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By: Adams, Nehemiah
Price: $30.00
Publisher: S.K. Whipple and Company: 1857
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2260294
Second edition. No jacket, a few light spots to boards, ink note on front endpaper. 1857 Hard Cover. vii, 191, [4] pp. Reverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 – October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts,[1] in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. That same year, he was ordained as co-pastor, with Abiel Holmes, of... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications: 2012
Seller ID: 2205723
A fine copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. xiii, 321 pp. Our Children Live On is an award-winning collection of powerful, true stories that prove our children are with us forever. Eighty-two heartfelt, moving testimonials from bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and caregivers clearly demonstrate that love and life are eternal.Anyone who has suffered the unimaginable loss of a loved one--especially a child--will find hope and comfort in each miraculous story. F... View more info
By: Carrier, Blanche
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Thomas Y Crowell & Co.: 1959
Seller ID: 1309472
Jacket edge wear & tearing, foxing on jacket flaps.Good. 1959 Hard Cover. The author has drawn upon her many years of service in the firld of religious education and family counseling for this timely book on the rearing of children under the special pressures of today. Parents who are already aware that our present culture is forcing the American family into a new and undesirable pattern will appreciate her wise counsel and workable suggestions. Other parents -- those di... View more info
By: Chase, Bob
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2002
Seller ID: 1298100
Remainder mark on page base. A nice bright copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. 288 pp. Despite controversies over standardized testing, school funding, and teacher quality, more than ninety percent of American children attend public schools. In The New Public School Parent, parents will learn all they need to know about how the public school system works and, more importantly, how to navigate it to ensure that their children are getting the education that they deserve. Backed by... View more info
By: Dobson, James
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Tyndale: 2005
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2203853
An exceptional copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys from the nation's most trusted parenting expert, Dr.James Dobson. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in... View more info
By: Doft, Noma; Aria, Barbara; Chess, Stella
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harmony Books: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267498
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Ink name on front endpaper, two minor ink spots on page ridge. 1992 Hard Cover. xiii, 224 pp. One of America's top child psychologists provides reassuring advice for parents whose children are experiencing emotional or developmental problems. Here is the essential guide for every parent who is struggling to distinguish typical growing pains from more serious problems. View more info
By: Eaton, Anne T.
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1945
Seller ID: 1304881
Pages toned, a bit rubbed, ink names on front endpaper, bookplate inside front cover. 1945 Hard Cover. 'You'll Find that Reading's Very Nice'; Reality and Imagination; Through Magic Doorways; Over the Edge of the World; Betwixt and Between; Unicorns and Common Creatures; Poetry; World's Great Stories; Stories Old and New; Roundabout the Earth; Men and Manners of the Past; Our World -- Earth, Air, Skies, and Seas; Art and Music; Artists Work for Children; Nonsense is Fun;... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Judson: 2009
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1538698
First printing. 2009 Trade Paperback. 164 pp. High-school teacher and mother of two boys of her own, the author exhorts parents and caregivers to choose Jesus as the ultimate male role model for their sons. Tracing the Gospel stories of Christ from infancy through ministry in Judea and Galilee and even to death and resurrection, each chapter identifies a lesson to be gleaned from Jesus' life. Practical wisdom about facing temptation, exploring leadership, choosing friend... View more info
By: Erdrich, Louise
Price: $30.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281727
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 223 pp. Author's first major work on non-fiction. The critically acclaimed novelist poignantly reviews the large and small events--and the attendant joys, frustrations, compromises, insights, and emotional satisfactions--that informed her pregnancy, her first year as a new mother, and her return to writing. View more info
By: Faber, Adele; Mazlish, Elaine
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Perennial Currents: 2004
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201750
General wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. xvii, 246 pp. ...this seminal book--revised and updated after more than ten years of feedback from parents' letters, TV and radio talk shows, and Faber and Mazlish's highly successful partenting workshops. Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to family peace and tranquillity with humor and compassion for both parents and children. Illustrated, action-oriented, and easy to understand, it's packed with sensitive yet sensible ways to t... View more info
By: Guterson, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274245
First edition. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 245 pp. A high school English teacher tells why he has chosen to educate his own sons at home, offering information on the academic success of home-schooled children, the meaning of education, the psychology of learning, and education in other societies. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2003
Seller ID: 2268299
An exceptional copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. Now, in The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, Dr... View more info
By: Hodges, Steve J.; Schlosberg, Suzanne
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Lyons Press: 2012
Seller ID: 2269917
A very nice copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. xv, 223 pp. Here’s a reality that will shock most parents: There is a silent epidemic in America—one that is needlessly stressing out parents, causing children pain and embarrassment, and costing families and the health-care system massive amounts of money. It is an issue of dysfunctional elimination: delayed or abnormal pooping and peeing in children. In his eye-opening new book, Dr. Steve Hodges offers parents straight-shooti... View more info
By: Homayoung, Ana
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Perigee Book: 2010
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268596
First printing. A nice copy. 2010 Trade Paperback. xvi, 287 pp. Missed assignments. Lack of focus and enthusiasm. Falling grades. For too many boys and their frustrated parents, these are the facts of life. But they don't have to be. Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered, and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics-... View more info
By: Isaacson, Rupert
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2266440
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Autographed Copy sticker on front wrapper. 2009 Hard Cover. x, 357 pp. When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horse... View more info
By: Katz, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hearst: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203887
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2010 Hard Cover. Compelling and eloquent, these are some of the magazine’s most emotionally powerful pieces, as eleven award-winning and notable authors reflect on manhood through memories of their own fathers and their personal experience of raising sons. The collection covers everything from birth to death, from the thrilling and terrifying hours Daniel Voll spent in the delivery room during his wife’s long labor to Jake La Motta... View more info
By: Kelly, Jim
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Faith Words: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203886
First edition. Ink note to front endpaper. 2012 Hard Cover. With an emphasis on preparation, hard work and perseverance, Kelly tackles such essential issues as respect, character, accountability and spiritual discipline. From commitment and courage to honesty and humility, Kelly's lessons-learned on and off the field- guide men striving to be the fathers God designed them to be - so their children can grow to be everything they are meant to be. Conversational and refre... View more info
By: Lickona, Thomas
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Touchstone: 2004
Seller ID: 2205414
An exceptional copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qu... View more info
By: Mark, Bonnie S.; Incorvaia, James A.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc.: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267501
First edition. A fine copy. 1997 Hard Cover. xvi, 512 pp. This handbook offers new approaches to working with children, adolescents and their families. Noted child and adolescent experts such as T. Berry Brazelton, Carol Gilligan, and Paul and Anna Ornstein discuss many pressing issues, including helping parents to develop a more positive attitude toward parenting, guiding parents during stressful times, psychoeducational psychotherapy with learning disabled and/or ADHD ... View more info
By: Maso, Carole
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Counterpoint: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282208
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 178 pp. The novelist chronicles her pregnancy and birth in a poetic tribute to the joys, pain, terrors, and hopes associated with new motherhood. View more info
By: Meeker, Meg
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Regnery Publishing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269925
First edition. No jacket. A very nice copy. 2006 Hard Cover. xv, 287 pp. Drawing on her thirty years' experience practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine, teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker explains why an active father figure is maybe the single most important factor in a young woman's development. In this invaluable guide, Meeker shows how a father can be both counsel and protector for his daughter as she grows into a spiritually and mentally strong young woman. Fro... View more info
By: Musselwhite, Caroline Ramsey
Price: $2.00
Publisher: College Hill Press: 1986
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1528885
First printing. Lightly rubbed. 1986 Trade Paperback. 249 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Overview of Adaptive Play; Part Two: Selecting, Adapting, and Making Play Materials; Part Three: Adaptive Play Strategies for Communicative Goals; Part Four: Developing a Support for Adaptive Play; Part Five: Appendices; References. View more info
By: Pope Francis
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor: 2016
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2266453
First printing. A very nice copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. 240 pp. All of us are called to keep striving towards something greater than ourselves and our families, and every family must feel this constant impulse. Let us make this journey as families, let us keep walking together. Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia. In his groundbreaking work on modern family life, Amoris Laetitia: On Love in the Family, Pope Francis continues to guide and lead the Church, calling us to be a sig... View more info
By: Rivers, Joan; Levbarg, Morrison S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: J.P. Tarcher, Inc.: 1974
Edition: 8th Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2054789
8th printing. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front endpaper ('Good luck, XXX Joan Rivers'). Jacket corners rubbed, clear tape repair to tear along spine head, a few creases on rear jacket panel. 1974 Hard Cover. 139 pp. A humorous take on pregnancy and motherhood by the late great comedian Joan Rivers, providing an entertaining mix of levity, personal experience, and helpful information gleaned from interviews with various physicians. View more info
By: Rivers, Joan; Levbarg, Morrison S.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: J.P. Tarcher, Inc.: 1974
Edition: 4th Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2273813
4th printing. Inscribed with a smiley face doodle and signed by Joan Rivers on front endpaper ('To Elaine -- Good luck, Joan Rivers, 1975'). New Melody Fair program advertising Rivers's appearance laid in, most likely indicating the book was signed at that event. 1 inch closed jacket tear. 1974 Hard Cover. 139 pp. A humorous take on pregnancy and motherhood by the late great comedian Joan Rivers, providing an entertaining mix of levity, personal experience, and helpful i... View more info
By: Russert, Tim
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Random House: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279299
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. Heartfelt, humorous, engaging, irresistibly readable, and bound to bring back memories of unforgettable moments with our own fathers, Tim Russert’s new book is not only a fitting companion to his own marvelous memoir, but also a celebration of the positive qualities passed down from generation to generation. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press: 2001
Seller ID: 2205725
Red smudges to rear wrapper. 2001 Trade Paperback. x, 246 pp. Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery.— Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of DeathHow to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those ... View more info
By: Sanger, Margaret
Price: $350.00
Publisher: S.N.: 1920
Seller ID: 2266082
Wrappers foxed, minor loss from front wrapper corner, closed tears to spine head and foot. 1920 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 23, [1] pp. Self wrappers. 1920 tenth edition of the work originally published in 1914. From Hoolihan 3084, describing the first edition: Family limitation defends a woman's right to control her body, defends her right to have an abortion if she does not choose to be pregnant, and gives simple, explicit directions for a... View more info
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By: Sanger, Margaret
Price: $75.00
Publisher: S.N.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266084
First Polish edition. We have more books available by this author!. 14 pp. Self wrappers. Polish edition of the work originally published in 1914. Hoolihan 3090. From Hoolihan 3084, describing the first edition: Family limitation defends a woman's right to control her body, defends her right to have an abortion if she does not choose to be pregnant, and gives simple, explicit directions for a variety of ways to prevent conception. After forty years of 'Com-stockery' -- d... View more info
By: Scottoline, Lisa; Serritella, Francesca
Price: $6.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: 2017
Seller ID: 2208190
A fine copy. 2017 Trade Paperback. 335 pp. “The mother-daughter duo returns with a collection of breezy summer essays, perfect for the beach, the pool or even the couch. This witty, insightful assortment of stories is a wonderfully entertaining look into the lives of two modern women.” –Parade MagazineThe New York Times bestselling mother-daughter team returns with a new collection in the series that Oprah Magazine calls the Perfect Summer Must-Read, of funny and r... View more info
