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41) Peaces
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Riverhead Books
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2021.
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The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
42) The believers
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"[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit."-New York Times
Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal with another tour-de-force on the meaning of faith, belief, and trust: The Believers. Tragic and comic, witty and intense, The Believers is the story of a dysfunctional...
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Les statistiques sont alarmantes : 67 % des couples mariés après 1990 divorceront. La plupart le feront la 4e ou 5e année de leurs mariage ; les autres attendront le départ de leurs enfants. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que de moins en moins de couples acceptent de se résigner et de se faire la guerre pendant un demi-siècle. Ce qui ne laisse qu'un maigre 20 % des couples qui, la plupart du temps, sont heureux de vivre ensemble.
Pourtant, selon...
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Ce que tout homme devrait savoir sur les femmes pour être heureux en amour
Dans son livre Qui sont ces couples heureux? le psychologue Yvon Dallaire trace un portrait réaliste et complet du couple heureux. Dans Qui sont ces femmes heureux? il dit ce que toute femme devrait savoir, faire et cesser de faire pour trouver l'intimité, la communication et l'engagement qu'elle désire vivre en couple. Dans ce nouveu livre, Qui sont ces hommes heureux?...
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Le couple apparaît encore aujourd'hui comme le meilleur style de vie et la meilleure garantie de bonheur. Certains sont heureux le temps de la séduction et de la lune de miel, soit de quelques mois à deux ou trois ans, d'autres savent le rester à plus long terme parce qu'ils ont surmonté les crises et les conflits inévitables de la vie à deux. Pourquoi certains couples réussissent-ils là o la majorité échoue? Les psychologues ont observé,...
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Profound and inspiring, Unconditional Love: What Every Woman and Man Desires in a Relationship by psychotherapist and advocate Dr. Dwayne L. Buckingham highlights challenges women and men face in their attempt to give and receive unconditional love in their relationships. The marriage institution is in grave danger as individuals abandon their marital commitment when faced with adversity and hardship. This profound manuscript educates readers about...
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Si, malgré l'amour qui les lie, homme et femme ont de la difficulté à dialoguer, c'est que la femme envisage la communication en termes de liens intimes et d'expression émotive, alors que l'homme communique pour atteindre des objectifs précis et transmettre de l'information. Les hommes font des discours, les femmes échangent.
Pour améliorer la relation, l'auteur présente aux femmes dix règles efficaces qu'elles peuvent utiliser pour mieux...
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Este libro, desde una mirada sistémico-construccionista y a través de narrativas y voces de personas, muestra un recorrido por situaciones de crisis que afectaron sus relaciones familiares y por la construcción de procesos generativos de resignificación, transformación y nuevos contextos. Dos momentos que llevaron, por un lado, a prácticas de reacomodamientos en la organización familiar y, por el otro, a cambiar las percepciones sobre el proceso...
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Dr. Dwayne L. Buckingham has advanced scientific knowledge by conducting the first-ever research study that explores how Black women's childhood experiences impact their perceptions of achieving marital satisfaction. His ground-breaking research takes a look into the lives of seven married Black women who shared their heartfelt childhood and adult experiences. In this first edition of Can Black Women Achieve Marital Satisfaction; you will learn how...
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Esta obra, dirigida a psiclogos y psicoterapeutas, desarrolla en un lenguaje accesible y desde la ptica sistmica, el uso de cuentos e historias en contextos teraputicos para el trabajo con nios y sus familias. El uso de historias en la terapia es trascendental, ya que proporciona un contexto de significacin para abordar un problema especfico, donde la imaginacin, la participacin de los escuchas, la complicidad y los rituales, se convierten en un poderoso...
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Il n'y a jamais d'éclair dans un ciel bleu
Le féminisme nous a ouvert les yeux sur la violence conjugale. Il a contribué et continue de contribuer à l'évolution positive de notre société. Certaines féministes, par contre, n'ont ouvert qu'un seul oeil sur cette violence: celle faite aux femmes. Elles ont délibérément fermé l'autre oeil, celui qui devrait être ouvert sur la violence faite aux hommes.
La raison en est très simple: elles...
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Yo también Yo más Las parejas se llevan mal. El porcentaje de divorcios sobrepasa ampliamente el 50%, principalmente si se consideran las parejas que viven en unión libre. ¿Por qué? Porque el hombre no conoce a la mujer y porque la mujer no conoce al hombre. También, porque los dos imaginan que son semejantes y que, por eso mismo, tienen las mismas expectativas, las mismas prioridades en la vida y creen que el otro puede comprenderlos. Este...
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While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and...
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Dans son livre Qui sont ces couples heureux ?, le psychologue Yvon Dallaire trace un portrait réaliste et complet du couple heureux. Dans Qui sont ces femmes heureuses ?, l'auteur nous dit ce que toute femme devrait savoir, faire et cesser de faire pour trouver l'intimité, la communication et l'engagement qu'elle désire vivre en couple. Il démontre que l'homme est différent de la femme et qu'accepter son fonctionnement et agir en conséquence...
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When was the first moment you knew your spouse got you? Whether it was your third date or wedding day, there was a moment that you believed your spouse knew and understood you better than any other person on the planet. You felt loved, appreciated and respected in a way no other person had ever made you feel. On your wedding day, "I do" meant "you get me" for you both. Then life set in. Replaced by busy careers, financial stressors and growing children,...
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Qualified, yet Single is a screening guide is for women who are tired of wasting their time on single good men who struggle with commitment. It encourages women to look beyond a man's surface and to realize that behave every behavior there is an emotion. Dr. Buckingham provides single women with the subtle red flags to look for in a "good" man prior to jumping in a relationship. This straightforward and informative book motivates women to think more...
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The ability to communicate through the use of words is one of the major skills that distinguishes
humans from other creatures. Having a formal language which can be spoken and written has
allowed people to create emotional and practical bonds between themselves and others which
can transcend not only time and distance but physical and cultural barriers as well. With this
unique ability to communicate through language, humans have been able to...
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The field of mediation currently lacks a unifying theoretical foundation. This book attempts to remedy that by presenting one such comprehensive theoretical model. Family systems theory is based on the work of Murray Bowen, who was among the initial proponents of family therapy. Bowen family systems theory describes human relationships and human functioning using a systemic lens that conceptualizes human behavior through an intricate web of emotional...
59) All the living
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One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and must find her way in a combative, erotically-charged relationship with a grieving, taciturn man. A budding friendship with a handsome and dynamic young preacher further complicates her growing sense of dissatisfaction....
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Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was the crew was supposed to be studying before they were...
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