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41) Winning with ADHD: a playbook for teens & young adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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"If you're a teen with ADHD, you care about academic and social success just as much as your peers do, but you may also experience difficulties keeping up in school and maintaining good relationships with friends and family. In addition, you probably find it challenging to stay organized, articulate your struggles to others, and cope with overwhelming pressure--especially as college approaches. This workbook [offers] skills for addressing the challenges...
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"Books on ADHD have tended to define the disorder, offer checklists, and suggest general coping strategies. Some of them appear to give readers the false hope that they can become like the 95.6 percent of adults who don't have the diagnosis. Living Well with ADHD provides the reader with a new way of conceptualizing the neurological differences found in persons with ADHD, and the effects of those differences, in a way that points the reader in a direction...
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"Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow--yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, M.D., was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD, each requiring a different treatment. Now, in this all-new, revised edition, Dr. Amen again employs the latest medical advances...
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Women with AD/HD tormented by the daily chores and decisions needed to survive in a world of linear thinking will find solace in this self-help guide. Offering a collection of practical solutions to seemingly simple daily problems, this book will help to relieve the guilt and anxiety so many women have when they feel they don't measure up to the norms of today's society. These proven gems of wisdom, submitted by hundreds of women with AD/HD from all...
48) Button pusher
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"Tyler's brain is different. He has a hard time paying attention. He acts out in goofy, unpredictable, immature, and sometimes dangerous ways. Nobody, including Tyler himself, understands why he does these things until his doctor diagnoses him with ADHD. But the label is only the start of Tyler's journey. Between managing his medications, controlling his impulses, and dealing with his parents' fighting, Tyler's preteen years are full of challenges....
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"You have an unlimited capacity to have fun, meet amazing people, and feel truly awake every single day. But do you? When you're living on autopilot (and most people are--80 percent of the time), those opportunities pass you by. Snap out of it! Any one of the fifty-four playful strategies in Wake Up! will bring your brain back to life."--
51) The soulmate
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"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
53) ADHD
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Introduces students to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, discussing how ADHD is diagnosed, what its symptoms are, and how even if they have it they can still be successful in life like thinkers and leaders like Albert Einstein and John F. Kennedy.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow: psychology, creativity, and optimal experience, a clear and captivating presentations of Csikszentmihalyi's theory of Flow. For more than 30 years, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced CHICK-sent-me-high-ee) has studied states of "optimal experience"--those times when we report feelings of deep concetration and fulfillment--when we transcend our ordinary consciousness, and become so completely involved that we lose our...
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"There are many ways of paying attention-and the Open Focus Method uses them as a powerful tool to help us shift our focus, act effectively, and improve the quality of our lives. Drs. Les and Susan Fehmi, pioneers in biofeedback and developers of the Open Focus method, teach you how being aware of your attention styles-and using them optimally-can significantly reduce your stress levels, calm emotional storms, relieve pain, improve interpersonal relationships,...
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"A fearless guide to awakening your mind using simple visual language What do Einstein, Edison, Richard Feynman, Henry Ford, and JFK have in common? Like virtually all heavy-hitting thinkers, they looked beyond just words and numbers to get intellectual and creative insights. They actively applied a deceptively simple tool to think both smarter and faster: the doodle. And so can the rest of us-zero artistic talent required. Visual thinking expert...
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