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  • The Last Passenger Train

    A Rail Journey Across Canada

    Join author Robert Goldstein and his wife, Melinda Denson, on a seemingly idyllic trip to celebrate his retirement by traversing Canada on the remnants of its once robust transcontinental train service. More than a routine travelogue, the author describes what happens when two individuals marry late in life, then spend a week crammed in a train compartment. Goldstein is determined to cure his ... Read more

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  • Riding with Reindeer

    A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway

    In the summer of 2007, Robert Goldstein departs Helsinki on a self-supported bicycle epic across Finland with the goal of pedaling to the Barents Sea. Aboard a folding bicycle towing a wagon, he weathers furious storms, survives a near-disastrous accident and obsesses whether he will be eaten by a bear as he makes his way through the remote forests of Eastern Finland. In sparsely populated Lapland ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gentleman from Finland

    Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express

    Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author discovers he’s on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train ticket that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn. In fact, he is a short, dark-skinned Mexican-American-Russian-Jew, who speaks only enough Russian to proclaim that he is Bob, the tourist from America. As the trip unfolds, ... Read more

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  • Seven Steps for Building Social Skills in Your Child

    A Family Guide

    Series series Seven Steps Family Guides
    Teaching children how to navigate the complex social universe, this everyday strategy guide helps them to develop healthy social skills. Informed by current research on character development, this handbook helps parents, educators, and health-care workers understand which critical social skills determine future success and how to incorporate the teaching of those skills into everyday life. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Resilience in Children

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to ... Read more

    $472.69 CAD

  • Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative

    Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience—an assumption that still widely dominates folk psychology as well as the perspective of many mental health practitioners. This tendency continues despite powerful evidence from the field of behavioral genetics that genetic endowment dwarfs other discrete influences ... Read more

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  • Cat's Whisker

    Cat's Whisker is the story of Samuel Baron, an engineer, inventor, and successful entrepreneur. Trained as a scientist, Baron nonetheless nurtures a lifelong fascination with mysticism and spirituality, investigating themes as varied and interesting as meditation, jiu-jitsu, biology, anthropology, tai chi, BDSM-and the search for the perfect cocktail. His life is a quest-ultimately a successful ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Robert Hayden

    Essays on the Poetry

    Series series Under Discussion
    This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a modernist writer with affinities to T. S. Eliot, Federico ... Read more

    $26.79 CAD

  • The Betta Handbook

    Series series B.E.S. Pet Handbooks
    Titles in B.E.S.'s popular series of Pet Handbooks present comprehensive information and helpful advice from breeders, veterinarians, and other pet experts. These full-color books instruct on housing, feeding, healthcare, and more. In The Betta Handbook, those interested in these brilliantly colored beginners' fishes will learn how to keep them well-fed and healthy so they can continue to brighten ... Read more

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  • Finding the Calm Child Within

    Raising Resilient Children with Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In the intricate landscape of childhood emotional and behavioral challenges, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) stands as one of the most daunting. Characterized by intense irritability and explosive outbursts, DMDD can transform the journey of parenting and teaching into a relentless storm, leaving families and educators searching for guidance and support. This bookoffers a beacon of ... Read more

    $25.69 CAD

  • Play Therapy Interventions to Enhance Resilience

    Series series Creative Arts and Play Therapy
    The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for intervention and describing the specific properties of play that promote resilience. Subsequent ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • The small BIG

    small changes that spark big influence

    Three experts in persuasion science reveal the small changes you can make for a big improvement in your ability to influence others.At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone. It may be your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. Most likely, the key to succeeding will be a small change in your approach—one that delivers big.In The ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD