Your heart is racing, your muscles stiffen, and you can't think clearly, you are so mad you want to scream and throw something. Exploding in anger is not the best way to deal with a problem, so how do you stop yourself from doing something you'll regret later? This guide provides the answers for your readers. It uses real-life examples and quotations to illustrate the causes of anger and its biological, emotional, and social effects. It also provides research-based information on how to handle it in a healthy way. Readers will take a quiz to find out if they anger easily and learn how to improve the situation.
Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders. This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically. In fact, new homes in over 40 percent of planned developments are gated n the West, the South, and southeastern parts of the United States. Opposition to this phenomenon is growing too. In the small and relatively homogenous town of Worcester, Massachusetts, a band of college students from Brown University and the University of Chicago picketed the Wexford Village in November of 1998 waving placards that read "Gates Divide." These students are symbolic of a much larger wave of citizens asking questions about the need for and the social values of gates that divide one portion of a community from another.
A reversible book covering issues common to both boys and girls provides helpful tips and advice to teens in dealing with feelings of anger and potentially explosive scenarios in a positive, constructive, and healthy manner.
The Gallup Youth Survey has found that more than 80 percent of high school seniors have tried alcohol and that roughly a quarter of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 say it is very easy for them to get alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a contributor to the three leading causes of death for teens and young adults: automobile crashes, homicides, and suicides. This volume explores several issues facing young people, including binge drinking and cross-addiction.
Teens have commonly shared experiences with jealousy. Everyone feels jealous or envious at one time or another, but if you constantly feel like the world is unfair to you, you may need some help keeping these negative emotions in check. This guidebook uses real-life examples and quotations to illustrate the causes and effects of irrational jealousy and envy and provides strategies and tips on how to overcome them.
What would it really be like to meet an alternate version of yourself - another you who had made different choices and lived a completely different life as a result? That's the question facing Jessica Jones, as what seemed like a routine investigation instead has her encountering other incarnations of herself from across the Multiverse! Can Jessica get along with herself? Will she want to kill her other selves? And will seeing the roads she could have traveled drive her into a self-destructive spiral? This is what happens when you meet…the Variants! Jessica might just be losing her mind…and, worse still, as she is backed into an impossible corner, she is forced to make a sacrifice play that could cost her a member of her own family! Collecting THE VARIANTS (2022) #1-5.
You want something your best friend has... but you can't have it. Suddenly, you find yourself absolutely burning with jealousy. How can you stop this from turning to anger? What can you do to make sure it doesn't ruin a good friendship? This fun and reversible book offers direct and easy-to-follow strategies that can help you take the sting out of jealousy. Then you can flip the book over and see how your guy or girl friends deal with it!
Besides taking an emotional toll on you, loneliness can take a physical toll on your body as well. Studies show that lonely people have higher blood pressure, which can cause heart disease, than people who don't feel lonely. If you aren't a loner by choice, how can you cope? Using real-life examples and quotations, this book discusses the biological, emotional, and social effects of loneliness and provides research-based information on the best ways to overcome it. Readers take a quiz to find out if shyness is keeping them from making friends, and read tips on how to be more social.
A reversible book covering issues common to both boys and girls provides helpful tips and advice to teens in dealing with feelings of loneliness in a positive, constructive, and healthy manner.
Most teens are familiar with the quirky and sometimes edgy animated shows found on television. But who are the creators of the characters and worlds that populate this animated realm? The biography series Contemporary Cartoon Creators introduces readers to the cartoonists, to the people and events that influenced their lives, and to the achievements that have brought them both acclaim and criticism. All books in the series include timelines, fully documented quotes, and full-color photographs. Book jacket.
JESSICA JONES FACE À DIFFÉRENTES VERSIONS D'ELLE-MÊME ! Jessica Jones croyait en avoir fini avec son passé, ses démons et la caféine. Mais, lorsque Matt Murdock lui demande de l'aide dans une enquête impliquant l'Homme Pourpre, elle sait qu'elle va devoir se confronter à son ancien tortionnaire. C'est alors que le Multivers s'en mêle et que des doubles de l'héroïne surgissent de réalités parallèles. À qui Jessica pourrat-elle se fier ? À travers une intrigue pluridimensionnelle, Gail Simone (Birds of Prey) nous livre un récit intimiste, magnifiè par les illustrations de Phil Noto (Uncanny X-Force). [CET ALBUM CONTIENT LES ÉPISODES THE VARIANTS (2022) 1 À 5.]
Stories of fire-breathing dragons and the brave men who have fought them have entertained people for centuries. The sheer number of these stories and their persistence throughout time lead many to wonder: Do dragons exist?
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.