by Mary Pipher  Publisher Comments Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by John Elder Robison 
Powells.com Staff Pick The brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors) has created an entertaining and often surprising memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome. Whether you know someone on the autism spectrum or you're... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Howard Gardner Publisher Comments Psychologists have long understood that the art works of children relate to their intellectual and emotional development but this is the first book to describe the developmental process of drawing. Gardner explores the vital links between children’... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Virginia M Axeline Publisher Comments "The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."<BR>NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of Psychiatry<BR>Yale... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alice Miller Publisher Comments Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bruce Perry Publisher Comments Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Temple Grandin Publisher Comments Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephanie Brill Publisher Comments This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by Kathy Hoopmann
Powells.com Staff Pick At first, this book appears to be a cat lover's gift book; however, it is a delightful, clever book about the many ways that children with AS and cats are alike. The author does a great job relating useful information to readers of all ages in the... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by T Berry Brazelton Publisher Comments Based on over three decades of continuous practice and internationally recognized research, Touchpoints is the only childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who offers parents a complete understanding of... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by William Pollack Publisher Comments Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference. With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NPR's Fresh Air, and featuring articles in Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, Real Boys is one of... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D. Dan Kindlon Publisher Comments In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments Dirty looks and taunting notes are just a few examples of female bullying that girls and women have long suffered through silently and painfully. Simmons elevates the nation's consciousness and shows girls, parents, counselors, and teachers how to deal... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Selma Fraiberg Publisher Comments To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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