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Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature.
Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background....
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"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
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The bestselling author of THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE offers his innovative financial advice in SMART COUPLES FINISH RICH and SMART WOMEN FINISH RICH, timed to coincide with the publication of his new book, START LATE, FINISH RICH! Fighting about money is the number-one reason for divorce in America. SMART COUPLES FINISH RICH covers a powerful combination of strategies that helps couples work on their finances as a team. Addressing every couple-younger...
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Whether you’re married, deepening your commitment to your partner, or single and dating someone new, if you want to ditch the drama in your relationship and become fabulously fulfilled, The Couple’s Playbook is essential reading. Brain-based relationship and life coach Lisa Marini has incorporated incredible insights from the most advanced research on the human brain into a powerful technique for communicating and negotiating strategies that bring...
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"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulatethe mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce, " Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
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Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they've built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it's rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther's accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if...
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"Every couple fights--it's how you fight that can determine the success of your relationship. This book teaches you to look beyond what you and your partner fight about, and discover the core issues that undermine your relationship.In the midst of a disagreement, many couples ask themselves, "What are we really fighting about?" Sound familiar? As it turns out, breakups and divorce don't happen because couples fight, they happen because of how couples...
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Le couple apparaît encore aujourd'hui comme le meilleur style de vie et la meilleure garantie de bonheur. Certains sont heureux le temps de la séduction et de la lune de miel, soit de quelques mois à deux ou trois ans, d'autres savent le rester à plus long terme parce qu'ils ont surmonté les crises et les conflits inévitables de la vie à deux. Pourquoi certains couples réussissent-ils là o la majorité échoue? Les psychologues ont observé,...
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Dans son livre Qui sont ces couples heureux ?, le psychologue Yvon Dallaire trace un portrait réaliste et complet du couple heureux. Dans Qui sont ces femmes heureuses ?, l'auteur nous dit ce que toute femme devrait savoir, faire et cesser de faire pour trouver l'intimité, la communication et l'engagement qu'elle désire vivre en couple. Il démontre que l'homme est différent de la femme et qu'accepter son fonctionnement et agir en conséquence...
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When was the first moment you knew your spouse got you? Whether it was your third date or wedding day, there was a moment that you believed your spouse knew and understood you better than any other person on the planet. You felt loved, appreciated and respected in a way no other person had ever made you feel. On your wedding day, "I do" meant "you get me" for you both. Then life set in. Replaced by busy careers, financial stressors and growing children,...
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Qualified, yet Single is a screening guide is for women who are tired of wasting their time on single good men who struggle with commitment. It encourages women to look beyond a man's surface and to realize that behave every behavior there is an emotion. Dr. Buckingham provides single women with the subtle red flags to look for in a "good" man prior to jumping in a relationship. This straightforward and informative book motivates women to think more...
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La relación de pareja promueve tanto la buena salud como la patología, y puede ser fuente de estrés si no se vive adecuadamente. En este libro mostramos tanto las conductas negativas como las estrategias que garantizan el equilibrio afectivo.
El manejo de las emociones, la ternura razonada, tolerancia y empatía, la expresión de sentimientos, la reciprocidad, el llegar a acuerdos, son símbolos que pueden garantizar la concordia en pareja.
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While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and...
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Esta obra, dirigida a psiclogos y psicoterapeutas, desarrolla en un lenguaje accesible y desde la ptica sistmica, el uso de cuentos e historias en contextos teraputicos para el trabajo con nios y sus familias. El uso de historias en la terapia es trascendental, ya que proporciona un contexto de significacin para abordar un problema especfico, donde la imaginacin, la participacin de los escuchas, la complicidad y los rituales, se convierten en un poderoso...
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Este libro, desde una mirada sistémico-construccionista y a través de narrativas y voces de personas, muestra un recorrido por situaciones de crisis que afectaron sus relaciones familiares y por la construcción de procesos generativos de resignificación, transformación y nuevos contextos. Dos momentos que llevaron, por un lado, a prácticas de reacomodamientos en la organización familiar y, por el otro, a cambiar las percepciones sobre el proceso...
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Si, malgré l'amour qui les lie, homme et femme ont de la difficulté à dialoguer, c'est que la femme envisage la communication en termes de liens intimes et d'expression émotive, alors que l'homme communique pour atteindre des objectifs précis et transmettre de l'information. Les hommes font des discours, les femmes échangent.
Pour améliorer la relation, l'auteur présente aux femmes dix règles efficaces qu'elles peuvent utiliser pour mieux...
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