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How to be safe : protect yourself, your home, your family, and your business from crime / by Lipman, Ira A.;
Security in your home -- Doors and windows -- Household security -- Alarm systems -- Your telephone -- Service employees and invited strangers -- Lighting your home -- Outside security -- Vacations and special occasions -- Tips for apartment and condo dwellers -- Security away from home -- Car safety -- Security on the streets -- Security while shopping -- Security on the job -- Security when you travel -- Moving to another community -- Family security -- Family violence -- Security for infants and young children -- Security for older children and teenagers -- Cyber crime -- Community security -- Neighborhood crime prevention -- School and campus security -- Security in hospitals and nursing homes -- Senior victims of crime -- Consumer fraud, con artists, and con games -- Investment fraud -- Protection from violent crimes -- Rape, sexual harassment, and stalking -- Hate crimes, kidnapping, and murder -- Terrorism -- The criminal justice system.Explains how to protect one's home, family, and property and how to steer clear of computer and high-tech crime; investment and white-collar crime; and terrorism, bombs and bomb threats, in a book that also details safety measures for weddings, funerals,holidays, and emergency situations.
Subjects: Safety education.; Dwellings; Crime prevention.; Preparedness.; Self-protective behavior.;
© 2011., Reader's Digest Association,
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Healing from toxic relationships : 10 essential steps to recover from gaslighting, narcissism, and emotional abuse / by Sarkis, Stephanie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.How did we get here?: What a toxic relationship looks like and how to identify toxic people -- Block contact if you can: How to prevent unwanted contact from a toxic person, and what to do when you can't -- (For)get closure: Why it's hard to find resolution after a toxic relationship, and how to move on without it -- Forgive yourself: How to let go of anger and self-blame -- Establish boundaries: How to protect your interests and put yourself first -- Talk to a professional: How to find and work with a mental health care provider -- Practice self-care: How to make sure your needs are met and build care into your daily routine -- Reconnect: How to rebuild relationships with emotionally healthy people -- Grieve: How to work through loss so you can heal -- Volunteer: How to reclaim your purpose through altruism -- Prevent: How to avoid toxic situations and set yourself up for healthy relationships -- You will heal."Surviving and escaping a toxic or abusive relationship can often only be part of the struggle. Long after, survivors often struggle to heal; your self-esteem may be damaged, you may feel rage and betrayal, and you may punish and/or blame yourself. The author of Gaslighting and specialist in toxic behavior, narcissistic abuse, and personality disorders, Dr. Stephanie Sarkis has seen it all -- and she is here to help you understand how to move forward. In [this book], Dr. Sarkis extends compassion and knowledge to survivors, helping you understand the underpinnings of toxic behavior and how to find peace" -- Back cover.
Subjects: Interpersonal conflict.; Interpersonal relations.; Manipulative behavior.; Narcissism.; Psychological abuse.; Narcissism;
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The retirement challenge : what's wrong with America's system and a sensible way to fix it / by Baily, Martin Neil,author.; Harris, Benjamin H.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-269) and index.1. Overview -- Retirement: from whence it came -- Needed: a new paradigm for retirement -- The agenda for families, companies, and policymakers -- We can do this -- 2. Retirement: how are we doing? -- Defined-benefit pensions and defined contribution (401(k)-type) plans -- Assessing how well Americans are prepared for retirement -- The critical role of uncertainty -- Summing up -- 3. Retirement and economic growth -- The impact of slow economic growth on retirement policies and decisions -- The potential impact of retirement saving on economic growth -- Strong economic growth has been elusive -- Investment benefits both workers and the economy -- Funding and investment increase -- 4. Entitlements: the cornerstone of retirement -- Social security -- Medicare and Medicaid -- Trust fund woes -- Entitlements in the larger budget discussion -- Worrying, or not, about deficits and debt -- What's to come for entitlement programs -- 5. Working longer -- How do people decide when to retire? -- Are people making good retirement decisions? -- How much are adults working, and why? -- Do changing incentives help explain the labor force trends of older workers? -- Making the right retirement decisions -- 6. Why is saving so hard? -- Barriers to saving -- Unequal tax breaks for saving -- 7. Transitioning to retirement in a changing labor market -- Part-time work among older workers -- Paths to retirement -- Self-employment at older ages -- Can internet platforms help older people find work? -- Older workers must understand the changing labor market -- Can phased retirement improve health? -- 8. How annuities can mitigate uncertainty and improve retirement -- Annuity products -- Economists value annuities; consumers do not -- Behavioral biases against annuities -- Longevity annuities -- The tax implications -- 9. How are families planning for end-of-life care? -- Long-term care and the population that needs it -- Long-term care: its costs and financing -- Market failures and distortions -- Toward solutions -- 10. Reverse mortgages -- The reverse mortgage market -- The HECM program -- The reverse mortgage market over time -- Reverse mortgages: pros and cons -- 11. How to improve retirement accounts -- A retirement account vision -- Reforms to improve retirement accounts -- The need for action -- 12. Improving opportunities for older workers -- Financial incentives to work longer -- Changing attitudes toward retirement, older worker productivity -- Strengthen age discrimination protections -- Retrain older workers -- 13. Reforming private insurance markets -- Why reform private insurance markets? -- Reverse mortgages -- Annuities -- Long-term care -- 14. A vision for a new retirement paradigm -- The more important steps to improve retirement -- Why alternative proposals will not work -- Why our vision for retirement should prevail."America's retirement system has serious problems. While it works well for some retirees, millions of others don't have the sound retirement they have worked decades to secure. Roughly 40 percent of today's 4 trillion dollar federal budget is devoted to supporting retirees, which will grow to roughly half over the next decade -- imperiling the sustainability of the whole system. The system is out of date. It reflects the America of a bygone age -- an era in which company or union pensions provided middle-class families a decent standard of living in retirement. In America today, however, private pensions have mostly disappeared, Social Security is threatened to go insolvent, people are living longer, and health care costs continue to rise. Poorer retirees now must choose between buying enough to eat and their prescription drugs. In The Retirement Challenge, influential former White House economists Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris explore America's outdated retirement system and explain how improving retirement requires changes by families, employers, and policymakers alike. Households need to save more, get smarter about their finances, and trade part of their 401(k) balances for insurance products. Companies need to take a more active role in their workers' retirements. And lawmakers need to amend the tax code, Social Security, and a host of other programs. Despite today's wide political divide, policymakers from both parties can come together around changes that will promote a stable retirement. This book shows that these changes do not represent a radical overhaul. If families, businesses, and policymakers do their part, everyone -- current retirees and future generations -- can enjoy a much more secure and prosperous retirement." --
Subjects: Retirement; Retirement; Retirement;
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The twenty-four hour mind : the role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives / by Cartwright, Rosalind Dymond.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.In January of 1999, an otherwise nonviolent man under great stress at work brutally murdered his wife in their backyard. He then went back to bed, awakening only when police entered his home. He claimed to have no memory of the event because, while his body was awake at the time, his mind was not. He had been sleepwalking. In this book, the author, a sleep scientist, brings together decades of research into the bizarre sleep disorders known as parasomnias to propose a new theory of how the human mind works consistently throughout waking and sleeping hours. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated EEG and brain imaging technologies, we now know that our minds do not simply "turn off" during sleep. Rather, they continue to be active, and research has indicated that one of the primary purposes of sleep is to aid in regulating emotions and processing experiences that occur during preceding waking hours. As such, when sleep is neurologically or genetically impaired or just too short, the processes that good sleep facilitates, those that usually have a positive effect on our mood and performance, can short circuit, with negative results that occasionally reach tragic proportions. Examining the interactions between conscious and unconscious forms of thinking as they proceed throughout the cycles of sleeping, dreaming, and waking, the author demystifies the inner workings of the human mind that trigger sleep problems, how researchers are working to control them, and how they can apply what they learn to further our understanding of the brain. Along the way, she provides an account of the history of sleep research and the birth of sleep medicine that will initiate readers into this field of inquiry and the far reaching implications it will have on the future of neuroscience. This work offers a look at a relatively new area of study that will be of interest to those with and without sleep problems, as well as anyone captivated by the mysteries of the brain, and what sleep continues to teach us about the waking mind.In the beginning : the early days of sleep research -- Collecting dreams : watching the sleeping mind -- Short sleep and its consequences : insomnia -- Sleep and dreams in depression -- Sleepwalking into danger : murders without motives -- More NREM parasomnias : those who injure themselves, seek food or sex, explore, and protect -- Sleepwalking and state of mind in the courtroom -- Warnings from the land of nod : nightmares and REM behavior disorder -- Dreaming and the unconscious -- The role of dreams in the twenty-four hour mind : regulating emotion and updating the self -- Dreams selected for analysis from Scott Falater's dream log.
Subjects: Sleep; Sleep disorders.; Sleep Disorders.; Emotions.; Sleep.;
© 2010., Oxford University Press,
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White fragility : [electronic resource] : Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. by DiAngelo, Robin.;
In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Family & Relationships.; Self-Improvement.; Sociology.;
© 2018.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3716950 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive;
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Adult survivors of toxic family members : tools to maintain boundaries, deal with criticism, and heal from shame after ties have been cut / by Campbell, Sherrie,author.; Behary, Wendy T.,writer of foreward.;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: You have permission. Part 1. Making peace with your decision -- Understand that severing ties is self-protection -- Why you still hurt -- See boundaries as good to have -- The critical need to grieve -- The social void of broken family bonds -- Part 2. Your personal healing is now possible -- The core wounds of self-doubt and unworthiness -- How toxic shame develops -- Leave toxic shame behind -- Emotional loneliness and feelings of disconnection -- Emerge from feeling broken -- Moving toward empathy and self-love -- The path to your deepest, most lasting connection -- Part 3. Practical ways to handle the aftermath -- Family members can continue to be vindictive -- Handling secondary abuse: gifts and cards, financial abuse, and family illness and death -- The dirty work of using people, holidays, social media, and major events -- Protecting valuable relationships with nontoxic family members -- Conclusion: The liberation of self-reliance."For many people, cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and well-being. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist Sherrie Campbell offers readers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member and provides powerful tools to help them heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma"--
Subjects: Interpersonal conflict.; Families; Psychological abuse.; Manipulative behavior.; Adult child abuse victims.; Adult Survivors of Child Abuse;
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Nursing diagnosis : application to clinical practice / by Carpenito, Lynda Juall,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1092-1139) and index.
Subjects: Outlines.; Nursing diagnosis.; Nursing Diagnosis.; Patient Care Planning.;
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Saint Anything : a novel / by Dessen, Sarah.;
Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the lion's share of their parents' attention and -- lately -- concern. When Peyton's increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney is cast adrift, searching for her place in the family and the world. When everyone else is so worried about Peyton, is she the only one concerned about the victim of the accident? Enter the Chathams, a warm, chaotic family who run a pizza parlor, play bluegrass on weekends, and pitch in to care for their mother, who has multiple sclerosis. Here Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance. And here she meets Mac, gentle, watchful, and protective, who makes Sydney feel seen, really seen, for the first time.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Romance fiction.; Family problems; Brothers and sisters; Self-perception; Friendship; Family life; Dating (Social customs); Family crises; Prisoners' families; Dysfunctional families; Brothers and sisters; Self-perception in adolescence; Friendship in adolescence; Families; Dating (Social customs);
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The new public health / by Tulchinsky, Theodore H.; Varavikova, Elena,author.; Bickford, Joan D.,contributor.; Fielding, Jonathan E.,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The book provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for all masters' level students and practitioners-specifically for courses in MPH programs, community health and preventive medicine programs, community health education programs, community health nursing programs.
Subjects: Public Health; Delivery of Health Care; Public health.; Medical policy.;
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Same difference : how gender myths are hurting our relationships, our children, and our jobs / by Barnett, Rosalind C.; Rivers, Caryl.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index.The seduction of difference -- The caring trap -- That old black magic -- The mating game -- Talking about power -- Man (and woman) the hunter -- Do the math -- Leading questions -- As the twig is bent -- The self-esteem swan dive -- The road ahead.Publisher's description: From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. Generations have bought into the idea that women are uniquely primed to be "relational," men innately driven toward achievement-even when these "truths" are contradicted by what's happening in our daily lives. The time has come, argue the authors of this groundbreaking book, to liberate ourselves from biological determinism. Drawing on years of exhaustive research, Barnett and Rivers reveal how a toxic mix of junk science, pop psychology, and media hype has profoundly influenced our thinking and behavior, causing us to make poor decisions about how we choose our mates, raise our children, and manage our careers. It is power, not gender, that makes a difference; in fact, there are more differences among women (or men) with varying degrees of power than there are between women and men. In this vitally important and life-changing book, Barnett and Rivers sound a clarion call: a plea to end sexual stereotyping so that women and men, girls and boys, may realize their destinies as full human beings. Same Difference takes on the myths of "Mars and Venus": Myth...Men are genetically driven to seek out beautiful women. This may have been true in the stone age, but times change. Now, a significant number of men report that an attractive portfolio is even more alluring than a pretty face. Myth...Women want to marry wealthy men who can protect them and their children. In fact, a surprising majority of today's women put a higher price tag on empathy and nurturance. Myth...Girls face an inevitable plunge in self-esteem at adolescence. Recent research finds no evidence of this. Yet parents, teachers, and girls themselves lower their expectations and balk at challenges, because of this pervasive belief. Myth...Boys and girls learn differently. Teaching styles that emphasize different tactics for boys and girls are more often rooted in stereotypes than research or hard science, and can lead to a poorer-quality education for girls. Still, public funds are squandered on special curricula aimed at "female learning styles." Myth...Men and women speak "different languages"-they "Just Don't Understand" each other. Wrong. Women talk "male" in the boardroom, and men easily master "motherese." Myth...Female leadership is kinder and gentler. Not so. Position is the key to behavior: female managers are not more democratic than males, though many of us might like to think so.
Subjects: Sex differences (Psychology); Sex role.;
© c2004., Basic Books,
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