Pound Pup Legacy

author: Brenda Scott asin: 1563840693 binding: Paperback list price: $10.99 USD amazon price: $10.99

author: Barbara Bennett Woodhouse asin: 0691126909 binding: Hardcover list price: $27.95 USD amazon price: $20.40 USD

Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults alone.

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of children's rights throughout American history, interweaving the childhood stories of iconic figures such as Benjamin Franklin with those of children less known but no less courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for civil rights. How did America become a place where twelve-year-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those who misguidedly believe that America's children already have more rights than they need, or that children's rights pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential to a child's journey into adulthood, and why understanding rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights for all.

Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national resistance--and moral responsibility--to recognize children's rights.

author: Richard Halvorsen asin: 1903933927 binding: Paperback

Peace Between the Sheets: Healing with Sexual Relationships author: Marnia Robinson asin: 1583940871 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $11.53 USD

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Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy author: Dean Ornish asin: 0060930209 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $11.20 USD

Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy (Paperback)

Love and survival. What do they have to do with one another? This book is based on a simple but powerful idea: Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

For the past 20 years, Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed clinical research, demonstrating -- for the first time -- that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse severe coronary heart disease without drugs or surgery. Now, this "impossible" idea has become mainstream.

Although most people tend to think of Dr. Ornish''s program as being primarily about diet, he has found that perhaps the most powerful and meaningful intervention is love and intimacy and the emotional and spiritual transformation that often results. Yet those factors are largely ignored by the medical profession, which tends to focus primarily on the physical and mechanistic: drugs and surgery, genes and germs, microbes and molecules.

Dr. Ornish is a pioneer once more as he persuasively argues that love and intimacy are a root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. If a new drug had that same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for their patients.

There is a deep spiritual hunger in this country as we approach the end of the 20th century and a new millennium. According to Dr. Ornish, the real epidemic in our culture is what he calls emotional and spiritual heart disease, the profound sense of loneliness, isolation, alienation and depression that is so prevalent today as the social structures thatused to provide us with a sense of connection and community break down. We are only now beginning to appreciate what the radical shifts in our society in the past 50 years really mean.

"Love and Survival" also chronicles Dr. Ornish''s personal journey along with his experiences as a physician and scientist. He also provides a comprehensive review of research supporting the powerful role of intimacy in health and illness, reveals in very personal terms his own struggles with intimacy and meaning and describes strategies and techniques for enhancing intimacy and communication.

"Love and Survival" is filled with powerful stories from Dr. Ornish''s clinical and personal experiences. He takes his examination a step further by talking with eminent healers, scientists, theologians, psychologists, physicians, therapists and authors, each of whom provides a fascinating perspective on why love and intimacy are such powerful determinants of health and survival. In addition, Dr. Ornish''s photographs, reflecting isolation and connection, illustrate the book.

Three Little Words: A Memoir author: Ashley Rhodes-Courter asin: 1416948066 binding: Hardcover list price: $17.99 USD amazon price: $12.23 USD

"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.

Painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative,humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice.

Toxic Relationships: How to Regain Lost Power in Your Relationship author: Kimberly J. Brasher asin: 0972731407 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $10.17 USD

Book Description

An eye-opening look at relationships in our lives that cause us pain and frustration with a spouse, in-law, parent, sibling, or a controlling toxic boss! Relationships that are Toxic also create stress for the non-toxic partners. After more than a decade of research, this book defines through real life cases and examples a personality type that is controlling, dominant, self-absorbed, insensitive, and lacking trust, etc. to the point of being toxic or poisonous to the relationship. After defining the personality type, this book shows how to take back the controls you have surrendered in the relationship, through Empowerment Skills, and by doing so, make YOU and your relationship stronger and healthier. There's also a Relationship Test to determine how Toxic your relationship is to you. You can learn how Toxic people become Toxic, and most important...how you can spot this personality type in the future so that you can avoid Toxic Relationships in your future.

About the Author
Kimberly J. Brasher, BS, JD, Author, Attorney, former Mrs. America, is a practicing attorney in the area of family law, bankruptcy, and wills and trusts. Through her extensive research and work in the area of family law:divorce she has developed a pattern for relationships that ultimately end up dissolving which she terms, Toxic Relationships. Most important, she has discovered a new way to alter the dynamics of Toxic Relationships in the interest of ultimately saving the relationship. Kimberly has been married 22 years. Her husband, Greg, is a dentist,and they have 7 children.

author: Nell Bernstein asin: 1565849523 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.95 USD amazon price: $19.72 USD

An intimate and heartwrenching investigation into the lives of children of imprisoned parents, by an award-winning journalist.

"I think they shouldn't have took my mama to jail….Give her the opportunity to make up for what she did. Using drugs, she's hurting herself. You take her away from me, now you're hurting me."—Terrence, a fifteen-year-old boy left to fend for himself after his mother was imprisoned for nonviolent drug possession

One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision—incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children—and one in eight African American children—goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.

Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family, journalist Nell Bernstein shows, through the deeply moving stories of real families, how the children of the incarcerated are routinely punished for their parents' status: ignored, neglected, stigmatized, and endangered, with minimal effort made to help them cope.

Topics range from children's experiences at the time of their parent's arrest, to laws and policies that force even low-level offenders to forfeit their parental rights, to alternative sanctions that take into account prisoners' status as mothers and fathers.
All Alone in the World defines a crucial aspect of criminal justice and, in doing so, illuminates a critical new realm of human rights.

Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War author: William Saletan asin: 0520243366 binding: Paperback list price: $17.95 USD amazon price: $16.15 USD

Saletan tells how, beginning in Arkansas in 1986 during the administration of Governor Bill Clinton, the National Abortion Rights Action League repackaged the abortion issue to give it broader appeal to conservatives. Pro-choice conservatives adopted this new rhetoric and made the abortion issue their own. Saletan takes us through the key events in the ensuing story–the fight over the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, the election of Governor Doug Wilder in Virginia, the convergence of the Bush and Clinton positions on abortion in 1992, and much more–right up to the present day.

This book is a crucial lesson in how politicians and interest groups can change the way we vote, not by telling us facts or lies, but by reshaping the way we think–in part through mass marketing. Today, the abortion rights movement must ask itself what it has won and what it is fighting for. This book is sure to play a role in answering that question.

Oceans Apart: A Voyage of International Adoption author: Mary Mustard Reed asin: 097993270X binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $14.21 USD