"Insightful, heartwarming, and it can help so many people." - John Quiñones, Emmy-winning ABC News Correspondent and host of What Would You Do?After more than fifty years of marriage, Michael J. Lyons knows what lasts. In this warm, practical guide, he distills a lifetime of love into sixteen simple principles - each beginning with the letter C - that describe the habits, attitudes, and choices that help marriages endure: from Commitment and Communication to Candor, Consistency, an...

Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features:A lively narrative of facts, events, people, and ideas that incorporates thoughtfu...

Recognizing that favorable clinical outcomes are associated with earlier initiation of treatment -- and even more ideally with prevention -- this volume addresses the current status of early intervention in, and prevention of, major mental and substance use disorders. A team of distinguished participants addresses this problem at many levels -- from the DNA molecule to public policy -- in order to show how prevention efforts should be informed by a better understanding of etiology and by a...

What is a musical instrument? What are the musical instruments of the future? This anthology presents thirty papers selected from the fifteen year long history of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). NIME is a leading music technology conference, and an important venue for researchers and artists to present and discuss their explorations of musical instruments and technologies.Each of the papers is followed by commentaries written by the ori...

The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the per...

Although the phenomenon of ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is well described in children, it is now thought that in up to 60% of cases the symptoms persist into adulthood. This volume reviews our growing knowledge of adult ADHD and presents a transatlantic perspective on the identification, assessment and treatment of the disorder. The introductory section covers the history of ADHD, as well as the epidemiology, consequences, gender differences and legal aspects. Detailed d...

Describing Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Modern Psychology said, "NLP Training may be the most powerful vehicle for change in existence."How different would your life be if you knew how to create powerful, resourceful states of mind such as self confidence, motivation and feelings of high self-esteem?One of the classic uses in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is for instilling a state of confidence into your future. Most adults have experienced a profound sense of con...

Many books address various aspects of ADHD -- but ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults is the only one that covers the multiple ways in which ADHD is complicated by other psychiatric and learning disorders in both children and adults. It features comprehensive, research-based information on the condition and its full range of comorbidities, from mood disorders to developmental coordination disorder, written by researcher-clinicians familiar with the co...

What if You Could Develop a Healthy Self-Esteem and a Powerful Mindset That Gives You the Ability to Go for Anything Unapologetically You Want in Life?What if you could heal the emotional traumas that made you think you don't deserve love, success, and happiness – and left you wounded for life?What if you could defeat your inner critic and lovingly embrace your imperfections?And what if you could tear down the invisible barrier that always k...

This document is designed for people who need help with their stuff. When we talk about "stuff", we mean all the things that we have to deal with daily in this fast-moving world. Email, mobile communications, meetings, digital media. All of that. It's not easy, but it is possible to manage a very high workload and multiple complex professional and personal commitments and to do so with no stress whatsoever. To achieve this requires the skills of the Productivity Ninja, and the power of Too...

50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of psychiatry. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: psychotic disorders, depressive disorders, women's mental health, child and adolescent disorders, and epidemiological studies. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case c...

Unlock The Keys To Get Motivated And Stay MotivatedHave you ever felt like a failure for being unable to motivate yourself? Is everyone else around you able to move forward and complete things seemingly at ease? Does your lack of ability to complete tasks leave you feeling frustrated like you aren't good enough?Self-motivation can help alleviate these problems. It can keep you going whenever you are at a lack of energy or simply don't "feel" like it...but why bother?