Jahangir is a kid who knows how to make nitroglycerine. Lorelei's mother is a high-class hostess. A true grime tale set around Lyme Road School, where everyone except their friend Frank is totally weird.Lyme Road Community School is no ordinary school, servicing a sprawling South London estate. Some of the students are in gangs, some the children of drug addicts, and some are drug dealers themselves. Others are refuges from war-torn countries, and a few were even soldiers. Jahangir...

Dr. Will Miller and Dr. Glenn Sparks have determined “the core challenge to our sense of contentment is in our lifestyle.” They offer the concept of REFRIGERATOR RIGHTS – the importance of having people in your life who can literally help themselves to the contents of your refrigerator without needing your permission. Understanding REFRIGERATOR RIGHTS can help you relieve stress, reduce feelings of depression, and develop meaningful connections. This 2nd edition of REFRIGERATOR RIGHTS incl...

Millions of people feel dissatisfied and depressed about their jobs, yet curiously many still like what they are doing.Their complaints are almost always about "the other stuff" that causes their distress. These other factors include clashes with internal and external bureaucracy, micromanaging supervision, lack of participation in decisions, and uncertatinty about their job security.The irony about Miserable@Work is that resolving our distress on the job is often ...

From video games to the Internet, technology and popular culture are having a profound effect on today's boys. Boys need guidance more than ever. But how can we help them do better in school? How can we keep the lines of communication open?Raising Boys in a New Kind of World is a passionate call for greater empathy. The more we know about boys, the more realistic our expectations of them will be. We need to stop seeing normal boy behaviour as a problem and learn to underst...

PLAY DUMB. BE BORING. DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS. AND ABOVE ALL, DON'T BE YOURSELF.Not exactly what you'd expect to hear from a communication expert, but these counterintuitive strategies are precisely what we need to interact productively and meaningfully in today's digital world. Our overreliance on quick, cheap, and easy means of "staying connected" is eroding our communication skills. Speed steamrolls thoughtfulness; self-expression trumps restraint. Errors and misunderstanding...

Discover the six counter-intuitive dials to turn right now in your relationship. these are proven happiness boosters. and let's face it, knowing how to make happiness -- the deep and abiding joy of feeling good together -- isn't always easy for time-starved and sleep-deprived couples. Making Happy will change all that by:Instantly making your relationship 25 percent happier.Countering the effects of taking each other for granted so you can notice even more things you...

Building Self-Esteem in GirlsGuidelines and Advice for Parents and TeachersRaise self-empowered girls**.** Studies show that young girls often develop faster than their male counterparts, grasping concepts such as math and sports just as easily─until they reach early adolescence. Then, girls quickly fall behind boys, victims to society's confusing dictates of what being female means. 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Es...

Good friends and healthy friendships are crucial to women’s well-being at every stage of life. But what happens when a friendship turns toxic? When a friend becomes hurtful or mistreats another? When a friend abandons another in a time of need? Here, Suzanne Degges-White and Judy Pochel Van Tieghem explore such toxic friendships and how women navigate the ups and downs, as well as how broken friendships can be mended and bad friendships ended.Explaining and illustrating the “rules ...

Backbone Power The Science of Saying No brings insight into waking up, making the decision to set an intention, and accept the challenge of learning to say NO, which means YES for you. As you begin practicing your own self-care and gaining inner peace, you will come to the realization that you are the priority. This book is targeted towards: • Families dealing with addicts • Codependent addicts who are currently sober • Anyone who says “I hate conflict” “I will do anything to avoid conflic...

How bad is your anger? Do you control it, or does it control you? Has it wrecked your life, or does it hurt the lives of others?This book is informative, interactive and insightful in helping people identify their “anger type(s)”, their triggers, and providing proven anger management tools that will work best for helping people overcome self-destructive anger patterns and behaviors. Furthermore, it will engage readers in helping those who possess “millennial anger types” provoked b...

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s ca...

How did this happen? You wake up one day and discover that everyone else seems to be part of a couple. You see them walking hand in hand, or laughing over dinner. They’re at the movies or the coffee shop...it's a daily reminder that you're still single. Maybe you got too caught up in your career to be distracted by dating. Maybe you were too picky? Maybe you wasted too much time waiting for your ex to get his act together. Maybe you kept falling for the wrong kind of guys, ...