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Setting limits with your strong-willed child : eliminating conflict by establishing clear, firm, and respectful boundaries / by Mac Kenzie, Robert J.(CARDINAL)371501;
In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Setting Limits author Robert MacKenzie is back with even more time-proven methods for dealing with misbehavior and creating positive, respectful, and rewarding relationships with children prone to acting out and disobedience. Disruptive misbehavior, constant power struggles, manipulative or aggressive behavior--the challenges facing parents and teachers of strong-willed children can seem overwhelming at times. That's why thousands of parents and educators have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits With Your Strong-Willed Child. This revised and expanded second edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to punishment and permissiveness--moving beyond traditional methods that wear you down and get you nowhere, and zeroing in on what really works so parents can use their energy in more efficient and productive ways. With fully updated guidelines on parenting tools like "logical consequences," and examples drawn directly from the modern world that children deal with each day, this is an invaluable resource for anyone wondering how to effectively motivate strong-willed children and instill proper conduct.
Subjects: Discipline of children.; Parenting.; Problem children;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The claiming of Sleeping Beauty : an erotic novel of tenderness and cruelty for the enjoyment of men and women / by Roquelaure, A. N.,author.(CARDINAL)725434; Rice, Anne,1941-2021author.(CARDINAL)294150;
In the traditional folktale of Sleeping Beauty the spell cast upon the lovely young princess can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. However, in the world of Anne Rice, this legendary curse if broken not with a kiss but with a sexual initiation. The Prince's reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Sleeping Beauty awakes to world of a seduction, desire and love.
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Adaptations.; Fairy tales;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 26
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Reading with Patrick : a teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship / by Kuo, Michelle,author.(CARDINAL)344365;
Part I. A raisin in the sun ; The free write ; The fire next time -- Part II. The death of Ivan Ilyich -- Part III. Crime and punishment ; The lion, the witch and the wardrobe ; He wishes for the cloths of heaven ; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass ; I have read everything on this paper (the guilty plea) ; To Paula in late spring -- Part IV. Easter morningRecently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and political awakening. Convinced she can make a difference in the lives of her teenaged students, Michelle Kuo puts her heart into her work, using quiet reading time and guided writing to foster a sense of self in students left behind by a broken school system. Though Michelle loses some students to gun violence and truancy, she is inspired by students such as Patrick. Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins to thrive under Michelle's exacting attention, rising to meet her rigorous expectations. However, after two years of teaching, Michelle feels pressure from her parents and the draw of opportunities outside the Delta, and leaves Arkansas to attend law school. Years later, on the eve of her graduation, she learns that Patrick has been jailed for murder. Feeling that she had left the Delta prematurely, and determined to fix her mistake, Michelle returns to Helena and resumes Patrick's education--even as he sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Every day for the next seven months they pore over classic novels, poems, and works of history. Little by little, Patrick grows into a confident, expressive writer and a dedicated reader galvanized by the works of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson, W. S. Merwin, and others. In her time reading with Patrick, Michelle is herself transformed, contending with the legacy of racism and the question of what the privileged owe to those with bleaker prospects.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Prisoners; Alternative schools; Prisoners; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 20
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College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / by Karpowitz, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)414477;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A Note on Text -- 1. Getting In: Conflicting Voices and the Politics of College in Prison -- 2. Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration -- 3. Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment -- 4. The First Graduation: Figures of Speech -- 5. Replication and Conclusions: College, Prison, and Inequality in America."This book tells the story of the Bard Prison Initiative--a unique example of academic excellence unfolding inside high-security prisons across New York. Through the Initiative, hundreds of incarcerated men and women go to Bard College full-time while still in prison, and thrive at the highest academic levels the college has to offer. This remarkable student body is demographically identical to the larger population of people in New York's prisons, and thus quite unlike those students who usually have access to, and succeed in, America's leading liberal arts colleges. Those who have graduated and left prison are thriving in for-private companies, leading service agencies, and completing further study at elite graduate schools for academia and the professions. The rigor and depth of what and how these students learn, and the careers they pursue once home, force us to rethink preconceptions about who is in prison, what American systems of punishment really mean, and the continued relevance of liberal learning"--"The nationally renowned Bard Prison Initiative demonstrates how the liberal arts can alter the landscape inside prisons by expanding access to the transformative power of American higher education. American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative, however, is different. As this compelling new book reveals, BPI has fostered a remarkable transformation in the lives of thousands of prisoners.College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided a high-quality liberal arts education--with courses ranging from anthropology to Mandarin to advanced mathematics--to New York State prisoners who, upon release, have gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how institutions can be reimagined and reformed in order to give people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities.Drawing upon fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts the educational histories of individual students, tracking both their intellectual progress and the many obstacles they must face. Analyzing the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions--the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary--he makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States"--
Subjects: Bard College; Prisoners; Education, Higher; Prison administration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Vita nostra / by Di͡achenko, Marina,author.(CARDINAL)393003; Di͡achenko, Serhiĭ,1945-2022,author.(CARDINAL)729013; Hersey, Julia Meitov,translator.(CARDINAL)795533;
"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies. Though she does not want to go to this unknown town or school, she also feels it's the only place she should be. Against her mother's wishes, Sasha leaves behind all that is familiar and begins her education. As she quickly discovers, the institute's "special technologies" are unlike anything she has ever encountered. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures; instead, their families pay a terrible price. Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time; experiences which are nothing she has ever dreamed of... and suddenly all she could ever want."--Front jacket flap.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction.; Teenage girls; Psychological abuse; Manipulative behavior;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21
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The essential 55 : an award-winning educator's rules for discovering the successful student in every child / by Clark, Ron,1971-(CARDINAL)672376;
Subjects: Conduct of life.; Teaching.;
Available copies: 43 / Total copies: 50
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The art of being assertive : become positive, effective, and successful -- the assertive way / by Curtet, Jennifer,authornarrator.(local)tlcaut18173995950100;
Disc 1: 1. Get to know Jennifer -- 2. Story of a princess -- 3. Big fat line -- 4. Building respect -- 5. Neutron Jack -- 6. Your focus -- 7. Be effective -- 8. Your three choices -- 9. WIIFM -- 10. Assertiveness quotient -- 11. Florence Chadwick story. Disc 2: 1. What's in your mind -- 2. Affirmations -- 3. The story of Sister Mary -- 4. Her favorite student -- 5. You have the right -- 6. The three caveats of being direct -- 7. The sundown rule -- 8. Be specific and non-punishing -- 9. Corey's right to choose -- 10. The whole package. Disc 3: 1. Perception is reality -- 2. Words to stay away from -- 3. Your tone -- 4. Body language -- 5. Going to Japan! -- 6. Assertive communication model -- 7. Start with the basics (Steps 1-3) -- 8. Present benefits (Step 4) -- 9. Gaining commitment (Step 5) -- 10. Approach -- 11. Common traps -- 12. Remain in control -- 13. Your responsibility -- 14. Visualize success -- 15. Choose your attitude. Disc 4: 1. Create a plan -- 2. Knowing me -- 3. Grow -- 4. Be proactive -- 5. Your day -- 6. Be persistent -- 7. Lighten up -- 8. Take care of me -- 9. Be patient. Disc 5: 1. Motivation -- 2. Favorites list -- 3. Story of Michael Stone -- 4. Art of negotiation -- 5. Art of persuasion -- 6. Characteristics of authority -- 7. Strategies that work -- 8. Value driven communication -- 9. Mastering the task -- 10. Seeing eye-to-eye -- 11. Acting like crabs -- 12. Psychology needs -- 13. Do unto others. Disc 6: 1. Behaviors of conflict -- 2. Being irate -- 3. Insistent behavior -- 4. Indecisive behavior -- 5. Imposter behavior -- 6. Dealing with conflict -- 7. Story of Paganini -- 8. More on NSG.Training expert, Jennifer Curtet."Assertiveness, not aggressiveness, is the key to getting heard, earning respect, and being recognized and rewarded for your strengths.... [A]ssertiveness expert Jennifer Curtet offers ideas, techniques, and how-tos for upping your 'assertiveness IQ.'... [S]he reveals how to alter your mind-set, transform your behavior and tailor your communication style to reflect a more confident, self-assured, assertive personality"--Container.
Subjects: Assertiveness (Psychology); Assertiveness training.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How to talk so little kids will listen : a survival guide to life with children ages 2-7 / by Faber, Joanna,author.(CARDINAL)415584; King, Julie(Parent educator),author.(CARDINAL)415585; Faber, Coco,illustrator.(CARDINAL)631197; Faber, Tracey,illustrator.(CARDINAL)631198; Manning, Sam Faber,illustrator.(CARDINAL)631218;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-393) and index.Foreword / Adele Faber -- Part I: The essential toolbox. Tools for handling emotions : what's all the fuss about feelings? : when kids don't feel right, they can't behave right -- Tools for engaging cooperation : feelings schmeelings, she has to brush her teeth : getting kids to do what they have to do -- Tools for resolving conflict : avoiding combat on the home front : replacing punishment with more peaceful, effective solutions -- Tools for praise and appreciation : not all odes are equal : ways to praise that will help, not hinder -- Tools for kids who are differently wired : will this work with my kid? : modifications for kids with autism and sensory issues -- The basics : you can't talk your way out of these : conditions under which the tools won't work -- Part II: The tools in action. Food fights : the battle at the kitchen table -- Morning madness : escaping the intense gravitational pull of your home -- Sibling rivalry : give the baby back! -- Shopping with children : mayhem at the market -- Lies : kids and the creative interpretation of reality -- Parents have feelings, too -- Tattling : snitches and whistle-blowers -- Cleanup : the dirtiest word -- Doctor's orders : medicine, shots, blood draws, and other horrors -- Shy kids : fear of friendly folks -- Little runaways : kids who take off in the parking lot and other public places -- Hitting, pinching, poking, punching, pushing : I barely touched him! -- Sleep : the holy grail -- When parents get angry! -- Troubleshooting : when the tools don't work.With a combination of storytelling, cartoons, and fly-on-the-wall discussions from their workshops, Faber and King provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the young kids in your life. What do you do with a little kid who... won't brush her teeth... screams in his car seat... pinches the baby... refuses to eat vegetables... throws books in the library... runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common challenges and conflicts, this book is an emergency first-aid manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders. This guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old. And, it will help little kids grow into self-reliant big kids who are cooperative and connected to their parents, teachers, siblings, and peers.
Subjects: Parenting.; Parent and child.; Interpersonal communication in children.; Interpersonal communication.;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 54
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The courage to be happy : discover the power of positive psychology and choose happiness every day / by Kishimi, Ichirō,1956-author.(CARDINAL)677619; Koga, Fumitake,1973-author.(CARDINAL)677697;
Is Adlerian Psychology a Religion? -- The Objective of Education Is Self-Reliance -- Respect Is Seeing People as They Are -- Have Concern for Other People's Concerns -- If We Had "the Same Kind of Heart and Life" -- Courage Is Contagious and Respect Is Contagious Too -- The Real Reason Why One "Can't Change" -- Your Now Decides the Past -- That Bad Person and Poor Me -- There's No Magic in Adlerian Psychology -- The Classroom Is a Democratic Nation -- Do Not Rebuke and Do Not Praise -- What Is the Goal of Problem Behavior? -- Hate Me! Abandon Me! -- If There Is Punishment, Does the Crime Go Away? -- Violence in the Name of Communication -- Getting Angry and Rebuking Are Synonymous -- One Can Choose One's Own Life -- Negate Praise-Based Development -- Reward Gives Rise to Competition -- The Disease of Community -- Life Begins from Incompleteness -- The Courage to Be Myself -- That Problem Behavior Is Directed at "You" -- Why a Person Wants to Become a Savior -- Education Is Friendship, Not Work -- All Joy Is Interpersonal Relationship Joy -- Do You Trust? Do You Have Confidence? -- Why Work Becomes a Life Task -- All Professions Are Honorable -- The Important Thing Is "What Use One Makes of That Equipment" -- How Many Close Friends Do You Have? -- First, Believe -- People Never Understand Each Other -- Life Is Made Up of Trials of "Nothing Days" -- Give, and It Shall Be Given Unto You -- 201 Love Is Not Something One "Falls" Into -- From an Art of Being Loved toward an Art of Loving -- Love Is a Task Accomplished by Two People -- Switch the Subject of Life -- Self-Reliance Is Breaking Away from "Me" -- To Whom Is That Love Directed? -- How Can One Get One's Parents' Love? -- People Are Afraid of Loving -- There Is No Destined One -- Love Is a Decision -- Re-Choose Your Lifestyle -- Keeping It Simple -- To the Friends Who Will Make a New Era -- Afterword."The Courage to be Disliked shares the powerful teachings of Alfred Adler, one of the giants of 19th-century psychology, through another illuminating dialogue between the philosopher and the young man. Three years after their first conversation, the young man finds himself disillusioned and disappointed, convinced Adler's teachings only work in theory, not in practice. But through further discussions between the philosopher and the young man, they deepen their own understandings of Adler's powerful teachings, and learn the tools needed to apply Adler's teachings to the chaos of everyday life. To be listened to on its own or as a companion to the best-selling first book, The Courage to Be Happy reveals a bold new way of thinking and living, empowering you to let go of the shackles of past trauma and the expectations of others, and to use this freedom to create the life you truly desire. Plainspoken yet profoundly moving, listening to The Courage to Be Happy will light a torch with the power to illuminate your life and brighten the world as we know it. Discover the courage to choose happiness."--Amazon.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Adler, Alfred, 1870-1937.; Adlerian psychology.; Happiness.; Self-actualization (Psychology);
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Prejudices / by Mencken, H. L.(Henry Louis),1880-1956.(CARDINAL)151465;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.[v. 1.] First, second, and third series -- [v. 2.] Fourth, fifth, and sixth series.First series. Criticism of criticism of criticism -- The late Mr. Wells -- Arnold Bennett -- The dean -- Professor Veblen -- The new poetry movement -- The heir of Mark Twain -- Hermann Sudermann -- George Ade -- The Butte Bashkirtseff -- Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes -- The genealogy of etiquette -- The American Magazine -- The Ulster Polonius -- The unheeded law-giver -- The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage -- George Jean Nathan -- Portrait of an immortal soul -- Jack London -- Among the avatars -- Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service. Second series. The National letters : Prophets and their visions ; The answering fact ; The Ashes of New England ; The ferment underground ; In the literary abattoir ; Underlying causes ; The lonesome artist ; The cultural background ; Under the campus pump ; The intolerable burden ; Epilogue -- Roosevelt : an autopsy -- The Sahara of the Bozart -- The Divine Afflatus -- Scientific examination of a popular virtue -- Exeunt Omnes -- The allied arts : On music-lovers ; Opera ; The music of to-morrow ; Tempo di Valse ; The Puritan as artist ; The human face ; The cerebral mime -- The cult of hope -- The dry millennium : The Holy War ; The lure of Babylon ; Cupid and well-water ; The triumph of idealism -- Appendix on a tender theme : The nature of love ; The incomparable buzzsaw ; Women as spectacles ; Woman and the artist ; Martyrs ; The burnt child ; The supreme comedy ; A hidden cause ; Bad workmanship. Third series. On being an American -- Huneker : a memory -- Footnote on criticism -- Das Kapital -- Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum : The life of man ; The anthropomorphic delusion ; Meditation on meditation ; Man and his soul ; Coda -- Star-spangled men -- The poet and his art -- Five men at random : Abraham Lincoln ; Paul Elmer More ; Madison Cawein ; Frank Harris ; Havelock Ellis -- The nature of liberty -- The novel -- The forward-looker -- Memorial service -- Education -- Types of men : The romantic ; The skeptic ; The believer ; The worker ; The physician ; The scientist ; The business man ; The king ; The average man ; The truth-seeker ; The pacifist ; The relative ; The friend -- The dismal science -- Matters of state : Le Contrat Social ; On minorities -- Reflections on the drama -- Advice to young men : To him that hath ; The venerable examined ; Duty ; Martyrs ; The disabled veteran ; Patriotism -- Suite Américaine : Aspiration ; Virtue ; Eminence -- Appendix: from My life as author and editor.Fourth series. The American tradition -- The husbandman -- High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks -- Justice under democracy -- Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning -- The politician -- From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments -- Totentanz -- Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world -- Essay in constructive criticism -- On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor -- Bugaboo -- On government -- Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist -- Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal -- The American novel -- People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of Mnemosyne. Fifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War -- Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters -- In memoriam : W.J.B. -- The hills of Zion -- Beethoven -- Rondo on an ancient theme -- Protestantism in the Republic -- From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff -- The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village -- Essay in pedagogy -- On living in Baltimore -- The last New Englander -- The nation -- Officers and gentlemen -- Golden age -- Edgar Saltus -- Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition -- Catechism. Sixth series. Journalism in America -- From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach! -- The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith -- Clarion call to poets -- Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English -- Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly -- Hymn to the truth -- The pedagogy of sex -- Metropolis -- Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics -- Life under bureaucracy -- In the rolling mills -- Ambrose Bierce -- The executive secretary -- Invitation to the dance -- Aubade -- Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino.These essays, first published between 1919 and 1927, ushered in a new cosmopolitanism and skepticism in twentieth-century America. Taking on all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of the American worldview that he saw, Mencken launched himself at a wide variety of targets with his usual humor and richness.
Subjects: Essays.; American essays; American literature; Literature;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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