books about: death-free     books:       When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens21 reviews Bev Cobain Free Spirit Publishing, 2007 Helps teens take an active role in beating depression This book combines compassion and empowerment with accurate information. The author, a cousin of singer Curt Cobain, wrote this book to help make sense of her cousin's suicide. It is readable, knowledgeable and thorough. It helps adolescents understand what they might be feeling when they are depressed. It discusses how to interrupt the downward spiral and find a way out. The book covers both ...             Helping Children Cope With the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups6 reviews William C. Kroen Free Spirit Publishing, 1996 A Must Read even if you are not facing this challenge Every parent, educator and concerned adult should read this book even if they are not currently helping a child through the loss of a loved one. Parents often spend a great deal of time reading about child development but they should not deglect another important part of development -- learning and dealing with death. This book was extremely valuable with helping me help my children deal with ...             The Death Of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed The Truth And Divided America15 reviews John Ziegler Cumberland House Publishing, 2005 An important book for our times This book covers some very important ground about the media's role in crafting and enforcing the rules of political correctness; and how fear of "speech punishment" mutes our own free speech rights and makes a genuine and productive national dialogue impossible. Anyone interested in free speech should read this book. The only criticisms I have is the book is written in *exactly* the same ...             Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide20 reviews Cobain, Jean Larch Hazelden, 2006 Much Appreciated At a difficult time in our family's lives, it was comforting to read this book to maybe understand in some way what happened or what drives a person to this point. Especially when there wasn't even a hint as to why.             Death to Diabetes: The Six Stages of Type 2 Diabetes Control & Reversal (Version 1.0)34 reviews DeWayne McCulley DeWayne McCulley, 2005 The Valuable Knowledge in This Book Can Change Your Life This is a fantastic book on how to manage, control and perhaps reverse Type II Diabetes. The author Mr. DeWayne McCulley who has a background in biochemical engineering really did his research on the subject of Type II Diabetes. This book is first hand knowledge from the author who had almost died from and then was able to reverse the disease. The book is very clearly written, understood ...             Breaking Free (Heartland #3)43 reviews Lauren Brooke Scholastic Paperbacks, 2000 My Review Heartland Breaking Free by Lauren Brook is an excellent book. Amy's mom died and her mom's favorite horse is very sick and getting worse by the day. Business is running low and a famous show jumper (Lisa Stillman) is taken to Heartland, the horse farm. Amy's sister and her friend came up with an idea. Heartland would have an open house! I liked Heartland Breaking Free because it has horses ...             The Denial of Death53 reviews Ernest Becker Free Press, 1997 Insightful, brilliant, clearly written, easy to digest, hard to stop thinking about Ernest Becker was a great summarizer of others ideas. He takes an idea like "How can people be happy when they know they will die?", and then looks at the works of psychologists to find their opinion. The result of his effort is a masterpiece. Becker writes clearly, gives credit to others, and draws new conclusions by analyzing the insights of his reading. You can understand a majority of the ...             What to Do When You're Scared and Worried: A Guide for Kids8 reviews James J. Crist Free Spirit Publishing, 2004 Wonderful conversation starter This book was wonderful and a tool I'll use with my 9-year old son again! It was a conversation-starter because I was able to learn things that made my son anxious about that I wasn't even aware of and he felt less isolated because I completed the activities with him and was able to show him that everyone fears some things. My son really enjoyed reading it and it was a great bonding ...             The Birth and Death of Meaning14 reviews Ernest Becker Free Press, 1971 a FIRST BOOK to read if you see the world as a "problem" Ernest takes your innocent little hand and walks you through human organismic life from the beginning, and quickly paralyzes you with observations like this: (quote-page 67) "The child learns painfully that he cannot earn parental approval...by continuing to express himself with his body...(his) self-value no longer derives from the mother's milk, but from the mother's mouth. The change is ...             What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?6 reviews Trevor Romain Free Spirit Publishing, 1999 Honestly Helpful I searched through all the books on the amazon website related to helping children face death of a loved one. I read all the reviews, ordered all the books that sounded good. I then read all the books that sounded good and this is my top pick. I gave it to a five year old whose grandmother had died. His father told me that it helped him just as much as his son. I am writing this review, sadly, ...             When A Friend Dies: A Book For Teens About Grieving & Healing9 reviews Marilyn E. Gootman, Pamela Espeland Free Spirit Publishing, 2005 It helped. A LOT. I just recently lost a close friend to a car accident and reading this book made me feel like I wasn't alone. So many of the teen quotes from the book were exactly what I was thinking. A lot of the things the book said showed me that I wasn't alone and that so many people were feeling the same thing. I'm passing the book around to friends who've also shared the same loss. I suggest this book to ...             The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities9 reviews Mike Tidwell Free Press, 2007 Climate Change is Real The flooding of New Orleans resulted from a combination of effects: subsiding land, sea level increase, destruction of protecting wetlands, and of course a violent storm. Tidwell's thesis is that sea level will continue to rise and tropical storms and hurricanes will increase in intensity, all as a result of climate change. The entire East Coast of the United States will be as vulnerable as was ...             How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) Leon F. Litwack Harvard University Press, 2009 In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same ...             Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume Annette C. Baier Harvard University Press, 2008 Reviewing Annette Baier?s 1995 work Moral Prejudices in the London Review of Books , Richard Rorty predicted that her work would be read hundreds of years hence; Baier?s subsequent work has borne out such expectations, and this new book further extends her reach. Here she goes beyond her earlier work on David Hume to reflect on a topic that links his philosophy to questions of immediate relevance?in particular, questions about what character ...             Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine (Blue Jacket Books) (Blue ...17 reviews Robert Frump US Naval Institute Press, 2007 The true and sometimes hidden tragedy of life at sea... I am considering joining the merchant marines and this book definitley gave me an inside look into where they have been and where they are going. The main part of the book takes you along with the crew of the marine electric, and the final voyage which took several sailors to their cold, watery death. I could not put this book down as I read about the poor conditions of the ship, the varied ...             Be Safe!: Simple Strategies for Death-Free Living14 reviews Melissa Heckscher Quirk Books, 2004 Relevant and Charming This book is brimming with tons of useful and eye-opening tips that channel the hypochondriac in everyone. The author has done an exhaustive amount of research on the hazards of our day to day choices--many of which I have never even thought twice about. The mini packaging makes it an adorable and handy gift.             The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals148 reviews William J. Bennett Free Press, 1999 A timeless account of events long past... I read this short book recently, even though the events on which the book focuses are long past. I still do not know what made me pick the tiny thing up, but I am glad that I did. Bennet's college major of philosophy is easily recognized here as he discusses the events and arguments which occurred in the midst of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Each chapter is organized into a group of claims ...             Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB15 reviews Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko The Free Press, 2007 If you really want to understand where Russia is today, and how it got there Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (formerly the KGB), who later fled to the United Kingdom, where he was granted political asylum. In November of 2006, Litvinenko fell ill and died under extremely suspicious circumstances. After his death, he was found to have been poisoned with the radioactive material, ...             The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe18 reviews Robert S. Gottfried Free Press, 1985 History as it ought to be presented! This book is a long time favorite: history as it ought to be taught and presented. Gottfried has a lucid style that is easy to read, understand and remember. The book reads more interestingly than much fiction, and presents everything from a history of disease and epidemics to examples of historical detective work: what was the mortality rate in an area? Well, how many people paid taxes one year, ...             The Nature of Consciousness : The Structure of Reality: Theory of Everything Equation Revealed : Scientific ...10 reviews Jerry Davidson Wheatley Research Scientific Press, 2001 A Very Important Book I must preface my review by stating that I have never been so excited and moved by a book that I have wanted to contact the author. That is what I found myself doing upon reading this book. This book is just what its title says. The author does not "miss a beat" describing in great detail using practically every aspect of scientific knowledge from atomic structure through logic to quantum ...              search for books alexander, american, breaking, character, children, consciousness, death-free, depressed, diabetes, dissident, equation, everything, families, grieving, grownups, heartland, katrinas, lectures, litvinenko, merchant, poisoning, ravaging, reflections, revealed, reversal, scientific, strategies, structure, survival, verification books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend we recommend A timeless account of events long past... leave a comment home  impressum - about us