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This is a sensible, lucid guide to practical and effective communication with your children. Using logical approaches to common problems, Faber and Mazlish demonstrate how to improve relationships with children, to make them less stressful and more rewarding.

For over thirty-five years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele's daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk&#x;s powerful communication skills to children ages two to seven. Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom...

"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five...

In a semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Raina's disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister is further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents' marriage.

An inspiring, beautifully designed guide for parents of toddlers looking to bring the principles of Montessori education--curiosity, independence, respect--into their daily lives.

A pioneering and practical book for parents that explains the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures.

Madame Bovary es, probablemente, el más importante libro jamás escrito. Considerada una obra maestra a lo largo de casi dos siglos, todavía hoy se mantiene en la cima de las novelas más celebradas por lectores de todo el mundo. Con su estilo refinado y en busca de la "palabra justa", Flaubert narra la historia de una mujer disconforme con su matrimonio, con su vida y, al cabo, con su época. Para algunos, se trata de un manifiesto feminista; para...

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King...

Presents the timeless love story between a farm boy named Westley and the beautiful Princess Buttercup, along with the author's comments on life and art as he attempts to edit the children's classic.

A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.