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Ashley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online. Best friend Nikki is holding a huge secret. And why is husband Chris receiving so many text messages lately? Their teenage children are glued to technology, be it PlayStation, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat.... The two women hatch a plan: for three weeks, both families will stay in a rustic, remote coastal camp with no phone reception.

If you find that screen time is taking over your life, or your family is too attached to their phones, then the valuable teachings in Disconnect to Connect are for you. Technology and social media are now integrated in every facet of our lives imaginable. It’s in our work, our children’s education, and when we’re finished, our down time for entertainment. Much of our lives are now spent staring at our phones and TVs, and we even use them to bond with our families and friends. It may seem innocent, until you realize that you’re spending hours on end glued to your screens—sometimes all day!

Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home.

Do you feel that there should be more to sensual pleasure than what you are currently experiencing? Intimacy is not only pleasurable, but it is also a great way to enhance one’s emotional connection and communication with our partner. As with everything else, you need to allow yourself to open up to the possibility of experiencing passion more strongly. Thereafter, you need to feel it throughout your being and feel mildly electrified. In the Multiple Sensual Climaxes series, you will be guided to exercise your intimacy stamina until vigor grips you deeply and you feel recharged.

In How to Say It to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them.

Showing you what you need to know and giving you a clear framework for putting numbers to reputation, this audiobook merges content and measurement to give today's PR agencies a new way to build brands, evaluate performance, and track ROI. The ability to reach the new consumer, build the relationship, and quantify the ROI of PR services allows you to develop an inbound business and the internal capabilities to meet and exceed the needs of the most demanding client. In this digital age of constant contact and worldwide platforms, it's the only way to sustainably grow your business.

For seventeen-year-old Maya, the equation for happiness is simple: a dream internship at MIT + two new science nerd friends + a perfect boyfriend = one amazing summer. Then Whit dumps her out of the blue. Maya is miserable until she discovers that her scientist mother, before she died, was conducting research on manipulating pheromones to enhance human attraction.

Vielleicht möchten Sie jetzt etwas Wahrhaftiges und Sinnvolles hören. Etwa, wie Sie sich und Ihren Mitmenschen in einer anderen Tiefe begegnen können. Sind Sie auf der Suche nach einer Form der Kommunikation, die Ihnen noch mehr Bewusstsein und Impulse für Veränderung schenkt? Oder Sie erfahren mit diesem Hörbuch eine wohltuende Zufriedenheit, weil Sie sich in vielem gesehen und bestätigt fühlen. All diese Punkte und noch viele mehr werden in diesem Audio-Workshop behandelt. Da das Thema "Sinnvolle Kommunikation" eine besondere Form der Nähe schafft, werde ich ab jetzt zum wertschätzenden "Du" übergehen.

The Art of Relationship Building is a powerful and practical guide for teens who want to build stronger, healthier connections — with friends, family, partners, and most importantly, themselves. Packed with real-life examples, empowering advice, and step-by-step tools, this book helps teens navigate communication, boundaries, self-care, and social media with confidence and clarity.

If you’ve ever flipped off a driver who cut you off, typed a heated all-caps rant online, or spiraled into a meltdown over a minor annoyance, then this book might just be your new best friend. I wrote it out of frustration with my own primal impulses undermining work relationships, friendships, and inner peace. We are, after all, descendants of apes, and sometimes our ancient “monkey brain” goes bananas in the modern world.

Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads is essential listening for parents today. It offers us the tools to become wiser, more relaxed parents, and the inspiration to speak out, act according to our values, show humility, and set the kind of example that will make a real difference in our children's lives.

Don’t Be a Puppet–A Teen’s Guide to Recognizing and Avoiding Manipulation is a bold and practical guide for teens who are ready to take back control. Whether it’s a friend using guilt, someone twisting your words, or subtle pressure that makes you question yourself—this book helps you spot manipulation for what it is and walk away from it.

Communication Skills for Teens provides the guidance you need to become a better communicator and succeed in all areas of life. You'll also learn tons of essential life skills, including active listening, assertiveness, clarifying language, the art of an apology, compassion, interviewing skills, family communication, and more. Each chapter focuses on one key aspect of communication, offers a real teen's perspective, and includes practical exercises to help you apply what you've learned in the real world-away from your computer and smartphone screens.

Supported by academic research focused on technology, Media Moms and Digital Dads breaks down complex issues in a friendly, accessible fashion, making it a highly useful and ultimately reassuring listen for anyone worried about the impact that media might be having on young minds. Dr. Uhls ends each chapter with a summary of the science, a bottom line for quick takeaway, and tips and guidance for parents.

Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from—and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that our culture’s idealization of motherhood was not only painfully limiting but harmful, leaving women to cope with impossible standards—standards rarely created by mothers themselves.

The perfect book for all student journalists, this young learners adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's New York Times best-selling She Said will inspire a new generation of investigative journalists.

To succeed in science and tech fields today, girls don't have to change who they are. A girl who combines her natural talents, interests, and dreams with STEM skills has a greater shot at a career she loves and a salary she deserves. The authors present compelling research in a conversational, accessible style and provide specific advice and takeaways for each stage of schooling from elementary school through college, followed by comprehensive STEM resources.

Sociologist Albert Amao analyzes the accuracy of self-help and positive-thinking claims in this groundbreaking - and wholly unexpected - exploration of what works, what doesn't, and why. Contrary to the critics who blithely dismiss self-help methods, or the New Age gurus who sell them as miracles, Amao - writing with sobriety and scholarship and drawing on deep personal experience - explores the conditions under which self-help is authentic.

This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.

Das Große 4 in 1 Hörbuch der Bestsellerautoren Sabine Altena, Ingo Hoppe und Patrick Lynen! Was ist das für eine magische Eigenschaft, die manche Menschen sofort beliebt und respektiert macht? Bei Veranstaltungen scharen sie andere um sie, jeder möchte mit ihnen ins Gespräch kommen sein und im Geschäft steigen sie schnell die Karriereleiter empor. Welche "Geheimwaffe" nutzen diese Menschen? Die Antwort lautet: Es ist ein besonderes Gespür für Beziehungen, ein geschickterer Umgang mit Menschen.