Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework.The book’s central theme is how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and comprehending the text. Like its predecessor, th...

Instead of mentors, they got monsters . . .That's what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, they've never seen humans before.As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brown—more usually known as Meg, Peg, and Teg—they're equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Age and experience have accustomed them to surprises. A widely var...

Can it get any stranger? Absolutely!When Peg, Meg, and Teg were first summoned Over Where, vast and varied life experience (along with wide reading choices) helped them adjust to a world where they were the only humans, magic was real, ships could fly, and reincarnation was a confirmed fact.In the company of the "inquisitors," Xerak, Grunwold, and Vereez, the three newly appointed mentors rediscovered the Library of the Sapphire Wind, and, within it, revelations that transf...

Beware the Book Wraith!No one is at all sure what a book wraith might be, but whatever it is definitely has the battered tomes in the Library of the Sapphire Wind very worried indeed.Figuring out what a book wraith could be is hardly the least of the challenges that the newly formed House of Rough Diamonds will face as the motley assortment of members—including three women who are literally "out of this world"—attempt to secure ownership of the Lib...

Editor's Pick — BookLife: "Brothers, magnates, and responsibility power this smart, humane historical novel."A railroad tycoon must choose between his brother's freedom and his own ambition—before one reckless act changes both their lives forever.New Hampshire, 1870. Railroad magnate George Stark has spent his life building an empire, but when his brilliant, eccentric brother Will—a poet, prankster, and devoted keeper of exotic animals—becomes embroiled in a public scandal ...

A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal -- or to burn everything in its path -- from World Fantasy Award–winning author Alaya Dawn Johnson.A girl and a god, alone in communion...In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret...

Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, Gift of Therapy, The EPB is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of the therapeutic process. This classic book on the therapist-patien...

Here’s all you need to know to stop worrying. This E book shares the top ten secrets of how to stop worrying. The fact is you’ll learn exactly how you can stop worrying and how you can start living.From one of our readers: “I never thought I could learn how to stop worrying. I’m here to tell you this stuff truly works. I found my worry stopping miracle. Thanks.”Could that be true? Yes it is, who else wants to know how to stop worrying?If you’d like to learn how to live...

What can psychology offer inclusive education? Traditionally, special education has looked to psychology for many of its theoretical resources and practical strategies. While those seeking to promote more inclusive education have tended to see psychology and psychologists as part of the problem by providing a rationale for segregation. However, in practice many psychologists today are developing inclusive ways of working, and are paying attention to psychological theories that underpin inc...

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me?Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the ou...

How do you quit being a victim to every slick telemarketer out there? Is there anyway to see a scam and get out of their way?I've been there and done that. There are reasons people have been trained into being dupes. And all these reasons can be un-trained as well - if you know how.I wrote this book based on the research I did to dig myself out of the hole I had been scammed into. I decided not to get mad or get even – just get my money back someho...

For over a century and a quarter, the science of learning has expanded at an increasing rate and has achieved the status of a mature science. It has developed powerful methodologies and applications. The rise of this science has been so swift that other learning texts often overlook the fact that, like other mature sciences, the science of learning has developed a large body of knowledge. The Science of Learning comprehensively covers this knowledge in a readable and highly system...