Cat Made Me Buy It!

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116 full-color photographs of cats appearing in scores of different ads and promotions created over the last century make this the purrfect book for cat lovers and collectors of cat memorabilia! 116 full-color photographs.

Customer Reviews:

delightful.......2005-07-27

Lots of color reproductions of cats on labels and in
advertising from the nineteenth and early twentieth
century, with discussions of what happened to the
companies behind each image.

This book would be a delight for any cat-enthused
graphical-arts type person.

What's it doing out of print?

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Black Cat Made Me Buy It
Alice Muncaster
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0517568918
Release Date: 1988-12-10

Book Description

From the authors of The Cat Made Me Buy It! and The Cat Sold It! The black cat is a versatile graphic icon, popping up often in folk art and advertising. Here are examples from throughout American history. 127 full-color photographs.

Fenton Glass Cats & Dogs (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

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Recommend this book

Fenton Glass Cats & Dogs (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Tara Coe-mcritchie
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Warman's Fenton Glass: Identification and Price Guide (Warman's Fenton Glass: Identification & Price Guide)
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Fenton Special Orders, 1980-present: Qvc, Mary Walrath, Martha Stewart, Cracker Barrel, Jc Penney, National Fenton Glass Society And Fenton Art Glass Club of America (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
The Big Book of Fenton Glass

ASIN: 0764314890

Book Description

This beautifully illustrated book features over 500 different cats and dogs made by the Fenton Art Glass Company in Williamstown, West Virginia, from 1933 to the present. The book includes many styles that were made in the regular line, sold through the company's gift shop, made for other companies, special orders, and creations that marked special occasions. A wide variety of special techniques were used in their production, including hand painting, iridized finishes, satin finishes, and other treatments. Variations among the mold styles of each cat and dog are explained. Information for this book was gathered from original Fenton catalogs and correspondence with the Fenton Art Glass Company, information from companies that ordered from Fenton, and individual collectors. This book is an essential reference for cat and dog lovers and all Fenton glass collectors.

Customer Reviews:

Recommend this book.......2007-01-04

Very good descriptions and photos of cats and dogs through publication date 2002. The book also includes the Chessie Boxes.

The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove: The Complete Collection of 78rpm Artwork from the Legendary Record Changer Magazine

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The Cat is Back
Beyond Fantastic

The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove: The Complete Collection of 78rpm Artwork from the Legendary Record Changer Magazine
Gene Deitch
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1560975261

Book Description

A visual feast of swingin' cartoons for jazz lovers. On the long road to becoming an Oscar-winning animation director, Gene Deitch became an intense jazz fan. At the age of 21, he discovered The Record Changer, a jazz collector's magazine filled with fanatical, scholarly, and purist essays about jazz as well as listings of hard-to-find jazz albums. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a cat (as in "cool cat," derived from the West African word "Katta," a human), so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature for Record Changer titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture at the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951 along with "The Cat." Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of jazz and became a visual paean to the joy of collecting and appreciating jazz.

In the 1940s, jazz was a vaguely disreputable musical genre and Deitch's visual embodiments of the music acquired a cult; to this day, his original Cat cartoons are bought and sold on the internet.

Fantagraphics Books is proud to collect all of Deitch's Record Changer covers and "Cat" cartoons in one coffee-table, landscape-format art book, reproducing his covers in the same gorgeous colors in which they first appeared as well as the black-and-white Cat cartoons and a commentary by Deitch—who later went on to become an award-wining animator as the Creative Director of CBS/Terrytoons, where he created Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog for The Captain Kangaroo Show, as well as many other animated features, including a legendary stint on MGM's "Tom and Jerry" series. Fully illustrated throughout; 90 pages color.

Customer Reviews:

The Cat is Back.......2003-06-19

Great 1940s comics that capture the world of the jazz fanatic circa 1945-1950. Deitch's artwork is clever, original, somewhere between Virgil Partch and Harvey Kurtzman -- far above the amateurish efforts one associates with fanzines. Anyone familiar with the loonier aspects of record collecting will find much amusement in these cartoons (The Cat berates one guy searching a huge pile of records with, "That's the 'A' master which is relatively common!"). Deitch also drew some interesting covers, reproduced here in full color. Anyone into vintage comics, records, and/or jazz will dig this.

The packaging is a bit overkill. The width of the book is huge, but there is a lot of white space on the inside pages. A smaller size would not have detracted from the artwork, and would have made this a more affordable book. Also, nobody seems to have proofread the copy, as there are quite a few typos.

Beyond Fantastic.......2003-06-06

This book gets seven stars. At first, I think I thought it had something to do with Mad Magazine, like Spy Vs. Spy. What I found was a goldmine. Rarely do I see books dealing with geeking out on something. Gene Deitch clearly loves Jazz Music. This book documents a dope artist, blossoming into greatness through an interest in an outsider sound. His honest comments on obsesive geekdom, as well as race relations, are appreciated. A super cool gift, as well as a beautiful, beautiful book. the OilCan highly recommends.

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Dr. Seuss Storytime
Dr. Seuss
Manufacturer: Random House, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description

Includes the following Stories: McElligo't Pool; the Zax; The Lorax; and Scrambled Eggs Super

Twelve Old-Time Cats Bookmarks (Small-Format Bookmarks)

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VERY CUTE made a good gift

Twelve Old-Time Cats Bookmarks (Small-Format Bookmarks)
Carol Belanger Grafton
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486403963

Book Description

Winsome felines nestled among nosegays, wearing turn-of-the-century costumes, and just posing prettily. Perfect for marking your place in any book.

Customer Reviews:

VERY CUTE made a good gift.......2007-08-22

These are very cute. My only gripe is that they are only printed on ONE SIDE, and I like my bookmarks to be printed on both sides.
But, they are very cute, and I gave these as a gift.

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The PURRfect Book for Cat Lovers!

Parlor Cats: A Victorian Celebration
Cynthia Hart , John Grossman , and Josephine Banks
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1563051184

Book Description

Victoriana and cats-it's a natural marriage. Celebrating the era when mousers, tabbies, and toms were swept off the farm and cherished with a passion unrivaled since ancient Egypt, Parlor Cats is a dazzling collaboration from the creators of A Victorian Scrapbook, Forget-Me-Nots, Joy to the World: A Victorian Book of Love
Originally adorning antique greeting cards and cut-out dolls, matchboxes and advertising trade cards, stationery and calendars, the endearing faces of Victorian cats live anew in Cynthia Hart's distinctive collages. Mixing paper ephemera from John Grossman's museum-quality Collection of Antique Images with fresh flowers, collectibles, lace and brocade, each lushly layered composition evokes a time that personified the cat as the epitome of domestic virtue.

Generously quoting from poetry, nursing rhymes, Godey's Lady's Book, and popular authors, Josephine Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats. It's no accident that the cat is America's most popular pet-here is how it all got started. A selection of the Literary Guild. 126,000 copies in print.

Customer Reviews:

The PURRfect Book for Cat Lovers!.......2000-03-15

This has to be the most eye appealing book for anyone who loves cats, especially if the cat lover is also into antiques. The antique "scrap" images are so numerous and varied that everytime you look at this book you find things you missed the time before. The design is very decorative and colorful and is a beautiful coffee table book. I recommend it highly!

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Cat Sold It
Alice Muncaster
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Cat Made Me Buy It!
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ASIN: 0517563037
Release Date: 1987-05-29

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A companion piece to the popular The Cat Made Me Buy It!, bringing us from Victorian times to the present--from the Dubonnet cat to Morris the Cat. 110 full-color illustrations.

Cat With Piano Tuna and other Feline Nonsense

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Cat With Piano Tuna and other Feline Nonsense
Simon Drew
Manufacturer: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
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Cc: Comp. Cat U.s. Coins (Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Us Coins)

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Cc: Comp. Cat U.s. Coins
From beginners to novice

Cc: Comp. Cat U.s. Coins (Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Us Coins)
Coin World
Manufacturer: Collins
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ASIN: 038079859X

Book Description

COMPREHENSIVEAUTHORITATIVE ACCESSIBLE
NO OTHER U.S. COIN GUIDE IS AS COMPLETE

Coin World is the most respected and widely read weekly in the entire coin collecting field; even the U. S. Government relies on their database for accurate historical information. This revised 2nd edition now includes newly discovered rarities--coins not catalogued anywhere else! It features up-to-date values, including stunning all-time high auction records, and new, sharper, actual-sized photographs of more than 800 coins, for easy and accurate identification.

THE COMPREHENSIVE CATALOG AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S. COINS

CATALOGS IN A SINGLE, EASY-TO-USE VOLUME:

All regular issues of the United States Mint--thousands of collectible varieties
A complete listing of pattern and experimental pieces
Colonial and Revolutionary Era coins and tokens--relics of the Founding Fathers
Pioneer gold coins from the Gold Rush of 1830-1861
Coins of the Philippines under U.S. rule during World War II
An appendix of Treasury and Mint officials
Current grading and pricing information, including auction prices
And much, much more

Customer Reviews:

Cc: Comp. Cat U.s. Coins.......2003-09-05

Excellent reference work, particularly in the area of patterns.

From beginners to novice.......2000-04-02

The Comprehensive Catalog to U.S. coins is the most informative literature to enable the beginner expand his/her knowledge of U.S. coins but also enrich the novice by broadening his/her expertise in other U.S. coins. This piece of work is very helpful for all stages of individuals seeking knowledge of early to modern type coins. I always refer to this catalog of coins when I encounter an early type piece I'm not familiar with. This book not only expands but also tantilize my mind by the many types of U.S. coins depicted. Not a book to loan out if you wish to have it returned. I've purchased my second copy and will a third when it's updated. Thanks for a excellent book.

The Veneering Book (A Fine Woodworking Book)
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The Veneering Book (A Fine Woodworking Book)
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Cabinet making for beginners: Tools, joints, cabinet construction, veneering and inlaying, drawing, cutting lists, etc., timber, fittings, typical designs (Drake home craftsman's book)
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Cabinet making for beginners: Tools, joints, cabinet construction, veneering and inlaying, drawing, cutting lists, etc., timber, fittings, typical designs (Drake home craftsman's book)
Charles Harold Hayward
Manufacturer: Drake Publishers Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0877497036

The complete book of woodwork: Tools : workshop practice : joints : construction : polishing : carving : veneering : turning : machines : designs for home and garden (Woodworker handbooks)
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The complete book of woodwork: Tools : workshop practice : joints : construction : polishing : carving : veneering : turning : machines : designs for home and garden (Woodworker handbooks)
Charles Harold Hayward
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Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking; Two Volumes in One, Unabridged; Book 1: Joinery, Book 2: Shaping, Veneering, Finishing
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The Veneering Book
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The Veneering Book
David S. Square
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Making Vegetables Grow
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Making Vegetables Grow
Thalassa Cruso
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Making Vegetables Grow

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Making vegetables grow
Thalassa Cruso
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The Smart Love Parent: The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline
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its about time

The Smart Love Parent: The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline
Martha Heineman Pieper , and William J. Pieper
Manufacturer: Innova Publishing
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ASIN: 0974937304

Book Description

Should you feed your baby whenever she wants or put her on a schedule? Do you impose consequences on children who don't do their homework or clean up their room, or do you help them with chores and homework? Should you respond to the difficult adolescent with tender love or tough love?

Parents are faced every day with a multitude of decisions, and they worry about making the right choices. The Smart Love Parent offers a patient and caring approach to parenting created and tested by the husband-and-wife team of Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper and Dr. William J. Pieper. The Piepers offer a new understanding of the entire sweep of child development, allowing you to view the process of growing up through your child's eyes. Their breakthrough method avoids the extremes of permissiveness and of the old reward-and-punishment style of parenting that turns parents into disciplinarians. By offering a relaxed and realistic timetable for your child's development, they identify some previously unrecognized developmental milestones and show you how to help your child reach them through guiding, not punishing.

The Smart Love Parent helps parents cultivate a child's inner happiness, which is the best means of ensuring your child will grow up well behaved, responsible, self-confident, and able to reach his or her fullest potential.

Customer Reviews:

its about time.......2005-09-17

This book is just scratching the surface of the most comprehensive understanding of human development-intrapsychic humanism, which Smart Love is based on. The authors have an unparalleled depth in regard to human philosophy and psychology of the mind. I have taught children for 19 years and have three of my own; this book offers the most sound advice in creating happy human beings.

Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person

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Smart Love is "good management"
Smart Love; at last
Science plus good practical advice makes for real parenting help
The ONLY Scientific Approach to Parenting!
Parenting in a Vacuum

Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person
Martha Heinemann Pieper
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Amazon.com

Parents and experts tend to be divided into two embittered camps: strong discipline and permissiveness. How about another choice? Now comes Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person, a book exploring Martha Heineman Pieper and William J. Pieper's alternative approach to raising responsible, smart, loving children. The authors are longtime experts in child and family psychology. She's a psychotherapist who works with both children and adults, and he's a child psychologist and psychoanalyst. Together, they've raised five children while professionally researching the roots and keys to children's inner happiness. Their "Smart Love" approach to child rearing will provide a breath of relief for parents uncomfortable with formal methods of discipline, but deeply concerned with providing their kids with strong, safe limits.

Focusing in turn on babies, toddlers, young children, older children, adolescents, and kids with special circumstances (including adoption and learning disabilities), the Piepers argue effectively that "tough love" doesn't work, and that parents will get more cooperation if they focus on their child's inner happiness and "avoid unnecessary confrontations with children about behavior for which they will eventually assume responsibility." While this approach may initially feel radical to some, the Piepers' clear explanations and force of research and practice will win converts to their gentle, strong approach. The Piepers write, "Time-outs, restrictions, punishments, and other forms of discipline are based on the assumption that being too nice to children who are 'misbehaving' will encourage and reward bad behavior." Instead of discipline (or permissiveness), the authors recommend that parents parent by "loving regulation," an alternative approach to out-of-control behavior that stops the behavior immediately but doesn't deprive the child of parental warmth or admiration. Smart Love will help parents raise confident, resourceful, and compassionate children. --Ericka Lutz

Book Description

No parent wants to be a disciplinarian, but most fear that the only alternative is permissiveness. Not so, says Drs. Martha and William Pieper, the husband-wife team, parents of five themselves, who have written this revolutionary new volume based on years on groundbreaking research.

Customer Reviews:

Smart Love is "good management".......2007-09-13

I live in Chicago, where the Pfeiffers have written a column for the local parenting magazine for years. Their comments made such sense to me that I was eager to read their book....and I'm glad I did. My only quibble with this book and this approach is that there is a lot of psychoanalytic discussion which may not always 'reach" the non mental health professional.

I'm in business and I've managed teams. A lot of "Smart Love" to me seems like good management:

. Good managers know that you have happier teams when you focus on the positive..that for every criticsm, there should be 5 positive comments.

. Good managers know that responding to people is the way to foster the best communication with them. A good manager, e.g., would never put an employee in isolation ("time out") for bad behavior. A good manager would look for ways to increase the chances of that employee's success, nurture that person's strengths, offer support and praise.

For those of us who grew up and were managed through fear and punishment, this may be radical. But having been managed by "Tough Love" types and being managed by Good Communicators/Positive Supporters...I know that my work just flowed for the Communicators, and I did everything grudgingly for the Tough Love types.

Incidentally, the Pfeiffers have a Parenting Center (I have no affiliation), which offers hourly by phone parent coaching. They also have a very helpful website. For information on both please see: http://www.smartloveparent.org

Smart Love; at last.......2007-08-05

Excellent book. How refreshing to hear, from profesionals, what we all know in our hearts but struggle to trust in a society that values punishment and feeds its economy by exploiting human suffering rather than creating solutions to it.Smart Love is the theory I've been waiting for. Congratulations to the authors for getting it out. When it arrived I coudln't put it down untill I'd finnished it. Now I'm reading it again with my partner and already it's making a difference to our daughter who has struggled with anxiety and insecurity. Smart Love points out our mistakes without giving us a hard time for them. Highly recomended.

Science plus good practical advice makes for real parenting help.......2005-09-28

This is the first parenting book I have read (and I read them by the bushel-full) that offers a coherent, scientifically based view of childhood and the parenting relationship and then develops practical, doable parenting strategies based on the findings. Most parenting advice is so ad hoc that contradictions abound. The Piepers have an empirically based view of the unique nature of the baby's mind and how parents need to respond in ways that account for that immaturity. The same holds true of children all the way through adolescence. Take a look - you will see how different and truly helpful this book is!

The ONLY Scientific Approach to Parenting!.......2005-07-25

I am a clinical psychologist with expertise in developmental psychology. I have been impressed with the Piepers' work, both Smart Love and Addicted to Unhappiness, because it is the only approach to child development and self-help that actually draws from current empirical research. For example, Regina Sullivan's work showing that rat pups learn to love odors that are paired with electric shocks supports the Piepers' argument that we are all born to love the care we get. Meltzoff's work on imitation in newborns as well as the cutting edge research on "Motor Neurons" supports the Piepers' discovery that all babies learn to treat themselves as they are treated, which is why conventional discipline is harmful. There is an enormous amount of research showing that babies (and other primates) who are treated with consistent kindness are less vulnerable to stress and better learners. I could go on and on if space alllowed to illustrate that current thinking in child development solidly supports the Piepers' work. In addition, they make clear that they base their work on their own clinical work, which is also both scientific and widely published. The assertion that the Piepers' work is not empirically based is either motivated by ill-will or is very ill-infomred. Take a look yourself to see how well-reasoned their arguments are.

Parenting in a Vacuum.......2005-07-25

First of all, where (in the actual written text) is the empirical support for the developmental achievement of "unshakeable inner well-being" or "inner happiness?" Second, how does this "inner happiness" lead to the developmental achievement of helping a child be part of a family and care about the needs of others? Third, on what basis, besides their own clinical-parenting observations, do these authors claim that by providing focused caregiving attention to a child, the child will naturally develop the inner confidence to care about the world around them or others? While some reviewers (Berry) assert that this book is based on scientific research, the actual text does not cite any biological or psychological research or connect itself to any other larger body of work. the authors may have valid points but i am merely reporting on the book that i have read which is lacking any substancial reference to current child development literature. Although Berry cites motives of ill will or misinformation, prehaps a more generous account of my review is simply that I disagree that its a useful parenting book. There is a growing body of literature in the field of ethnopedriatrics that suggest that culture plays a large role in parenting and that within cultures there are multiple valid parenting approaches. In the United States, there is a tendency to pay attention to the cognitive and emotional development of a child. I do not agree that the authors have developed a better way to facilitate emotional development in children through focus caregetting pleasure during a critical period of time. I am simply unpersuaded and the book lacks sufficent evidence to make the claim. Other authors have done a better job: Children learn to play attention to the needs and desires of others by watching what adults do (with other adults) and by guiding their children to respect the needs of others--See Alfie Kohn's Unconditional Parenting, Chapter 10. Focused caregiving attention is not enough (as there are many cultures in which the parents remain available to children but do not overly focus on the children) -- See Meredith Small's Our Babies Ourselves and The Continuum Concept. Without much evidence to support efficacy, these authors seem to espouse an approach to parenting that teaches a child that their caregetting needs take priority over the needs of others (other siblings, parents, pets). In a family, everyone has needs to be cared for and it is ongoing challenge (and joy) to create a family in which everyone feels they can --1)get their needs met and 2)contribute to each others wellbeing. In this book, the parenting relationship takes place in a vacuum and the child is the center of the universe--not realistic, not good for the parent, and definitely not good for the child.

Smart Love - The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline That Will Make You A Better Parent & Your Child A Better Person

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Smart Love - The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline That Will Make You A Better Parent & Your Child A Better Person
Martha Heineman, Ph.D.; Pieper, William J., M.D. Pieper
Manufacturer: Harvard Common Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IXV18E

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Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person
Martha H. Ph.D; Pieper, William J. Pieper
Manufacturer: Harvard Common Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NY4AM2

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