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By: Adams, Nehemiah
Price: $30.00
Publisher: S.K. Whipple and Company: 1857
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2260294
Condition: Very Good
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 the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2] In 1832, he married Martha Hooper. In 1834, he became pastor... View more info
By: Crough, Patrick
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Millstone Justice: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2287929
ISBN: 0615287654
Condition: Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author with smiley face and no inscription. A fine copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. 363 pp. With his book, The Serpents Among Us, Patrick Crough has provided a priceless resource for anybody who loves kids. Drawing on his twenty years of experience as a major crimes investigator, Patrick has chronicled some of his most memorable cases. In page after page, he lets us in on his conversations with some of our culture's most heinous criminals - child molesters. Each story takes us deeper into the minds of these depraved predators. Though at times difficu... View more info
By: Doft, Noma; Aria, Barbara; Chess, Stella
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harmony Books: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267498
ISBN: 0517580462
Condition: Near Fine
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: Erdrich, Louise
Price: $30.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281727
ISBN: 0060171324
Condition: Near Fine
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
ISBN: 0380799006
Condition: Good
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 turn quarreling sibling and frustrated parents into an open, communicative family. View more info
By: Gilbert, Sandra M.; Gubar, Susan; O'Hehir, Diana
Price: $10.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2287494
ISBN: 0393040399
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes publisher slipcase. No jacket. An excellent copy in an excellent slipcase. 1995 Hard Cover. 380 pp. Includes publisher slipcase. A unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, MotherSongs brings together for the first time a range of classic and contemporary poems from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. The editors have included traditional ballads about maternity and courtly elegies for or by mothers as well as landmark nineteenth-century tributes to mothers and early twentieth-century meditations on motherhood. MotherSongs o... View more info
By: Guterson, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274245
ISBN: 015193097X
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 0345442334
Condition: Near Fine
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. Hallowell shares his findings with all of us who care about children. View more info
By: Hodges, Steve J.; Schlosberg, Suzanne
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Lyons Press: 2012
Seller ID: 2269917
ISBN: 076277360X
Condition: Near Fine
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-shooting explanations for the potty problems affecting their kids and practical advice on how to treat and prevent these troubles. ... View more info
By: Homayoung, Ana
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Perigee Book: 2010
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268596
ISBN: 0399535594
Condition: Near Fine
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- -starting with a simple fact: Most boys needs to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and-- most important--how to ... 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
ISBN: 0316008230
Condition: Near Fine
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 horses and shamanic healing intersected? THE HORSE BOY is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure. In Mon... View more info
By: Katz, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hearst: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203887
ISBN: 1588168050
Condition: Near Fine
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’s heartbreaking piece about losing his two sons to David Sedaris’s sidesplitting portrait at his father—a food hoarder... View more info
By: Keeshan, Bob
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2291128
ISBN: 0385249098
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, To John-- Love-- Bob Keeshan Captain Kangaroo. Light sticker adhesive on jacket spine base, front jacket flap price-clipped. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. 1989 Hard Cover. x, 230 pp. Known to millions as the beloved children's character, Captain Kangaroo, the author offers sound guidance for parents on raising well-adjusted children, advice covering such areas as discipline, sex-role conditioning, and stress.--Amazon View more info
By: Kelly, Jim
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Faith Words: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203886
Condition: Very Good
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 refreshingly honest, Jim challenges fathers to work hard, pray for their children often, love their wives and implement these prin... View more info
By: Lickona, Thomas
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Touchstone: 2004
Seller ID: 2205414
Condition: Near Fine
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 qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. View more info
By: Mark, Bonnie S.; Incorvaia, James A.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc.: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267501
ISBN: 0765700441
Condition: Fine
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 children who might not benefit from traditional therapy, a multimodal approach for working with sexually abused children, and... View more info
By: Maso, Carole
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Counterpoint: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282208
ISBN: 1582430888
Condition: Near Fine
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
ISBN: 1621573303
Condition: Near Fine
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. From cradling his newborn to walking her down the aisle, a father must relish his paramount responsibility—guiding the course ... View more info
By: Pope Francis
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor: 2016
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2266453
ISBN: 1681920026
Condition: Near Fine
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 sign of mercy and encouragement for families of all shapes and sizes. The Our Sunday Visitor edition includes exclusive reflecti... 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
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 087477019X
Condition: Very Good
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 information gleaned from interviews with various physicians. View more info
By: Russert, Tim
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Random House: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279299
ISBN: 1400064805
Condition: Near Fine
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
Condition: Near Fine
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 of us in need of such a resource for our own mourning.— Eugene Knott, Ph.D., University of Rhode IslandDr. Sanders' insight... View more info
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By: Sanger, Margaret
Price: $75.00
Publisher: S.N.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266084
Condition: Near Fine
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' -- decades during which obscenity laws in the United States prohibited the provision of information on sex education or contracep... View more info
By: Scottoline, Lisa; Serritella, Francesca
Price: $6.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: 2017
Seller ID: 2208190
ISBN: 1250059984
Condition: Fine
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 relatable true stories in the everyday lives of modern women. Lisa and Francesca give their multi-generational take on a varie... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: William D. Ticknor & Co.: 1847
Seller ID: 2268348
Condition: Good
Pencil note on front endpaper, faint stain to second blank, light spots to rear endpapers. 1847 Small Hard Cover. 192 pp. 4 1/2 x 3. Printed commendations by John Quincy Adams precede text. Counsels Addressed to Young Ladies and Young Men, Young Married Persons and Young Parents, Delivered in Washington City, in April 1846. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Old Sturbridge Village: 1961
Seller ID: 2292319
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine. 1961 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. A history of child life in New England with black-and-white illustrations. View more info
By: Wead, Doug
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265360
ISBN: 0743497260
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Minor general wear to jacket. 2005 Hard Cover. ix, 512 pp. A study of the parents of each American president draws on the author's research from All the Presidents' Children as well as the expertise of five psychologists to shed insight into such events as Lillian Carter's antagonism of segregationist neighbors, Warren G. Harding's mother's murder charge, and single mother Betty Jackson's succor of Revolutionary War soldiers. View more info
