Human Development

When we talk about pregnancy, we too often end up talking clinically and sentimentally. Pregnancy is medical details and a whirl of emotions. It is vitamins and baby showers and feelings. But it is so much more. In Showing, Agnes Howard takes us beyond clinical reductionism and fluffy sentimentality to show us how to take pregnancy seriously as hard but important work. It is not just a bodily process, she argues, but an active work of care - one that underscores the generosity and mutual dependence we all require in order to live.

Managing your own life is complicated enough, so simultaneously being responsible for a child can almost feel impossible! Perhaps you have just had your first child, and you are worried that you don’t have the skills you need to be responsible. Or maybe you are currently expecting, and you want to learn as much as you can about becoming a great parent before your child is born.

This audiobook can be of help to you. With this audiobook, you will be able to “read a person” by learning non-verbal communication that helps in understanding what a person's body “says”. You do not have to let the worry of communication keep you away from your goals. This book allows you to get in the game and get started. This audiobook version has been designed for the purpose of being listened to everywhere, so you can keep it with you, always.

What if we didn't put a leash on love? What if the actual love experience could mean more and not less? This is not the society we grew up in. We grew up with people all around, all trying to control our every step, not to mention our bodies! They want to control everything that happens in and out of our bodies. But especially the outer form, the part of us everybody sees but no one truly cares about.

The world we live in is more prone to capitalizing on our differences, we are quick to forget that our lives are all interlinked. This book helps to understand how to listen to your personal intuition and how to embrace human nature when facing good and bad times.

In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and create a more robust undergraduate curriculum for the 21st century.

If you want to learn how to read and analyze people, and how to protect yourself from manipulators, then pay attention...Are you sick and tired of assuming that someone is an amazing friend, only to have them betray you? Do you wish there was an easy way to discover who's genuine and who isn't? Do you want to find out the secrets of persuasion, mind control, and body language, which people use to influence others? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this audiobook is for you.

Welchen Sex, welche Liebschaften oder Beziehungen brauchen wir, um glücklich zu sein? Diesen Fragen stellt sich Anna Zimt nach einer aufregenden Lebensphase. Wie war das, als sie zum ersten Mal den Mut aufbrachte, im Bett zu sagen, was sie will? Oder als sie den gut aussehenden Typen in der Bahn doch noch ansprach? Und von welchen Beziehungsmustern musste sie sich lösen, um endlich bei sich anzukommen?

Tracking Our Inner Animal is the beginning of a clearly marked trail. A trail toward an elevated perspective of yourself, your family, of your world. Toward commanding your own mental health. Toward processing and healing long-carried emotional baggage and trauma. A path to knowing not only who you are, but also, WHY you are.

Does your mind go back again and again to thoughts about what you both did or said and to those fateful scenes that led to the breakup? Was there something either of you could have done differently? Fear, grief, shame, shock, anger, and pain all jockey for head space. It is a challenging time for both sides, but even more so for men who are expected to be strong and show no sign of weakness or self-doubt.

In this extensive guide, you will see a ton of topics anyone would enjoy when studying the forces of persuasion and manipulation. Humans are deceitful creatures sometimes, and it shows in the way they communicate and act. For you to survive the lies, it is important that you know what to look for. Moreover, when you know how to influence others, you can use that knowledge to your benefit for the right purposes.

Re-Creation: Surviving the Human Experience is a unique book that takes the listener on a journey through Anna's dark past she never realized existed. She uncovers a life filled with deceit and abusive relationships. Anna became so beaten down and overwhelmed that she actually encounters a near death experience. It took all of these experiences for her to recognize how she lost herself trying to please others.

This positive, thoroughly researched handbook will teach you strategies to help you set up your children and pre-teens with healthy tech and non-tech habits for life.

Have you ever been talking with someone and had your thoughts or feelings drastically changed within just a few minutes? Maybe you walked away wondering what happened? How did a short conversation have such a powerful effect on you? Maybe you've been on the other side and influenced someone else's thoughts or opinions in a massive way. If so, you've had a glimpse into the realm of real influence. This is a skill that you can master and learn. You can also learn to protect yourself from people who are trying to use dark influence on you.

O Pai-Nosso é uma das orações mais recitadas em todo o mundo, mas poucas pessoas compreendem a profundidade das mensagens que ela traz. Com a intenção de desvendar os segredos ocultos nas palavras de Jesus e de revelar o poder transformador dessa prece, Augusto Cury escreveu a coleção Os segredos do Pai-Nosso. Embora os dois audiolivros se complementem, eles podem ser ouvidos de forma independente, pois abordam temas distintos: o primeiro estuda as características de Deus e o segundo, A sabedoria nossa de cada dia, trata da personalidade humana, seus dilemas e conflitos.

Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

Purpose, Passion, and Pajamas is the story of Genevieve Piturro’s triumphant leap off the corporate ladder to find her life’s true calling. What started with a simple question from a little girl led Genevieve to conceive and build the nonprofit Pajama Program in 2001, resulting in a featured appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show and an awe-inspiring display of compassion throughout the US and beyond. Today, Pajama Program has distributed over seven million pairs of pajamas, opened 63 chapters across the US, and established reading centers for children.

Mary's Choices summarizes the 12 Life Choices that Mother Mary made during her lifetime and captures some profound concepts and understandings that support us in mastering the human experience. The book is a series of 15 Questions and Answers that meaningfully capture the relevance of each of Mary's 12 Life Choices in a simple and beautiful way. Via Mary's example, we have a practical roadmap to reach ascended levels of living beyond our usual day-to-day understandings.

Being afraid of failure may lead to a wide variety of destructive inactive decisions. There are remedies that may lessen the impact of dread on our emotions and connections. It might be scary to take calculated steps toward our professional and personal goals. But you need to be willing to put in some effort in order to succeed. Self-protective habits might become more appealing in times of stress.

On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night, bludgeoned him nearly to death, tortured and killed his wife and two daughters, and set their house on fire. He miraculously survived, and yet living through those horrific hours was only the beginning of his ordeal. Broken and defeated, Bill was forced to confront a question of ultimate consequence: How does a person find the strength to start over and live again after confronting the darkest of nightmares?