Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us…

Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a brok…

Calm the Chaos: A Fail-Proof Road Map for Parenting Even the Most Challenging…

A simple, fail-proof road map for parents raising even the most challenging children from the founder of the life-changing Calm the Chaos methodology and the Lemon Lime Adventures blog. Strong-willed, spirited, explosive, and highly sensitive are just a few of the most common labels for challenging kids. Whether your child has been diagnosed with a behavioral condition, labeled, or is just h…

Karena Ibu Madrasah Pertama: Kisah Nyata Para Wanita Pencetak Ulama

Kita ajak melihat sejarah para wanita muslimah yang sukses mencetak anak-anak didiknya menjadi ulama rabbani yang ilmunya menyebar ke seantero negeri dan disaksikan keunggulannya oleh semua warga bumi. Wanita muslimah merupakan sebuah kekuatan yang mendorong dan menginspirasi jiwa anak-anaknya dan juga jiwa para ulama rabbani. Mereka ibarat ruh yang terus berjalan, tetapi tak terlihat; ibarat c…

Membasuh Luka Pengasuhan

Sudah seberapa sering kita belajar tentang bagaimana semestinya bersikap yang terbaik pada kedua orangtua? Bahkan dalam Islam... bakti pada kedua orangtua memiliki keutamaan setelah ketaatan pada Allah & Rasulullah. Bukankah kita tau benar keutamaan ini? Tapi tak bisa dipungkiri, beberapa dari kita bisa jadi menunaikan bakti dengan tidak leluasa, canggung, setengah hati, namun juga tak me…

How to Raise a Teen: A guide for parents of thirteen to twenty-one-year-olds

Raising a teenager can be challenging, exhausting and, at times, infuriating for parents. In How to Raise a Teen, parenting expert and mother of four young adults Sarah Ockwell-Smith provides advice and guidance for parents, carers, and anybody else who works with teenagers and their families on how to navigate this tricky period. Using her unique blend of practical parenting advice, neurosc…

The Brain that Changes Itself

Edition

English, 2008

ISBN/ISSN

9781802060904

Collation

427 pages

Series Title

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Call Number

612.82 NOR b

Know It All Great Inventions: The 50 Greatest Inventions, Each Explained in U…

Universal change is often the ultimate result of one individual’s lightbulb moment—an invention that triggers a ripple effect across countries, continents, or even out into space. Know-It-All Great Inventions looks at fifty of these great ideas that really did change the world. It covers a wide range, from early days (the wheel) through materials (the invention of steel and plastic) to comm…

The Pregnancy Book

America's foremost baby and childcare experts tell you what to expect, month by month, from conception through birth In this uniquely authoritative and comprehensive guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, the pediatrics specialists whose books on birth, babies, and parenting have become widely praised bestsellers, team up with one of America's leading obstetricians. The the definitive book on pregna…

Dog, Inc.

What Stiff did for the dead and Fast Food Nation did for the burger, Dog, Inc. does for the stranger-than-fiction world of commercial dog cloning. It all began with a pit bull named Booger. Former Miss Wyoming Bernann McKinney was so distraught over the death of her dog, whom she regarded as her guardian and savior, that she paid $50,000 to RNL Bio for the chance to bring her beloved compani…

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed t…