If you only buy one book to improve your life this year, make it this one.Temple Grandin, Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Stephen M. Shore, and many other Aspie mentors, offer their personal guidance on coping with the daily stressors that Aspies have identified as being the most significant, in order of urgency - anxiety, self-esteem, change, meltdowns, depression, friendship, love, and much, much more. Based on years of personal experience, this book is packed with advice fro...

Life is tough for a young overweight punching bag.Portland Oregon in the sixties was an exciting place for those who had good self esteem and confidence, all of which John lacked. Moving into the inner city from the suburbs didn't help any and neither did the bullies, or the gang that ruled the neighborhood. But the bullies weren't the worst of it. No, the fact that the prettiest girl in the sixth grade would rather die than be caught in his presence is what pushed...

MacLeod’s 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the Boston area to show how poor people who aspire to live the American Dream face many more obstacles than their middle-class counterparts. Challenging conventional ideas about race, MacLeod looks at the mostly white Hallway Hangers, who are delinquents and high-school dropouts, and the mostly black Brothers, who don’t u...