Helpless

Author : Marianne Marsh
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007281145
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpless written by Marianne Marsh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcely tolerated by her teachers. 'Helpless' is Marianne's heartbreaking story.

Author : Barbara Gowdy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082883
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpless written by Barbara Gowdy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting and suspenseful novel of abduction and obsessive love, Gowdy draws on her trademark empathy to create a portrait of love at its most consuming and ambiguous to uncover the volatile point at which desire gives way to the unthinkable.

Author : Daniel Palmer
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 078602268X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpless written by Daniel Palmer and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmer, son of bestselling author Michael Palmer, delivers the follow-up to his acclaimed debut "Delirious"--the story of an award-winning coach who's ordered world is suspended by shocking accusations of murder.

Author : Christopher Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195044676
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learned Helplessness written by Christopher Peterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When experience with uncontrollable events gives rise to the expectation that events in the future will also elude control, disruptions in motivation, emotion, and learning may ensue. "Learned helplessness" refers to the problems that arise in the wake of uncontrollability. First described in the 1960s among laboratory animals, learned helplessness has since been applied to a variety of human problems entailing inappropriate passivity and demoralization. While learned helplessness is best known as an explanation of depression, studies with both people and animals have mapped out the cognitive and biological aspects. The present volume, written by some of the most widely recognized leaders in the field, summarizes and integrates the theory, research, and application of learned helplessness. Each line of work is evaluated critically in terms of what is and is not known, and future directions are sketched. More generally, psychiatrists and psychologists in various specialties will be interested in the book's argument that a theory emphasizing personal control is of particular interest in the here and now, as individuality and control are such salient cultural topics.

Author : Steve Salerno
Publisher : Crown Forum
ISBN 13 : 1400054109
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sham written by Steve Salerno and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the “empowering” message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help’s “Recovery” movement. SHAM also reveals: • How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over—without ever helping them • The inside story on the most notorious gurus—from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray • How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, “executive coaches,” and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale • How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything—from drug abuse to “sex addiction” to shoplifting—a dysfunction or disease • How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good • How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools • How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done. Also available as an eBook

Author : Barbara Gowdy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007291574
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Bone written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Bone, ostensibly about an elephant gifted with visionary powers, is a highly imaginative novel about an infinitely gentle species fighting to survive in a mad world of game poachers and environmental disaster.

Author : Abe J. Unruh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Helpless Poles written by Abe J. Unruh and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosie Lewis
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0007541821
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpless: A True Short Story written by Rosie Lewis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic short story from experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis.

Author : Judy Garber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Helplessness written by Judy Garber and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christie Blatchford
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385670400
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpless written by Christie Blatchford and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal actions of the occupiers included throwing a vehicle over an overpass, the burning down of a hydro transformer which caused a three-day blackout, the torching of a bridge and the hijacking of a police vehicle. During the very worst period, ordinary residents living near the site had to pass through native barricades, show native-issued "passports", and were occasionally threatened with body searches and routinely subjected to threats. Much of this lawless conduct occurred under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched: They too had been intimidated. Arrests, where they were made, weren't made contemporaneously, but weeks or monthlater. The result was to embolden the occupiers and render non-native citizens vulnerable and afraid. Eighteen months after the occupation began, a home builder named Sam Gualtieri, working on the house he was giving his daughter as a wedding present, was attacked by protesters and beaten so badly he will never fully recover from his injuries. The occupation is now in its fifth year. Throughout, Christie Blatchford has been observing, interviewing, and investigating with the tenacity that has made her both the doyen of Canadian crime reporters and a social commentator beloved for her uncompromising sense of right and wrong. In Helpless she tells the full story for the first time - a story that no part of the press or media in Canada has been prepared to tackle with the unflinching objectivity that Christie Blatchford displays on every page. This is a book whose many revelations, never before reported, will shock and appall. But the last word should go to the author: "This book is not about aboriginal land claims. The book is not about the wholesale removal of seven generations of indigenous youngsters from their reserves and families - this was by dint of federal government policy - or the abuse dished out to many of them at the residential schools into which they were arbitrarily placed or the devastating effects that haunt so many today. This book is not about the dubious merits of the reserve system which may better serve those who wish to see native people fail than those who want desperately for them to succeed. I do not in any way make light of these issues, and they are one way or another in the background of everything that occurred in Caledonia. "What Helpless is about is the failure of government to govern and to protect all its citizens equally."