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This updated volume provides fourteen core thinking skills that increase students’ cognitive capacity and shows educators how to “bridge” these skills to the home and community.

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Challenging the stereotypes that surround the condition that is called “autism”, this book goes beyond the outsider’s view of the symptoms by presenting the many different faces of autism and autism-related conditions from the insider’s perspective. Based on her own experiences of autism, the author looks at the misinterpretations and assumptions that have grown up around the condition, and offers her own experience of the daily problems and frustrations that the autistic person faces, and an overview of the current techniques, therapies and treatments for autism. She illustrates what autism means in her life, and shows how the experience of having to learn in different ways to others is a positive experience that opens up new ways of thinking.

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As a leading cognitive behavior therapist, Dr. Barry Lubetkin has heard every excuse there is for staying in a bad relationship: “The time isn’t right.” “We have to stay together for the children’s sake.” “It’s too late to start another relationship.” Created out of fear and guilt, these rationalizations can lead to depression, phobias, and psychosomatic illnesses. But the real problem– your desire to get out of the bad relationship– is barely recognized.

In “Bailing Out” you’ll discover whether you should get out of your relationship, and if so how to make the leap. “Bailing Out” is filled with daily logs, checklists, exercises, and more, including:

Step-by-step survival techniques for weathering your breakup

Compelling case studies from people who have been there

A do-it-yourself “Fear Buster Chart” to help you pinpoint those things that are standing in your way– and show you how to counteract them with healthy actions

Relaxation techniques to help you cope with the anxiety of those first few weeks of sleeping alone, a leaner bank account, single parenthood, the fear of AIDS, and the high cost of divorce

But perhaps the most important message in “Bailing Out” is that you can free yourself from a bad relationship– and happily, healthfully, and confidently survive.

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Young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) can often find the step into adulthood and independence more difficult than their neurotypical peers, particularly where employment is concerned. The authors show, however, that with the right guidance and a positive attitude in schools, young people with ASDs can be every bit as happy and successful as those who are not on the spectrum. The book describes a programme developed over a number of years by teachers at a school for young people with ASDs, which successfully enabled autistic pupils to achieve their full potential. The authors explain in detail the challenges faced by the young people at the school, and show how, encouraged by a culture of optimism and hopefulness, the programme developed their confidence and skills, with the result that many of them are now in employment. The book also provides an in-depth exploration of a multitude of styles and techniques for building relationships. Concluding with a reflection on leadership and organisational culture, the authors demonstrate that if the approach is adopted by an entire school and not just a handful of teachers, it really can work. This inspiring and innovative book will be a must for educators at every level, psychologists, academics, and anybody else interested in a positive educational approach that will enable young people with ASDs to get the most out of life.

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Mind Out of Matter aims to transform the way we think about consciousness and the physical world. Unlike many contemporary volumes, it develops a robust and philosophically satisfying account of the mind/body relationship without doing violence to fundamental physics. It expunges popular but ludicrous assumptions about the `in principle’ capabilities of cognizers and, with the help of tools from mathematics and scientific fields, supplants flawed notions of representation, function, and mental state with objective and physically grounded alternatives. It debunks quantum theories of consciousness, constructs a simple zombie recipe, and evaluates recent research on chaotic analogue networks. This book is indispensable for readers in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, and for mathematicians applying complexity theory or information theory to biological cognition.
Audience: General academic/university libraries, plus university departmental libraries in philosophy, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science. Researchers and specialists in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, complexity theory, and information theory. Researchers in the telecommunications industry.

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We all want a life filled with prosperity, good health, and happiness. A Beginner’s Guide to the Art of Manifesting presents explanations as to why we are closed off from what we want in this life. It offers an opportunity to clear away the negative influences from our pasts and those in our present. It opens the door for a future impregnated with the seeds of hope and limitless possibilities for peace of mind and success. The techniques outlined in this book are clear, concise and offer a wealth of information passed down from the great spiritual teachers throughout time. The affirmations and meditations are uplifting yet peaceful, thorough yet easy to follow.

Most self-help books of this nature describe how to attract that with which you want but, rarely if ever explain why you think, feel and believe negatively in the first place.

One must clear away the excess of the past to make room for a future filled with promise and contentment.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Art of Manifesting is a tool to help direct you to the path that leads to the universal laws of attraction and ultimately the life you were meant to live.

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Albert Ellis, the renowned creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy—Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)—tells all in this candid autobiography. Ellis recounts the memorable episodes of his life from his earliest years to the present; discusses how he coped with emotional problems at different stages of life; describes his love life; and subjects his own self-description to a ruthlessly honest critique.

The heart of Ellis’s book is his analysis of the psychological leitmotifs that have appeared again and again throughout his life. He describes the aim of this autobiography as follows:

“As far as I can, I shall present my bad and good, stupid and intelligent, weak and strong points. Why? Because, following H. G. Wells’s recommendation, I want to go as all—out as I can. I want to acknowledge my idiocies—and use REBT to feel sorry about but unashamed of them. I want to make the point—again a central tenet of REBT—that all humans are fabulously fallible—including, of course, me. We have no real choice about this, but we can unconditionally accept ourselves—our so-called essence or being—with our fallibility. That will momentously help us, probably encourage us to acquire unconditional self-acceptance (USA) and possibly inspire other people to give it to themselves, too.”

Describing his emotional makeup as a paradoxical combination of high-frustration tolerance and low-frustration tolerance, Ellis says that the former quality allowed him to become a well-known and often-acclaimed achiever. But sometimes low-frustration tolerance got the better of him, and then he became his own worst saboteur, preventing himself from doing what he really wanted. Some “alluring and gruesome examples” of his low-frustration tolerance are provided.

A tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-nonsense talk, All Out! is the definitive summation of the life and work of one of psychology’s most successful thinkers and practitioners.

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