A clinical psychologist offers an accessible guide to the "New Teen" and how parents can adjust to raising them in this emotionally challenging world.Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the Internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typ...

The shocking reexamination of the failures of US government officials to use available intelligence to stop the attack on American on September 11, 2001. “The authors lay bare…an intelligence failure of historic proportions.”—John Kiriakou, former CIA officer, author, The Convenient TerroristIn 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In th...

We have a tendency today to over-parent, micro-manage, and under-appreciate our adolescents. Dr. John Duffy's The Available Parent is a revolutionary approach to taking care of teens and tweens. Teenagers are often left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle o...

A nationally recognized parenting expert and spokesperson for fathers, Glennon presents straightforward and well-researched ways both to nurture young men and, in turn, to teach them how to be nurturing.

Parenting Teen Boys with Love and Confidence"John is the real deal… He knows what kids are dealing with, what their struggles are, where their strengths lie, what they know, and what they need."— Giuliana Rancic, journalist, television personality, and infotainer#1 Best Seller in Popular Adolescent PsychologyDr. John Duffy; bestselling author of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, clinical...

All of us yearn for a lifelong love relationship, whether it is a marriage or a friendship-or both. But few of us know the secrets to cultivating and maintaining one. Secrets for a Lifelong Love is based on John V. Duffy's experience of lifelong love in his marriage of almost 60 years. In these pages, he unlocks the secrets he has learned and shares the tips, virtues, values, statements, and problem-solving techniques that he has found beneficial*.*Both young couples plann...

Break Free from Emotionally Abusive ParentsParents Who Bully exposes the hidden epidemic of parental emotional abuse and authoritarianism, providing crucial insights and healing strategies for those affected. Learn how to break free from toxic parenting and find the path to emotional recovery and freedom.Uncover the truth about authoritarian parenting in Parents Who Bully. Through compelling real-life ac...

The Inspirational Addiction Recovery Book for Smokers of Traditional Tobacco Products and E-CigarettesLooking for a way to stop smoking for good? Bestselling author Karen Casey shares her daily meditation guide for effective recovery from addiction.Quitting nicotine is a healing process. For many people, smoking has become a part of their daily habits, which can make quitting for health or personal reasons even more diffi...

Get Back to the Person You Were Before Anxiety Took Over“This book offers practical, evidence-based exercises to assist anxiety sufferers in freeing themselves from the devastating symptoms of untreated anxiety." ―Debra Kissen, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., Clinical Director, Light on Anxiety Treatment Center; Author of The Panic Workbook for Teens#1 Best Seller in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Mood Disorders, and Self-Esteem &...

Teenagers are left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. Well, the truth of the matter is, you can physically be right next to someone and still not really be available to them. If you need them to be something they’re not, if you are...

At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who “drag down” their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States. Readers will be on the front lines of the protests in Madison, in the inner city public-turned-charter schools, and in the shoes of the teachers dealing with e...

After Plato redefines the relationships of rhetoric for scholars, teachers, and students of rhetoric and writing in the twenty-first century. Featuring essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field, the book explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies—including feminist, postmodern, transnational, non-Western, and virtue ethics—and examines the place of ethics in writing classrooms, writing centers, writing across the curri...