Practical, positive and informative parenting advice on raising great sons. Growing Great Boys is a brilliant, practical parenting book about parenting boys from toddlers to teens by one of New Zealand's leading parenting experts. Packed with tips and pragmatic ideas for parents, it has a strong and positive message for parents. The following issues are dealt with: The challenges for boys in the 21st century; The uniqueness of boys/men; The importance of fathers ...

Best-selling relationship gurus show you how to gain new insights and ideas that will build intimacy and add spice to your relationship. Ian and Mary Grant maintain that the two great human desires are to know that we can love and that we can be loved. In their latest book, they give skills and tips on how to maintain your relationship with your husband or wife. Whether your relationship is flaming with passion or just flaming awful, this entertaining book gives you insigh...

Originally published in 1987. The Consumption Theory of Land Rent or CTLR is a comprehensive model of the urban landscape developed by Grant Ian Thrall. Working from the basic idea that the same underlying processes account for the spatial structure of all places, Thrall shows how CTLR can be used as a tool to explain and predict the long-term consequences of policy decisions by governments, such as introducing light rail rapid transit, or parameter changes in the economy, such as a genera...

The must-have parenting book for parents with daughters. After the huge success of Growing Great Boys comes this companion title focusing on girls. There are many issues today to challenge girls and their parents. This book gives support and advice to parents in the same way that Growing Great Boys has done. It includes some general chapters on the nature of girls; girls and mothers; girls and fathers; solo parenting; preschool girls; middle years, and te...

Great ideas and top tips for building a strong, functioning family from parenting gurus Ian and Mary Grant. Parenting skills that any family can use effectively, with excellent practical advice including smart strategies, action labs and chapter summaries. Children need to know the security of a family operating as a team and to experience being contributors not just takers. In this way children will know real intimacy and emotional safety. Whatever we parents honour or t...

The one book you will ever need on how to be great dad. Including clear strategies on everything from being a hero to your kids to communication to discipline, this is the one book fathers will ever need. It's encouraging and affirming and to the point, with comments like: 'Men are such a necessary part of the parenting team because they believe in the three Rs: Rules, Routines, Ridiculousness.' Fathers Who Dare Win was first self-published in 2000, and now Ian Gr...

**“With its unflinching excavation of our dark past, American Nightmare is a page turner with a message.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of KinIn this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood...**Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare as a child during the Atlanta Race Riot of ...

You Don't Need to Burn Your Life Down to Build a Better One. You Just Need the Right Exit Strategy.You dream of freedom, yet fear losing your stability. You've been fed the lie that entrepreneurship demands a blind leap of faith—burn the boats. John Harris is here to tell you that's the most expensive advice you'll ever follow.In Don't Quit Your Job, Yet, Harris delivers the scars. After building a portfolio of successful restaurants, losing seven figures, ...

A dazzling literary debut that reimagines The Odyssey and asks what power do we have to control our own fate when destiny feels pre-determined and the systems of the world are broken?Eurick Ulysse is irrevocably trapped: by poverty, by class, and by his immigrant parents’ expectations. Disillusioned by dead-end jobs, unaffordable college aspirations, and the doldrums of his South Florida hood, he resolves to piss his life away getting drunk with his friend...

One Boy. Three Countries. A Thousand Reasons to Quit.In a world that often dismisses the pursuit of dreams as a mere luxury, for Junior, it was an all-out war between life and death.Growing up in the heart of poverty in Haiti, a world vividly described in this memoir, Junior embarked on an unprecedented journey—from surviving a heart-wrenching car crash to desperate street begging in the Dominican Republic. Then came the Haiti earthquake, a relentless force...

You Don't Need to Burn Your Life Down to Build a Better One. You Just Need the Right Exit Strategy.You dream of freedom, yet fear losing your stability. You've been fed the lie that entrepreneurship demands a blind leap of faith—burn the boats. John Harris is here to tell you that's the most expensive advice you'll ever follow.In Don't Quit Your Job, Yet, Harris delivers the scars. After building a portfolio of successful restaurants, losing seven figures, ...

You Don't Need to Burn Your Life Down to Build a Better One. You Just Need the Right Exit Strategy.You dream of freedom, yet fear losing your stability. You've been fed the lie that entrepreneurship demands a blind leap of faith—burn the boats. John Harris is here to tell you that's the most expensive advice you'll ever follow.In Don't Quit Your Job, Yet, Harris delivers the scars. After building a portfolio of successful restaurants, losing seven figures, ...