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Pioneering cancer psychologist Andrew Kneier has been therapist to thousands with cancer, having met with nearly 7,500 patients in one-on-one sessions, and has devoted his career to helping people master the many challenges that come with diagnosis. Finding Your Way Through Cancer is a distillation of their collective insights, questions, and concerns into ten free-standing essays that delve into the particular issues that patients (and their families) face.
The first of its kind, Careers for Your Cat is for the free-loading fat cat who, in these thin times, needs to get out of the house and start making down payments. This comprehensive, fully-illustrated feline career guide is geared exclusively to help streamline the kitty job search and help these feckless feline freeloaders reach their potential as fully contributing members of their households.
This second edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps readers plan early and well for the next stage of their lives while addressing the tough new realities of today’s economic environment. Using current research from the fields of economics, medicine, and psychology, the book delivers a comprehensive approach to life planning and provides readers with the tools they need to map out and pursue their ideal retirement.
For the 2.6 million students applying to college in this country, the admissions process is no laughing matter. With seemingly so much riding on getting into the best colleges in an increasingly competitive playing field, the pressures on students—and their parents—have risen to extremes. This smart new book changes all that.
Bringing levity and a hearty dose of humor to an otherwise stressful time, Don’t Stalk the Admissions Officer packs a punch line with essential information that students and parents need to conquer the college application process with their sanity and sense of humor intact.
Everybody knows one: an aspiring novelist or wannabe freelancer whose writing just isn’t up to snuff. Until now, struggling writers have had nowhere to turn for help in understanding what, exactly, makes some prose so terrible.
June Cassagrande’s It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences is the first book ever to target bad writing at its very root: the sentence. Combining her grammar and editing expertise with a keen eye for quality writing, Casagrande has created a resource guaranteed to transform some frustrated writers into bona fide success stories.
This recipe epitomizes what a great ceviche should be—crunchy, sweet, savory, tart, and rich all in one bite. Corvina, a type of sea bass, is the most widely used fish in South America for ceviche, and is very forgiving for the novice. Its firm, lean flesh holds up better to acid and is easy to either thinly slice or dice.
“Did Somebody Step on a Duck?” is a new collection of snappy and entertaining gas-passing anecdotes and historical tidbits from fart historian Jim Dawson. The anecdotes cover a broad range of pop culture, news, and history.
In honor of the publication of Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington and Skip Lineberg on April 13, we’re running a special Twitter contest.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946” at its branch museum for craft and decorative arts, the Renwick Gallery, from March 5 through Jan. 30, 2011.
David’s official iPhone app features books, recipes, photos & more! Fans can now stay connected with all the latest updates from David on their iPhone.
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