feb. 1988. 25 pages show highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 261 pages. From Publishers Weekly To write this "jolting firsthand report" Kozol spent months among the homeless whose depressing stories interwoven with his commentaries tell of infant deaths malnutrition hunger loss of dignity and desperation. "This powerful volume" PW maintained " forces one to ask: 'What are our national priorities' " Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information Inc. From School Library Journal YA A horrifying staggering book about the homeless in this country as specifically exemplified by those who are housed in the Martinique Hotel in New York. Through direct simply stat ed interviews with several families in the Martinique over a period of time Kozol systematically strips away the stereotypic litany of what is wrong with welfare recipients too lazy to work etc. He shows repeated case histories of people held captive by a welfare sys tem that would rather pay the private sector $1900 a month to house them in squalor than give them perhaps a third of that amount for apartment rent and a chance to gain back their self-respect. There is much about this book that is not only infuriating but also uncomfort able; many of these people have previ ously been educated productive citi zens who have endured several life crises and lost everything. The true heart of this book however rests on two pointsthe lack of affordable housing for the poor and most tragical ly the children who will become adults with little education poor health no marketable skills and mental and emo tional scars from spending a childhood under these conditions. Kozol's writing is clear and reads easily due to his stark unembellished style. It is always the people who shine through; they are a testament to the human spirit. It is impossible to read this book and remain untouched. Barbara Weathers Du chesne Academy Houston Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information Inc. Crown Pub Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 044922 ???????? : 051756730X 9780517567302
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Pogrebin Letty Cottin
Among Friends: Who We Like Why We Like Them and What We Do With Them
McGraw-Hill 1987. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Nice clean condition. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine pages. 416 pages. Previous owner's signature in book front on blank page. 18 pages show light highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO tears inside book. From Publishers Weekly Pogrebin's work will help readers appreciate themselves as complex social beings as they learn to analyze the contradictions crises and rewards of their own friendships. A chapter on ending friendships "A mature person manages to grow both roots and wings" is particularly illuminating. Not surprisingly Pogrebin one of the founding editors of Ms. magazine and the author of Growing up Free a blueprint for nonsexist childrearing "welcomes any sign of a breakdown between categories be they racial or gender categories or the rigid dividing lines between the personal and professional aspects of our lives." She devotes the bulk of her book to exploring and encouraging alliances that bridge these gaps as well as the boundaries of age sexual preference socio-economic levels and disability. She comes down hard on male friendship for a lack of intimacy but cautions that women sometimes become "relationship-junkies." Throughout the provocative thesis is enlivened with anecdotes perceptively reasoned and well-documented although some of the research is overwhelming. 50000 first printing; $50000 ad/promo; author tour. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information Inc. From Library Journal Pogrebin analyzes friendship and friendship patterns in the United States. Relying on published research interviews and personal anecdotes she distinguishes seven basic relationships including friendship. She then discusses interferences to friendship among them love dependency and competitiveness; how friendships end; where and how people make friends; friendships in various ethnic groups; differences between men's and women's friendships; etc. After acknowledging the need for cross-sexual friendships Pogrebin concludes that women contribute more to such relationships by enhancing men's self-esteem and fulfilling their intimacy needs. Interesting and informative though overlong and undistinguished in style. Bonnie Hoffman A.C.S.W. North Fork Counseling Service Mattituck N.Y. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information Inc. McGraw-Hill Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 044977 ???????? : 0070504040 9780070504042
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Lorius Cassandra
Tantric Sex: Making Love Last
Barnes & Noble 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Illustrated throughout. NO writing or tears inside book. 243 pages. Discover new energy and inner vitality with this practical and accessible guide to using and enhancing tantric sexual energy. Barnes & Noble Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045036 ???????? : 0760781834 9780760781838
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Perlstein Linda
Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives Of Middle Schoolers
Ballantine Books 2004. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 275 pages. Suddenly they go from striving for A's to barely passing from fretting about cooties to obsessing for hours about crushes. Former chatterboxes answer in monosyllables; freethinkers mimic everything from clothes to opinions. Their bodies and psyches morph through the most radical changes since infancy. They are kids in the middle-school years the age every adult remembers well enough to dread. Here at last is an up-to-date anthropology of this critically formative period. Prize-winning education reporter Linda Perlstein spent a year immersed in the lunchroom classrooms hearts and minds of a group of suburban Maryland middle schoolers and emerged with this pathbreaking account. Perlstein reveals what's really going on under kids' don't-touch-me facade while they grapple with schoolwork puberty romance and identity. A must-read for parents and educators Not Much Just Chillin' offers a trail map to the baffling no-man's-land between child and teen. Ballantine Books Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 045031 ???????? : 0345475763 9780345475763
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Leman Dr. Kevkin
The Pleasers: Women Who Can't Say No and the Men Who Control Them
Fleming H Revell Co 1987. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. NO writing or tears inside book. 320 pages. Tight spine clean pages. Dustcover shows light wear NO tears. Fleming H Revell Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045061 ???????? : 0800715519 9780800715519
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Woititz Janet Geringer
Marriage on the Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic
Deerfield Beach Florida U.S.A.: HCI 1979. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 201 pages. From the author of the New York Times bestseller Adult Children of Alcoholics an invaluable guide for women dealing with alcoholic partners. HCI Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 045063 ???????? : 0932194176 9780932194176
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Smalley Gary; hael; Paul Robert S.
The Key to Your Child's Heart: Proven Steps That Will Help You Raise Motivated Obedient and Loving Children
Nashville Tennessee U.S.A.: W Pub Group 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine. NO tears inside book. 201 pages. 56 pages show light-yellow highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. A best-seller for nearly a dozen years this book of dependable and biblically based advice is now updated to reflect the parenting concerns of the '90s. Smalley discusses how to cultivate a successful parenting style ways to motivate your child ways to reopen a child's wounded spirit how to use parent-child contracts to teach responsibility ways to express loving support for your child and more. These practical and proven strategies can help you rear motivated obedient and loving children in a close-knit family. This is an excellent study aid for church-based parenting classes. W Pub Group Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045111 ???????? : 0849909473 9780849909474
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Dolan Sheila;Dolan Lian;Dolan Liz;Dolan Monica
Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
New York New York U.S.A.: Riverhead Books 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 370 pages. Illustrated. The Satellite Sisters are the fastest rising stars on public radio - five real sisters who grew up in a big family grew apart and then grew closer again connecting as adults in a positive supportive way. They have five personalities five points of view and five very different lives joined by a common bond. They are sisters in blood and in spirit-a connection that's uncomplicated and complex at the same time. But you don't have to have a sister to be a Satellite Sister. A Satellite Sister can be your best friend from high school your walking partner your great neighbor your college roommate or your friend from Mommy and Me. Your Satellite Sisters make you laugh tell you when you're wrong cheer you on offer advice whether you want it or not and help you make it through the day. In Satellite Sisters' UnCommon Senses the Dolan sisters share their approach to life-an approach that's rooted in big-family wisdom. Their theory: There are the five senses you're born with and then there are the five UnCommon Senses you acquire when you grow up in a family of ten 5 sisters 3 brothers 2 parents which prepare you for life in the real world. Riverhead Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045193 ???????? : 1573222089 9781573222082
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Gordon Mary
The Shadow Man : A Daughter's Search for Her Father
New York NY U.S.A.: Random House Incorporated 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 277 pages. "My father died when I was seven years old. I've always thought that was the most important thing anyone could know about me." The beloved lost father - the Shadow Man: in this searing memoir one of America's finest writers discovers the truth about the man whose romantic image defined her life. But who was David Gordon really In Mary Gordon's memories of him he was an erudite and charming man: an intellectual a writer and publisher a Harvard dropout and Jazz Age bohemian. But at midlife she began to question these loving memories and to go in search of the man whose presence - and absence - haunted her life. Unburying startling truths Gordon discovers both a devoted inventive and loving father and a person desperate to cover up the underside of the immigrant's encounter with the American dream. As Gordon tracks her father - in the archives in libraries in the middle of America - she uncovers lies despair madness: a man who lied about many things including his date and place of birth his native language his family his education. A Jew born in the last years of the nineteenth century he became a convert to Catholicism and to right-wing politics a literary critic who was also a pornographer and a vicious anti-Semite. As a realistic portrait of her father emerges Mary Gordon reevaluates herself in the light of these painful discoveries about her heritage and past. Random House, Incorporated Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045210 ???????? : 0679428852 9780679428855
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Ryan Joan Aho
Lessons from Our Children: A Tribute to the Wisdom of Kids
Deerfield Beach Florida U.S.A.: HCI 1999. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 205 pages. Readers will recognize the special children in their own lives or the special children they once were and will turn to Lessons from Our Children again and again for wisdom comfort and inspiration. From the author of Lessons from Mom and Lessons from Dad comes this third volume in a familial trilogy sure to inspire readers of all ages with the innocent wisdom and magic of children. The third volume in the author's Lessons series celebrates children's gifts to us all: innocence wonder laughter joy kindness courage resilience uncanny wisdom and love. This collection will inspire readers to look for and embrace these gifts in their own lives whether through the special children they know and love or through the child that dwells deep within each of us. As with its predecessors in the series Lessons from Mom and Lessons from Dad the author gathered stories from a wide array of sources--parents grandparents blended- and extended-family members foster parents teachers--all of whom recognized that a child's love and unique wisdom forever changed their lives for the better. Readers will rediscover wonder innocence and irrepressible joy--gifts that only children can bestow. Each of the heartwarming from-the-mouths-of-babes selections in this compilation honors the important role that children play in life emphasizing that adults need children as much as children need adults. From the hilarious to the profound the selections in this book illustrate how invaluable children are to deepening our understanding of life--and of ourselves. Most of all the wisdom of children expressed in this collection will remind readers of the most important ingredient for achieving success and contentment in life: love. This book is for anyone who has ever loved a child or who often fondly recalls magical childhood moments. Readers will recognize the special children in their own lives or the special children they once were and will turn to Lessons from Our Children again and again for wisdom comfort and inspiration. HCI Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 045307 ???????? : 1558746919 9781558746916
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Hanauer Cathi Editor
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex Solitude Work Motherhood and Marriage
Perennial 2003. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 292 pages. Pages show light tanning. Virginia Woolf introduced us to the Angel in the House now prepare to meet. The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any time in history yet many smart ambitious contemporary women are finding themselves angry dissatisfied stressed out. Why are they dissatisfied And what do they really want These questions form the premise of this passionate provocative funny searingly honest collection of original essays in which twenty-six women writers ranging in age from twenty-four to sixty-five single and childless or married with children or four times divorced invite readers into their lives minds and bedrooms to talk about the choices they've made what's working and what's not. With wit and humor in prose as poetic and powerful as it is blunt and dead-on these intriguing women offer details of their lives that they've never publicly revealed before candidly sounding off on: The difficult decisions and compromises of living with lovers marrying staying single and having children The perpetual tug of war between love and work family and career The struggle to simultaneously care for ailing parents and a young family The myth of co-parenting Dealing with helpless mates and needy toddlers The constrictions of traditional women's roles as well as the cliches of feminism Anger at laid-back live-in lovers content to live off a hardworking woman's checkbook Anger at being criticized for one's weight Anger directed at their mothers right and wrong And - well more anger. This book was born out of anger begins Cathi Hanauer but the end result is an intimate sharing of experience that will move amuse and enlighten. The Bitch in the House is a perfect companion for your students as they plot a course through the many voices of modern feminism. This is the sound of the collective voice of successful women today-in all their anger grace and glory. From The Bitch In the House: I believed myself to be a feminist and I vowed never to fall into the same trap of domestic boredom and servitude that I saw my mother as being fully entrenched in; never to settle for a life that was as I saw it lacking independence authority and respect. E.S. Maduro page 5 Here are a few things people have said about me at the office: 'You're unflappable.' 'Are you ever in a bad mood' Here are things people okay the members of my family have said about me at home: ''Mommy is always grumpy.' 'Why are you so tense' 'You're too mean to live in this house and I want you to go back to work for the rest of your life!' Kristin van Ogtrop page 161 I didn't want to be a bad mother I wanted to be my mother-safe protective rational calm-without giving up all my anger because my anger fueled me. Elissa Schappell page 195. Perennial Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 045306 ???????? : 0060936460 9780060936464
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Pipher Mary
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
Riverhead Books 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 328 pages. Overview Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia the phenomenal bestseller about the experiences of adolescent girls today changed forever how we understand their world and ours. Now Mary Pipher turns to an equally troubled passage the journey into old age. This is a book about our parents and grandparents because they don't grow old in a vacuum. The process can be just as painful for us daughters and sons granddaughters and grandsons as for them. The gradual turning of life's tide can take us by surprise as we find ourselves unprepared to begin caring for those who have always cared for us. Writing from her experience as a therapist and from interviews with families and older people Pipher offers us scenarios that bridge the generation gap. And in these poignant and hopeful stories of real children adults and elders we find the secrets to empathy. With her inimitable combination of respect and realism Pipher gets inside the minds hearts and bodies of elder men and women. And we begin to understand fully that the landscape of age is truly that of another country. Today's world is vastly different from the one our parents grew up in. It's not the world in which helping aging parents meant stopping in at their house every day; in which children could learn about the richness of life from their grandparents; and in which grandparents and children were sustained and nourished by the unique bond between those on the opposite ends of a lifetime. We need new ways of supporting one another new ways of sharing our time our energy and our love. In Another Country Mary Pipher will show us how. Riverhead Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045329 ???????? : 1573221295 9781573221290
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Zepeda Gwendolyn
To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him
Houston Texas U.S.A.: Arte Publico Pr 2004. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean and bright show slight wear NO tears. Tight spine bright pages. 180 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. With dark knife-in-the ribs humor and poignant glimpses of youth and early adulthood Gwendolyn Zepeda's first book is the literati's version of television variety shows of the 1970s. Chock full of sharp observations in a narrative that jumps from personal essay to a parody of romance novels to inventive fiction this collection spans a wide range of themes: the complications of being a "half-white child of hippies born in Houston in 1971" and raised in a largely Mexican barrio . . . "How to Be a Trailer Trash Housewife" . . . and a midnight dance with a giant cockroach. Though her creations aren't easy to behold they are assertive calling out Zepeda's own lessons learned as she strives to hammer out a life. She writes in "To the Last Man I Slept with and to Everybody Else" a variation on the title story "You wanted to be the rock star the ninja the cowboy in black. I wanted to be with those people so I pretended they were you. But secretly I have always been all of those things." Weaving her exploration of family life love the struggle for economic stability and the search for a personal creative space Zepeda's brash voice cuts at society's stereotypes at once critiquing those around her and herself. Family friends and the unwitting strangers around her no one is safe from her commentary. Not for the shy or the meek Zepeda's bold ruminations ring clearly through all her pieces whether tough dramatizations or tongue-in-cheek fiction. She debuts a voice worth hearing that challenges "If you want to you can watch.". Arte Publico Pr Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 043919 ???????? : 1558854061 9781558854062
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Jones Daniel Editor
The Bastard On The Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard To Explain Their Feelings About Love Loss Fatherhood And Freedom
William Morrow & Co 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 286 pages. Synopsis: Turns out that The Bitch In the House was only half the story. Daniel Jones husband of Cathi Hanauer has rallied the men for the "literary equivalent of The Full Monty" in which a group of thoughtful passionate and often hilarious men lay it bare when it comes to their wives and girlfriends their hopes and fears. Many of these husbands and fathers contemplate aspects of their personal lives they've never before revealed - kicking open the door on their marriages and sex lives their fathering and domestic conflicts their most intimate relationships and situations. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 043987 ???????? : 0060565349 9780060565343
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Riera Michael
Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying
New York New York U.S.A.: Da Capo Press 2003. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 275 pages. Book Description Publication Date: April 15 2003 At last a book of sage advice that will help frustrated parents reconnect with their teenager and keep that connection even in today's often-crazy world.The first step is simple: realizing that inside every teen resides two very different people-the regressed child and the emergent adult. The emergent adult is seen at school on the playing field in his first job and in front of his friends' families. Unfortunately his parents usually see only the regressed child-moody and defiant-and if they're not on the lookout they'll miss seeing the more agreeable increasingly adult thinker in their midst.With ingenious strategies for coaxing the more attractive of the two teen personalities into the home family psychologist Mike Riera gives new hope to beleaguered and harried parents. From moving from a "managing" to a "consulting" role in a teen's life from working with a teen's uniquely exasperating sleep rhythms to having real conversations when only monosyllables have been previously possible Staying Connected to Your Teenager demonstrates ways to bring out the best in a teen-and consequently in an entire family. Da Capo Press Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 043855 ???????? : 0738208450 9780738208459
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Fried Stephen
Husbandry: Sex Love & Dirty Laundry -- Inside the Minds of Married Men
Bantam Books 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 179 pages. Overview: At last one husband reveals the answers to some of mankind's greatest mysteries. Why do men hog the remote Refuse to stop and ask for directions Have such a hard time sharing their emotions Why can't they drop their socks in the laundry basket instead of near it What does a man mean when he says uh-huh No it doesn't always mean he's not listening. In this wickedly observant collection of essays Stephen Fried widely praised as an investigative journalist turns his attention to the subject of marriage-his own and others. The result is a daring provocative often hilarious read that throws incisive light on mysteries that have long plagued womankind: the inner workings of the male mind. Originally published as a series of popular columns in Ladies' Home Journal and now compiled in one volume at the request of his enthusiastic readers Fried's pitch-perfect essays fearlessly tackle the realities of love sex and marriage with both wit and tenderness. Drawing from candid conversations with fellow husbands as well as with his own wife Husbandry will surprise disarm entertain and tell you more about the man in your life than you could ever learn by asking him. Bantam Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 043672 ???????? : 0553806653 9780553806656
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Ellison Katherine
The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
New York New York U.S.A.: Basic Books 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 279 pages. Synopsis: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist implodes the myth of the dumbed-down mom offering startling scientific evidence that motherhood gives women unexpected mental advantages The Washington Post - Anne Glusker: Like Ann Crittenden in last year's If You've Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything Ellison is looking to persuade corporations individual bosses spouses and mothers themselves that motherhood need not be a hindrance but rather an asset. As many have pointed out this great conundrum -- how to balance juggle jigger rejigger sequence or cram motherhood and work into one life -- is the great unfinished business of feminism. Biography: Katherine Ellison has a mommy brain herself. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter veteran foreign correspondent and a working mother of two young boys. She is also the author of two previous books. She has written on the topic of "The Mommy Brain" for Salon.com and Working Mother. Ms. Ellison lives in San Anselmo California. Basic Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 043432 ???????? : 0465019056 9780465019052
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Wallerstein Judith S.; Blakeslee Sandra
The Good Marriage: How & Why Love Lasts
Houghton Mifflin 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. No writing marks or tears inside book. 352 pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 352 pages. Ours is a culture of divorce yet some couples have happy long-lasting marriages. What is their secret When so many marriages fail miserably why do others succeed This book has the answers. Judith Wallerstein coauthor of Second Chances the landmark bestseller on divorce now turns her attention to marriages that work. Based on a groundbreaking study of fifty couples who consider themselves happily married The Good Marriage offers an entirely fresh vision of that most complex of human relationships. Wallerstein describes what she considers the four basic types of marriage: romantic rescue companionate and traditional. She identifies the natural stages of a marriage and explains the nine psychological tasks - including separating from the family of origin and making a safe place for conflict - that must be undertaken by anyone committed to having a good marriage. Wallerstein and coauthor Sandra Blakeslee introduce us to a number of couples who speak honestly and eloquently about the intimate interiors of their marriages. We meet Sara and Matt whose passion for each other still burns strong many years after their first electrifying encounter; Helen and Keith who discovered that marriage can heal the wounds of an unhappy childhood; Ellis and Janet who each brought two children to their second marriage and made it work. Thanks to the astonishing candor of these couples we learn a great deal about how partners in a good marriage overcome difficult obstacles resolve the conflicts that come with parenting and keep love alive despite the myriad pressures of modern life. The men and women interviewed by Wallerstein readily admit that even the best relationship requires hard work and continuing negotiation. But they also convey an inspirational message for almost all of them feel that their marriage is their single greatest accomplishment. The Good Marriage explains why and its lively mix of storytelling and analysis will challenge every couple to think. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 043084 ???????? : 0899199690 9780899199696
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Stern Daniel N.
Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees Feels and Experiences
New York New York U.S.A.: Basic Books 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Near-new condition. No remainder marks of price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Dustcover is clean shows light wear NO tears. 166 pages. Of particular interest to new parents will be this imagined ``diary'' in which Stern The First Relationship father of five and psychiatry professor at Cornell University Medical Center traces the development of baby Joey from infancy to about four years of age. In prose that characterizes Joey's responses to his world for instance the use of ``I'' is reserved until Joey is four and a half months Stern illuminates the development of volition memory and a sense of self as they take place in five overlapping ``worlds of experience.'' The brief diary entries are expanded in descriptive sections in which Stern interprets an infant's reaction to sensory and emotional experiences; in these direct informative accounts the baby is referred to as ``she.'' An inventive and highly accessible approach to an endlessly absorbing subject. Basic Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 043051 ???????? : 0465016421 9780465016426
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Collins Donald;Jordan Catheleen;Coleman Heather
An Introduction to Family Social Work
F.E. Peacock Publishers Inc. 1999. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. 286 pages. NO tears inside book. Tight spine. Highlighting and/or writing/underlining present throughout book. Does NOT interfere with reading. F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc. Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 043127 ???????? : 0875814247 9780875814247
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Evans Patricia
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond: Expanded Second Edition
Adams Media Corporation 1996. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated Second Expanded Edition. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. NO remainder marks or clippings. 221 pages. Verbal abuse doesn't leave the same physical evidence as battery but it can be just as painful and can actually take longer to recover from. The new edition of this important reference covers the most recent developments in dealing with verbal abuse and answers the questions readers ask most on the subject. From the Publisher A new edition of the best-selling guide to a verbally abusive relationship discusses the potential damage of verbal abuse how to identify a problem relationship and how to change or leave such relationships. Adams Media Corporation Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 043215 ???????? : 1558505822 9781558505827
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Jones Daniel Editor
The Bastard On The Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard To Explain Their Feelings About Love Loss Fatherhood And Freedom
William Morrow & Co 2004. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom outside page edges. NO price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 286 pages. Synopsis: Turns out that The Bitch In the House was only half the story. Daniel Jones husband of Cathi Hanauer has rallied the men for the "literary equivalent of The Full Monty" in which a group of thoughtful passionate and often hilarious men lay it bare when it comes to their wives and girlfriends their hopes and fears. Many of these husbands and fathers contemplate aspects of their personal lives they've never before revealed - kicking open the door on their marriages and sex lives their fathering and domestic conflicts their most intimate relationships and situations. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042309 ???????? : 0060565349 9780060565343
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Belsky Jay;Kelly John
The Transition to Parenthood: How a First Child Changes a Marriage Why Some Couples Grow Closer and Others Apart Based on a Landmark Study
New York New York U.S.A.: Delacorte Pr 1994. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover is clean shows light wear NO tears. 288 pages. ONLY writing/mark inside is gift inscription in book front on blank page: " To Scott and Laurie As you embark upon an incredible journey. Love Aunt Janet Christmas 1996". NO tears inside book. From Publishers Weekly: For seven years in the 1980s Belsky professor of human development at Penn State University studied the impact of new parenthood on 250 couples from about three months before birth to the child's third birthday. Aided by freelance writer Kelly Belsky weaves extended case studies of three couples into his description of the changes brought about by the arrival of a baby; he examines the parents' relationship in six particular arenas: self gender ideology emotionality conflict management communication and expectations. Also studied is the effect of new parenthood as experienced by those falling into three personality types: traditional transitional and egalitarian. The authors find that the challenge of changing from couple to parents is made most smoothly by pairings of like types. Extensively researched and engagingly offered the information in this book will be welcomed by family and marriage counselors and those whose future--or present--includes a first baby. Author tour. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information Inc. From Booklist: Belsky and Kelly's book ups the number of only a few works available about the often-stressful effects of a first baby on marriage. As they point out theirs is not a guidebook but a report: Transition is meant to be read after the fact. Belsky utilizes his brainchild the Penn State Child and Family Development Project for much of the information. Most of the book focuses on three couples over the course of seven years wherein it is decided whether they are Severe Decliners Moderate Decliners No Changers or Improvers. Full of personal details and thoroughly researched if a bit long and academic Transition does manage to maintain interest. Jo Peer-Haas. Delacorte Pr Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042046 ???????? : 0385306164 9780385306164
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King Cassandra
Queen of Broken Hearts
Hyperion Books 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Brand-new book. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. NO writing or tears. 412 pages. Illustrated endpapers. From Booklist: Divorce therapist Clare Ballenger helps women cope from her office affectionately know as Casa Loco in the quaint town of Fairhope Alabama but her own life and those of loved ones haven't benefited. Clare has misgivings about her best friend Dory and her marriage to charismatic and needy Son. Clare misses signs of trouble in her daughter's marriage and has yet to deal with the death of her husband. Clare wants her patients and friends to go forward while she is stuck in the past refusing to let a new man into her life and her bed until a rivalry develops between an old friend and a Yankee transplant. Lex Yarbrough retired navy captain and new owner of the marina wants Clare and is not willing to settle for friendship. This forces Clare to confront her past and start living in the present. King's vivid and charming portrayal of southern small-town life enriches this moving and genuine story of midlife revelations. Patty Engelmann Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved. Hyperion Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042056 ???????? : 1401301770 9781401301774
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Sedaris David
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Little Brown & Company 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks. Inside-to-front dustcover flap has been clipped. Tight spine bright pages. Stated First Edition. 257 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. - In this phenomenal #1 bestseller David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal doesn't it Yet Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life revealing the absurdity teeming below the surface exposing a world alive with hidden motives and obscure desires. In DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today gives us his richest book yet. Author Biography: David Sedaris is a playwright a regular commentator for National Public Radio and the author of five internationally bestselling books. He travels extensively through Europe and the United States on lecture tours and lives in France. Little Brown & Company Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042103 ???????? : 0316143464 9780316143462
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Parrot Les III
The Control Freak
Wheaton Illinois U.S.A.: Tyndale House Publishers 2000. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. 5 pages show yellow highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO other writing marks or tears inside book. 193 pages. Covers are bright and clean NO tear. Product Description: They're pushy. Forceful. Impatient. Always in a hurry. And they're usually ready to tell others how to do their jobs "better." Control freaks. Maybe you know one. Maybe you are one. What are you to do Psychologist Les Parrott a recovering control freak helps readers relate better to the control freaks around them. And if you are a control freak Les will help you become willing to lose the control you love. The book includes self-tests and a lifelong prescription for healthier relationships. Tyndale House Publishers Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 042129 ???????? : 0842337938 9780842337939
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Chu Valentin
The Yin-Yang Butterfly: Ancient Chinese Sexual Secrets for Western Lovers
J P Tarcher 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 253 pages. Synopsis: Rich with anecdotes practical advice and poetry from Chinese erotic literature this beautifully designed book brings 2000 years of Eastern sexology to Western lovers of . J P Tarcher Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042153 ???????? : 087477747X 9780874777475
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Hansen Erik Fosnes;Christensen Nadia translated Form the Norwegian
Tales of Protection
Harvest Books 2003. Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. New/Unread condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 500 pages. Synopsis: An eccentric scientist lies dead in his coffin reflecting on the past and his last experiment collecting random incidents from human history and finding the underlying pattern that connects them. His reveries lead him to tell two other tales one of a doomed lighthouse keeper on a Swedish island and the other of a rivalry among Renaissance artists and finally he tells a startling tale from his own youth. For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Isak Dinesen Erik Fosnes Hansen's imaginative narration brings an original and searching inquiry into why things happen the way they do and suggests a theory of "seriality"a half-science about the power of human connections. Publishers Weekly: The theory that there is a law of series that binds together seemingly random events espoused by real-life scientist Paul Kammerer whose biography was written by Arthur Koestler is at the heart of this enigmatic richly suggestive novel. Wilhelm Bolt a mining engineer is convinced by a near-death experience in a mine that there are unknown protective influences at work in the world. As a rich retired reprobate living on an estate in the Norwegian countryside he devotes himself to proving Kammerer's thesis by collecting synchronicity stories. When he dies he leaves his fortune and his quest to his grand-niece Lea much to the chagrin of the rest of the family. Two long stories set in different times and places illustrate Bolt's hypothesis. In the first the ghost of a drowned sailor from a vessel that foundered on a clear night in heavy seas bothers the lighthouse master of the Sand n Lighthouse Station Kalle Jacobsson; more ghosts appear to Kalle's epileptic daughter Josefa. The other story takes place in Rome in 1497 when a rich exiled Florentine merchant Lorenzo del Vetro afflicted with a rare skin disease is cured by an old ill-painted picture of the Virgin and sends his lackey Fiorello to Padua to track down the painter's assistant. Hansen favors the Russian doll approach to stories in which one story is nested inside another. His "serialism" is romantic in the deepest sense allegories and narratives contain the deep structure of the world while math and science are merely the mutable surface. The craft of 19th-century fiction and the complexity of 20th-century thought make this a gloriously rewarding novel. July Forecast: Psalm at Journey's End Hansen's first novel to be published in English was critically acclaimed. Tales of Protection which the Norwegian press has aptly compared to the work of Isak Dinesen bumps the writer up several notches. The comparison to Dinesen and a lushly gorgeous jacket should help bolster his readership in the U.S. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. Biography: Erik Fosnes Hansen born in 1965 is the author of Psalm at Journey's End a number-one bestseller in his native Norway. He lives in Oslo. Harvest Books Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 041753 ???????? : 0156027941 9780156027946
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Karrass Chester Louis
Give and Take: The Complete Guide to Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
New York New York U.S.A.: Ty Crowell Co 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Dustcover has slight tearing & has been price-clipped - Book is in Fine Condition - Orange boards with black lettering - NO writing marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 280 pages. Learn how to use time in their favor how to break a deadlock how to communicate effectively via the telephone how to make concession without losing ground and at least 200 other negotiation strategies and tactics. Ty Crowell Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041813 ???????? : 0690005660 9780690005660
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Harley Willard Jr.
His Needs Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
Fleming H Revell Co 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO tears inside book. 211 pages. Previous owner's name in book front on blank page Jayne Stuckel. 38 pages show light highlighting and/or writing. Does NOT interfere with reading. Dustcover is clean NO tears. His Needs Her Needs identifies the ten most important marital needs and teaches husbands and wives how to fulfill each other's needs. Couples who are irresistible to each other when their marriage begins may become incompatible if they fail to meet ten very important needs.Dr. Harley helps you retain and develop your irresistible qualities. You'll learn to avoid the common errors that lead to affairs and divorce. Fleming H Revell Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041823 ???????? : 0800714784 9780800714789
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Tyler Anne
A Patchwork Planet
Fawcett Books 1999. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Covers are bright and clean show light wear NO tears. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 297 pages. Pages show light tanning. Barnaby Gaitlin is one of Anne Tyler's most promising unpromising characters. At 30 he has yet to graduate from college is already divorced and is used to defeat. His mother thrives on reminding him of his adolescent delinquency and debt to his family and even his daughter is fed up with his fecklessness. Still attuned as he is to "the normal quota for misfortune" Barney is one of the star employees of Baltimore's Rent-a-Back Inc. which pays him an hourly wage to help old people and one young agoraphobe run errands and sort out their basements and attics. Anne Tyler makes you admire most of these mothball eccentrics though they're far from idealized and hope that they can stave off nursing homes and death. There is for example "the unstoppable little black grandma whose children phoned us on an emergency basis whenever she threatened to overdo." And then there's Barnaby's new girlfriend's aunt who will eventually accuse him of theft--"Over her forearm she carried a Yorkshire terrier neatly folded like a waiter's napkin. 'This is my doorbell' she said thrusting him toward me. 'I'd never have known you were out here if not for Tatters.'" These people are wonderful creations but their lives are more brittle than cuddly Barnaby knows better than to think of them as friends because they'll only die on him. Yet his job offers at least glimpses of roots and affection. Helping an old lady set up her Christmas tree on New Year's Eve! gives him the chance to hang a singular ornament--a snowflake "pancake-sized slightly crumpled snipped from gift wrap so old that the Santas were smoking cigarettes." And Barnaby himself is sharp and impatient at painful--and painfully funny--family dinners apparently unable to keep his finger off the auto-self-destruct button every time his life improves. As much as his superb creator he is a poet of disappointment resignation and minute transformation. --Kerry Fried. Fawcett Books Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 041830 ???????? : 0449003981 9780449003985
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Yorke Christy
Summer of Glorious Madness
Berkley Pub Group 2004. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 349 pages . NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Romancer Yorke Song of the Seals 2003 etc. takes on manic depression. When Dr. Elizabeth Shreve a Marin County shrink is shaken by the end of her 15-year marriage-following her surgeon husband's affair with his young head nurse-and by their teenaged daughter's emotional reactions she gets a call to commit a former patient who has been found wandering bloody and wild-eyed in Golden Gate Park. It's Jack a charismatic landscape gardener she'd treated after he separated from his wife. He's in a manic phase and seems to have been in a fight though no victim is found. Elizabeth stabilizes him with lithium but he refuses the dosage after his 72-hour commitment. When she puts him into a therapy group he walks out. The group members are among the novel's well-drawn minor characters. Jack considers himself clairvoyant sensing not only the feelings of the plants he works with but the thoughts in people around him. Despite her rationalizations Elizabeth finds his accurate comments on her own private life disconcerting and before long she's breaking the professional rules having dinner with Jack discussing her private life finding herself more and more attracted to his manic high which he ascribes to falling in love. Being with Jack brings back memories of her bipolar mother who drove off a cliff with her six-month-old daughter when Elizabeth was seven. Part of Jack's appeal is his genius at landscaping and his gift for working with botanic oddities not unlike psychiatric oddities. Yorke's descriptions of manic depression and its treatment are illuminating but then she shifts from romance to the courtroom drama of Jack's trial for the attempted murder of his estranged wife'snew boyfriend the night he was found in the park. Elizabeth takes the stand to argue for his insanity plea but this summer romance no longer seems so much glorious as ill-advised. Lyrical but flaws in plotting and tone make it come out half-baked. Berkley Pub Group Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 041856 ???????? : 0425196135 9780425196137
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Best Herbert
Young'un
The Macmillan Company 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good condition. Green boards are clean show light wear. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show light tanning. - NO writing marks or tears inside book - Apparent First Edition "A Wartime Book" 271 pages . The Macmillan Company Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041859
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Ornish Dean MD. M. D.
Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
HarperCollins 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 286 pages. Many people know Dean Ornish as the doctor who proved that symptoms of heart disease can be reversed with a regimen of a low-fat diet exercise and stress reduction. In Love & Survival he concentrates on the less tangible aspects of a healthful life. Through anecdotes and dozens of scientific studies Ornish demonstrates that personal intimacy and other aspects of emotional well-being--all the elements that make up what we call "love"--are as important to our physical condition as to our mental health. Not only do these positive emotions motivate us to make better lifestyle choices Ornish argues they also have a powerful direct effect on our bodies giving us stronger immune systems better cardiovascular functioning and longer life expectancies. But the benefits of opening our hearts to others go beyond curing our bodies of disease; it's also the first step toward healing our entire lives. From Booklist: With best-sellers on reducing stress and modifying diet to alleviate and reverse the effects of physical heart disease to his credit Ornish now tackles "emotional and spiritual heart disease" the remedy for which consists of "love and intimacy." Ornish argues that affection is crucial to health with research findings as well as clinical-anecdotal evidence. The second of six fat chapters presents studies demonstrating that those who give and receive love are healthier than those who don't; this is intriguing and persuasive testimony that many may find squares with common sense. Succeeding chapters present the anecdotal evidence beginning with Ornish's account of his own life-reversal at 40 he found he was far better at giving than living his own advice and continuing with advice on behaving and speaking so as to foster love the story of a middle-aged physician Ornish's patient learning to heal his heart disease by coming to terms with anger and the massive final chapter's interviews with other physicians and healers about their experience with the healing powers of love. Ornish conceives love broadly bringing in the love of God as well as of mate family and friends and he presents commitment as crucial to loving relationships especially marriage although his is a sadder-but-wiser perspective on matrimony than the never-divorced Catherine M. Wallace's in Fidelity. HarperCollins Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 042003 ???????? : 0060172134 9780060172138
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Seiffert Rachel
Afterwards
New York New York U.S.A.: Pantheon Books 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Small remainder dot on bottom outside page edges. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. 328 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. Synopsis: When Alice and Joseph meet they fall quickly into a tentative but sincere relationship. She is a nurse he a house painter and while both are still young and hopeful about this new love each of them carries an emotional burden. Alice's father has been a yawning absence all her life and just recently her beloved grandmother who helped to raise her-passed away. For his part Joseph refuses to speak about his experiences as a soldier in Northern Ireland and Alice suspects that his general reticence hides an even more deeply troubled past. In this powerful story of guilt and privacy Seiffert asks: To love someone must you know everything about them The New York Times - Kathryn Harrison Seiffert writes with economy accomplishing in a line what many can't in a page and producing a work that's elegant in its seemingly organic shape. Even better she doesn't betray the effort the art required to render that shape. Her prose functions as a camera might with the added power to reveal unvoiced thought as well as dialogue and her omniscient narrative slides unobtrusively in and out of various points of view. Her discipline is such that her characters' internal reflections seem utterly authentic never devolving into the inconsequential babble often presented as stream-of-consciousness. One of the significant accomplishments of Afterwards is a coiling suspense driven more by psychology than by circumstance. Biography: Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Seiffert has also received a David T. K. Wong award from PEN International. After living in Scotland and Germany she now resides in London. Pantheon Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041424 ???????? : 0375422609 9780375422607
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Sontag Rachel
House Rules: A Memoir
New York New York U.S.A.: Ecco Pr 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO remainder mark or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 262 pages. Synopsis: At an early age Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface he was a well-respected suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating punishments. When she was twelve he duct-taped her stereo dial to National Public Radio measured the length of her hair and fingernails with a ruler and regulated when she could shower. A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp House Rules explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship and his equally manipulative relationships with his wife and other daughter. As Rachel's mother cedes all her power to her husband and her sister fades into the background of their family life Rachel fights to escape and later to make sense of what remains of her family. Publishers Weekly: Sontag a doctor's daughter grew up in a family that seemed every bit the normal suburban ideal. She and her sister were raised to value book smarts as well as worldly experience. What those outside of the family didn't know was that the reason Sontag was so accomplished and committed to her extracurricular activities was that she would've done anything to get away from her father Stephen. By enforcing a peculiar system of rules and consequences he micromanaged every moment of her life tape-recording her conversations measuring the length of her fingernails and locking all the phones in a safe when he left the house. When Sontag broke the rules regardless of circumstance he would verbally abuse her for hours dictating letters of apology from her to him "I am a selfish rotten worthless brat" etc. Sontag's mother Ellen reneged on plans to divorce him for years perhaps partly because Stephen prescribed her into complacency with lithium. In adulthood Sontag found herself caught in self-defeating patterns that smacked of her father's thrall. Struggling to break free she even resorted to homelessness before finally severing her relationship with Stephen. Sontag's is a brave account not only of what it's like to take the brunt of an abusive parent's wrath but of what it means to have the courage to leave. Ecco Pr Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041422 ???????? : 0061341223 9780061341229
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Tannen Deborah
You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives
Random House Inc 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $26.00. Stated First Edition. Number line: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 237 pages. Review: Siblings will jump on this book to read about pigeonholing . . . power dynamics . . . and the coded messages fond or furious that only the person who knows you best will understand. O: The Oprah Magazine If you have a sister you will probably recognize every detail and laugh or cry. The Daily Beast Tannen's very talented ear allows her to see inside our most intense relationships using the windows of our words. Baltimore Sun Love/hate doesn't begin to describe the elation and heartbreak the humor and perplexed contradictions revealed in this delightful book when sisters speak of and to each other. The Philadelphia Inquirer Product Description "I love her to death. I can't imagine life without her" a woman says about her sister. Another remarks "I don't want anyone to kill my sister because I want to have that privilege myself." With these two comments begins this eye-opening and entertaining new book. New York Timesbestselling author Deborah Tannen is renowned for illuminating the way we communicate and revolutionizing relationships in the process. What she did for women and men in You Just Don't Understand and mothers and daughters in You're Wearing THAT she now does for sisters in a groundbreaking book that explores one of the most powerful and perplexing relationships in our lives. Conversations between sisters reveal a deep and constant tug between two dynamics an impulse towards closeness and an impulse towards competition as sisters are continually compared to each other. When you're with her you laugh your head off and can giggle and be silly like when you were kids. But she also might be the one person who can send you into a tailspin with just one wrong word. For many women a sister is both. With a witty and wise voice Tannen shares insights and anecdotes from well over a hundred women she interviewed along with moving and funny recollections of her own two sisters. You'll come away with a profound new understanding as well as effective techniques to improve and accessible solutions for problems in this unique and precious relationship. Random House Inc Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041478 ???????? : 1400066328 9781400066322
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Danziger Paula; Martin Ann M.
Snail Mail No More
Scholastic 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 307 pages. - Best friends Elizabeth and TaraStarr are still totally different. TaraStarr accessorizes with glitter and sequins and loves the spotlight. Elizabeth loves reading and writing poetry and hates to be the center of attention. Though the two live far from each other they continue to correspond regularly now via E-mail. But distance and life events out of their control put the girls' friendship to the test. An unforgettable testament to the power of friendship. Scholastic Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041497 ???????? : 0439063353 9780439063357
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Mori Kyoko
Stone Field True Arrow
New York New York U.S.A.: Metropolitan Books 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good clean copy. NO price clippings. Small remainder mark on top outside page edges. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing or tears inside book. 279 pages. Synopsis: In her debut novel for adults Kyoko Mori has drawn on ancient myths reworked with her hallmark lush and lyrical prose to probe the eternal question: Given the fragility of life is love too great a risk Publishers Weekly: Simple language and strong emotion are effectively used to relate the story of Maya Ishida a 35-year-old Japanese-American woman who must confront her painful past in order to re-evaluate her safe but soul-crushing present. Maya works as an artisan weaving cloth and making clothes. She's married to high school English teacher Jeff and they live placidly in Wisconsin near her childhood friend Yuko. When Maya is informed that her father whom she hasn't seen for 25 years has died in Osaka it is the enclosed drawing that jars her memory: her artist father drew a picture of the day 10-year-old Maya left Japan to move to Minneapolis with her mother Kay who had abandoned her husband and Maya three years earlier. Maya attempts to understand why after she moved to the States she never heard from her father again; why the letters she wrote him were returned unopened; why he allowed her to be raised by cruel selfish Kay who has tried to erase every trace of her Japanese origins and encourages her daughter to do the same. In the process Maya comes to terms with her passionless marriage learning to cope with the fear of being alone and falling in love for the first time. This first foray into adult fiction by YA author and memoirist Mori Shizuko's Daughter; The Dream of Water is graceful in its simplicity of language and in the subtle way in which Eastern and Western folk tales are interlaced with the plot line. The pace of the book is perhaps too leisurely maintaining a calm unruffled tone even at the emotional apex but despite the mannered structure Maya's cultural identity and family history are lucidly invoked and her struggle emerges as a universal one. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. Biography: Kyoko Mori is the author of two novels for young readers One Bird and Shizuko's Daughter which was chosen as a Best Young Children's Book by The New York Times. She has also written two memoirs for adults Polite Lies and The Dream of Water. Born in Kobe Japan Mori moved to the United States as a teenager. She teaches writing at Harvard University. Metropolitan Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041519 ???????? : 0805040803 9780805040807
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Gilbert Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy India And Indonesia
Penguin Books 2006. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Movie tie-in cover with Julia Roberts on front. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. 334 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis: The celebrated author of The Last American Man creates an irresistible candid and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion. By the time she turned thirty Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern educated ambitious American woman was supposed to want-a husband a house in the country a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled she was consumed with panic grief and confusion. She went through a divorce a crushing depression another failed love and the complete eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all of this Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted she got rid of her belongings quit her job left her loved ones behind and undertook a year-long journey around the world all alone. Eat Pray Love is the chronicle of that year. Gilbert's aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy she studied the art of pleasure learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion where with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise Texan she embarked on four months of austere spiritual exploration. Finally in Indonesia she sought her ultimate goal: balance namely how to somehow build a life of equilibrium between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. Looking for these answers on the island of Bali she became the pupil of an elderly ninth-generation medicine man and also fell in love in the very best way unexpectedly. A memoir of self-discovery Eat Pray Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment. It is also about the adventures that can transpire when a woman stops trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change. Penguin Books Paperback
书商的参考编号 : 041575 ???????? : 0143118420 9780143118428
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Holthe Tess Uriza
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes
Crown Publishers 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 275 pages. Synopsis: San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007 ALA Notable Book of 2007 The 5:45 train to Cannes . . . It links northern Italy with the French Riviera while running like a thread through lives that touch one another in unexpected and often secret ways: Chazz the heir to a great fortune; GianCarlo a kindhearted young Italian thief; Anais who feels the insults of age; and Sophie a talented young photographer. At the center we find beautiful bereaved Claudette wife of the doomed Chazz making the journey to Cannes where she like all the others remembers her past and draws from it irresolvable feelings of strength and fragility meaning and emptiness permanence and loss. In these linked stories Tess Uriza Holthe peers deeply into the inner lives of these women and men. Sad and lovely often at the same time The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes takes us to places where we are happy to linger in the world and in the human heart. Biography: TESS URIZA HOLTHE is the author of the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling When the Elephants Dance. Crown Publishers Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041648 ???????? : 0307351858 9780307351852
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Edelman Hope
Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become
HarperCollins 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-nice clean copy. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 410 pages. Synopsis: When Hope Edelman author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters became a parent she found herself revisiting the loss of her mother in ways she had never anticipated. Now the mother of two young girls Edelman set out to learn how the loss of a mother to death or abandonment can affect the ways women raise their own children. In Motherless Mothers Edelman uses her own story as a prism to reveal the unique anxieties and desires that these women experience as they raise their children without the help of a living maternal guide. In an impeccably researched luminously written book enriched by the voices of the mothers themselves and filled with practical insight and advice from experienced professionals-she examines their parenting choices their triumphs and their fears and offers motherless mothers the guidance and support they want and need. Publishers Weekly: Edelman first undertook this painful topic in 1994 Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss drawing from her own experience of losing her mother at 17. Now a mother herself she considers how her mother's absence has shaped her seven years of parenting. Through interviews anecdotes and psychological research Edelman discusses the challenge of mothering in the shadow of someone gone which often triggers a resurgence of childhood grief and confusion. But this is less a book on mourning than a supportive guide for mothers who may feel overwhelmed and alone bereft of their own mothers' presence advice and support. Chapters address general child-rearing topics for each age group with focuses specific to the reader: the void of the absent grandmother the urge to overcompensate and the perpetual impulse to protect one's family from the specter of loss. Bereavement counselors examine the process of revisiting a traumatic youth through one's children which affords the opportunity to heal. Edelman's voice suffused with fierce maternal love joins the candid recollections from motherless mothers of all ages and backgrounds. She presents emotionally charged concepts in clear memorable terms e.g. reaching the "neon number" of a mother's age of death to encourage frank cathartic discussion. May Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Biography: Hope Edelman is a writer whose work has appeared nationally. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writing Program and lives in New York City. Her mother died when she was seventeen. HarperCollins Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041684 ???????? : 0060532459 9780060532451
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Stettner Morey
The Art of Winning Conversation: Proven Communication Techniques for Personal and Professional Success
New York New York U.S.A.: MJF Books 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 298 pages. Synopsis: Proven communication techniques and strategies that pave the way to success in your personal and professional relationships. MJF Books Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041709 ???????? : 1567313116 9781567313116
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Kidd Sue Monk
The Mermaid Chair
New York New York U.S.A.: Viking Press 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Sue Monk Kidds phenomenal debut The Secret Life of Bees became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now in her luminous new novel Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan - a love story between a woman and a monk a woman and her husband and ultimately a woman and her own soul - Kidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure. Viking Press Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041349 ???????? : 0670033944 9780670033942
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Waugh Lyndon D. MD.;Sweitzer Letitia M. D.
Tired of Yelling: Teaching Our Children to Resolve Conflict
Atlanta Georgia U.S.A.: Longstreet Pr 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Stated 3rd printing. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 275 pages. Synopsis: Using a fifteen-step model parents and educators can teach children how to manage anger and handle conflict which will result in more peaceful homes and classrooms. Belle Meade News: Whether you are a parent who seems to have it all together or one whose children are having problems effectively managing their anger Waugh's commonsense guide can be very helpful.He has a blueprint with specific steps that should guarantee success. Biography: Lyndon D. Waugh M.D. is cofounder and codirector of the Atlanta Area Family Psychiatry Clinic P.C. where he has had a prestigious practice in child adolescent and family psychiatry since 1977. He also teaches and supervises Child Psychiatry Fellows at Emory University School of Medicine. Longstreet Pr Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 041373 ???????? : 1563525313 9781563525315
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Whelchel Lisa; Omartian Stormie Foreword
Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline
Colorado Springs Colorado U.S.A.: Focus on the Family Pub 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 295 pages. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Creative Correction is a parenting book filled with hundreds of practical and unique ways to discipline children that will take you beyond time-outs and spankings. This book is organized with busy parents like you in mind. The first section of each chapter includes real-life often hilarious situations from the author's own experiences that illustrate common disciplinary problems most parents face. Each chapter concludes with an extensive "toolbox" overflowing with creative yet practical ideas gathered from parents all over the nation. For example: Leaving a mess The next time your child "forgets" to put something away put it away for him. When he asks where it is tell him that he'll have to look for it. Believe me he will learn that it's a lot more trouble to find something that Mom has hidden than it is to put it away in the first place. Forgetting to feed a pet Try putting her lunch money or lunch bag in a box next to the pet's cage. That way your youngster won't get to eat unless his pet eats first. Sloppy schoolwork Buy a printing or cursive workbook from your local teachers supply store. Then ask your child "What takes longer: a report done neatly in 15 minutes or one you've sped through in 10 that must be redone and warrants a page of handwriting practice" Toddler independence If your little one balks at holding your hand while in a parking lot or crossing the street give him a choice. Remind him "I can either hold your hand or hold your hair." Independce isn't quite so appealing on those terms. These are just a handful of the hundreds of proven effective ideas for correction. There is also a chapter full of helpful ideas to motivate your children with incentives and rewards that not only curb negative behavior but build positive character qualities at the same time. Whelchel has saved the best part of the book for last - the topical index. If you find yourself in the middle of an issue with your child simply turn to the back up the book look up the infraction and be directed to a handful of ways to handle the situation. Choose one that fits both the uniqueness of your child and you as a parent. Who says discipline has to be boring. Focus on the Family Pub Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 040922 ???????? : 1561799017 9781561799015
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Coupland Douglas
All Families Are Psychotic: A Novel
New York New York U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Like-new copy. Appears unread. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears. 282 pages. Synopsis: The story is set in Florida USA and is about a dysfunctional family. The plot is supposedly about Janet Drummond a divorced sixtysomething with three kids Wade Sarah and Bryan and an ex-husband Ted who's taken up with a younger woman. It's all set around Sarah's Space Shuttle flight an event which brings the family together in one place for the first time in years - and then things start to unravel. Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 040923 ???????? : 1582341656 9781582341651
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Gutcheon Beth
Good-Bye and Amen
William Morrow & Co 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Illustrated with photos. 243 pages. Synopsis: In a summer cottage on the coast of Maine an unlikely love was nurtured a marriage endured and a family survived. Now it is time for the children of that marriage to make peace with the wounds and the treasures left to them. And to sort out which is which. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 040927 ???????? : 0060539070 9780060539078
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