Product Description: Expanded edition! A radical fairy tale for adults to help face the fears that consume us. The Three Little Pigs is a story of your own transformation. Which little pig are you? Who is your wolf? What does it say about your own past, present, future? "This book is excellent...read more

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Product Description: This comprehensive introduction to adult development and aging offers balanced treatment of the early, middle, and late adult development stages. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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An NPR commentator offers her observations on her youthful decadence in New Jersey, heroin, family pets, abortion, breast-feeding in public, siblings, AIDS, a lost purse, and a father's death

Product Description: Reporting research that provides an invaluable tool for utilizing individual capability, it makes it possible for talent pool development programs to effectively meet the organization's future human resource requirements. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Myrtle McGraw’s pioneering contributions to the field of child development have been readily acknowledged and documented, yet controversy persists among psychologists as to how to interpret her ideas about significant factors that influence learning...read more

A sequel to the best-selling Passages introduces the new frontier of life, a Second Adulthood that occurs in middle life, discussing the characteristics and opportunities of this period of life. Reprint. Tour.

Product Description: This volume is one of the first to concentrate on positive growth and development in a clinical arena, rather than loss and pathology. In contrast to the general theories and cross-sectional studies of existing adult developmental research, much of this volume looks at the whole-life level of development of adults through case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A ground-breaking new theory about the psychological maturation process proposes the existence of a template built into the human unconscious that is responsible for overseeing psychological growth. 50,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. (view table of contents)

Helps the reader recognize what stage of development they are stuck in, and offers ideas for changing old patterns of behavior to develop their true worth and value

Product Description: With great insight and empathy, Dr. Mary E. Mercer reflects on happiness and the difficulties we encounter at each stage of life, pointing out that all growth requires separation from previous attachments and loves. As we move from infancy to old age, the pain of each separation lifts us to a higher level of awareness of ourselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Explores the spiritual and emotional dimensions of aging and explains why each of us must confront certain issues in middle age in order to bring peace to our later years

Product Description: Written in a warm and humanistic style with an abundance of examples this solid, comprehensive introduction to the essentials of psychology offers an accessible balance of theory, research and applications and encourages students to apply material to their personal, social, educational, and vocational lives...read more

Explores the dramatic changes that have occured in traditional male roles, assesses their implications in terms of men's goals, hopes, and aspirations, and explains how men can rediscover the secrets of a satisfying and productive life

Essential Papers on the Psychology of Aging contains the classic papers on the period of human development that begins with young adulthood and ends with old age and death. Including material on theory and methodology; basic psychological processes; personality and social psychology; and clinical, applied, and health psychology, the volume presents the best work published in the field, from classic papers to cutting-edge research. Contributors to the volume include P. B. Baltes, J. E. Birren, W. E. Henry, K. F. Riegel, K. W. Schaie, D. Arenberg, H. P. Bahrick, L. K. Hall, D. B. Bromley, D. M. Burke, L. L. Light, N. Charness, F. I. M. Craik, J. McDowd, J. C. Foster, G. A. Taylor, J. G. Gilbert, J. L. Horn, R. B. Cattrell, H. E. Jones, H. S. Conrad, H. C. Lehman, C. C. Miles, W. R. Miles, A. E. D. Schonfield, E. A. Robertson, K. Sward, A. T. Welford, P. T. Costa, R. R. McCrae, B. L. Frederickson, L. L. Carstensen, D. Gutmann, J. S. Jackson, L. M. Chattters, R. J. Taylor, R. Kastenbaum, N. Kogan, M. E. Lachman, G. Bavouvie-Vief, M. De Voe, D. Bulka, M. F. Lowenthal, C. Haven, R. Schulz, M. M. Baltes, S. Honn, E. M. Barton, M. Orzech, D. Lago, F. M. Carp, M. F. Elias, N. R. Schultz, M. A. Robbins, P. K. Elias, R. L. Kahn, S. H. Zarit, N. M. Hilbert, G. Niederehe, J. K. Kiecolt- Glaser, R. Glaser, E. C. Shuttleworth, C. S. Cyer, P. Ogrocki, C. E. Speicher, B. Simon, M. A. Lieberman, S. S. Tobin, V. N. Prock, G. M. McEvoy, W. F. Cascio, S. A. Murrell, S. Himmelbarb, B. L. Neugarten, R. J. Havighurst, C. D. Ryff, K. W. Schaie, S. L. Willis, F. Scogin, L. McElreth, and L. W. Thompson. (view table of contents)

A respected family therapist discusses the difficulties of learning to accept adulthood and its responsibilities in our youthoriented culture, offering witty and practical advice for learning to take responsibility and recognize the value of commitment and maturity. Reprint.

Product Description: Search for Maturity in an original way deals with open problems encountered by all people - sense of life, the creative acceptance of life situations, a question of good and evil, a question of God, and authenticity of religion. It is addressed to people who ask basic questions and search for answers no matter what their religion or worldview is...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When a plane explodes shortly after taking off from Europe, Casey Collins, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, believes her lover was on the plane, but when she arrives in Europe to uncover the truth, she is plunged into a world of fear and is accused of being the terrorist responsible for the bombing of the plane. Reprint. LJ. AB.

Product Description: A warm, encouraging book that offers a way to rid ourselves of the anxiety, confusion, stress , and feelings of hopelessness so common today with a simple step-by-step program of self-siscovery and self-education. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With the assistance of interviews with a diverse group of women, a practical and amusing guide explores the dread many single women feel toward their thirtieth birthday and offers reasoned, encouraging advice on such topics as career and romance. Original. IP.