Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough : The 10 Things That Stress Teen Girls Out and How to Cope with Them

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With compassion and insight, an expert counselor shows teen girls how to find the solutions to stress and anxiety that lie within

Parents, schoolwork, boyfriends, college . . .it's enough to make any teenage girl wish she could just snap her fingers and make it all go away. But with the click of her heels, she'll soon discover that the means to dealing with stress were always within her power. Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough helps teenage girls find the wisdom within to overcome stress in their lives.

A serious self-help guide for teenage girls that is neither preachy nor condescending, Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough uses real-life anecdotes to help readers triumph over difficulties. Common teen anxieties include:

Body image
Dating
Divorce
Depression
Insomnia
Friends and bullies
Substance abuse
Gay and lesbian issues

The book also includes short introductions of each subject, expert quotes, statistics, key points, reading lists, Web pages, and toll-free numbers.

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Teen Books.......2007-02-24

great book, my teenager seems to be carrying it with her with interest and is actually reading it and interested in it.......with self help books you never know but this one seemed to talk to her

Mad Mother.......2006-12-15

This book tries too hard to be PC(Politically Correct) in my opinion. The lesbian chapter was over the top. Having sex was too easily accepted as what you do when you want to. My 14 year old is fairly mature but is definitely not ready for this book. I returned it.

Excellent Book.......2005-09-12

This is by far the best self-help book for girls that I have ever come across. It addresses issues--some very difficult--that pre-teen and teenage girls are faced with today. I thought that every chapter was sensitive and well-written. My 14 year old daughter thought the chapters on body image, anxiety and insomnia made her feel better about herself and more in control of her life. I thought that the last chapter, on lesbian teens, was appropriate and helpful as it showed that most girls are not gay, and that tolerance for others who are different is important. My 12 year old daughter found this reassurring as she was beginning to worry that she was a lesbian because of something she read in a magazine. This book is a must-read for every adolescent girl and her parents.

Good book but deals with some tough issues.......2005-09-06

My 14 year old daughter enjoyed most of the book, however the last chapter about what to do if you like someone of the same sex was a little "gross" for her. She isn't sexually active and found some of the issue a little too explective.

Excellent True to Life Book. Would highly recommend.......2003-12-06

I read this book two weeks ago and it has really changed my attitude about myself. It was extremelly helpful and I would recommend it to anyone. This book will definetley help you with all of life's little problems.

How to Develop Your Sense of Humor: An 8-Step Training Program for Learning to Use Humor to Cope with Stress

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How to Develop Your Sense of Humor: An 8-Step Training Program for Learning to Use Humor to Cope with Stress
Paul E. McGhee
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Small Medium at Large: How to Develop a Powerful Verbal Sense of Humor

ASIN: 0840397348

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Work/stress Connection
Veninga
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0316807478

How to Cope When the Going Gets Tough (Overcoming Common Problems)

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How to Cope When the Going Gets Tough (Overcoming Common Problems)
Windy Dryden , and Jack Gordon
Manufacturer: Sheldon Press
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ASIN: 0859697010

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However well you can cope with the everyday challenges of life, everyone has their crisis points. For example, many people find themselves knocked back by criticism and rejection, and do not react effectively. When you reach one of these points, you need extra help and advice to get you through. Windy Dryden and Jack Gordon use their common-sense techniques to help you identify and overcome your personal vulnerability areas, so nothing can hold you back.

You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope With a World of Bewildering Change

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You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope With a World of Bewildering Change
Laura Archera Huxley , and Aldous (FWD) Huxley
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756782112

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A Courageous and Powerful Offering

How to Cope With Suburban Stress
David Galef
Manufacturer: Permanent Press (NY)
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A Courageous and Powerful Offering.......2007-05-01

The devil has come to Fairchester, an upper-income enclave of Americana, where crime consists of a bat-wielding malefactor who goes about knocking post office boxes off-kilter. The devil takes the guise of Ted Sacks, a pedophile who visits on-line chat rooms to swap notes with similarly inclined monsters and rigs up his bathroom as a personal pleasure palace...should he ever actually work up the nerve to lure a child into his lair. At the same time Ted is embarking on his flights of sexual fantasy, Michael Eisler is trying to cope with a different kind of suburban stress, the impending failure of his marriage and the toll that is taking on his young son, Alex. Mr. Galef expertly interweaves the two storylines--we know a collision is imminent and that Alex will be involved in some way. The tension ratchets up higher and higher and the author refuses to avert his eyes from what must happen, without exploiting (soiling) the reader. Give Mr. Galef credit for a book of remarkable courage and integrity. It's strong stuff, especially for parents, but a novel of skill, poise, frankness and maturity.

Surviving Your Boss: How to Cope With Office Politics and Get on With Your Job

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Surviving Your Boss: How to Cope With Office Politics and Get on With Your Job
Ann D. Clark , and Patt Perkins
Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
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Anxiety and Depression (How to Cope Successfully With....)

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Anxiety and Depression (How to Cope Successfully With....)
Beth MacEoin
Manufacturer: Wellhouse Publishing Ltd
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How to Avoid Burnout (From the Company that Buids Carreers, A Guide to Help You Cope With Life's Stress and Strain)

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How to Avoid Burnout (From the Company that Buids Carreers, A Guide to Help You Cope With Life's Stress and Strain)

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Binding: Spiral-bound
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How to avoid burnout: A guide to help you cope with life's stress and strain

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How to avoid burnout: A guide to help you cope with life's stress and strain
Charles Mallory
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The Seven Days : The Emergence of Lee
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Somewhat Muddled.

7 Days Misses the Mark

A well-written account of the Seven Days Battles

An easy read with tough judgements and sharp insights

The Seven Days : The Emergence of Lee
Clifford Dowdey
Manufacturer: Broadfoot Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0916107728

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Somewhat Muddled........2004-01-03

Dowdey is a Southerner writing about the South's Civil War view of God, Robert E. Lee, so this effort is biased from the get go. But it is a reasonable summation of the final days of the Peninsula Campaign when George B. McClellan frittered away an early, life threatening blow to the Confederacy. So close to the Confederate Capital his troops could see Richmond's church spires, McClellan retreats despite winning the majority of the battles fought during these seven days. Lee, thrust into command after the wounding of Joe Johnston, has no strategic alternative. He has no choice but to attack. This he does with gusto.

In the face of these consistent attacks which decimate the South's army, McClelland, believing himself outnumbered, retreats and Lee's only course of action, attack, bluffs the Union commander into submission. Today most people recognize that Lee had no alternative. Equally important, most observers, North and South, are aghast at McClelland's horrific performance which he would repeat against the same antagonist at Antietam.

There is no doubt that Robert E. Lee rose to the occasion and did his very best under the most difficult circumstances. But before we deify Lee, it must be remembered that he all but destroyed his army facing a general who simply would not fight. This is an overview of those battles.

7 Days Misses the Mark.......2001-11-21

This is a serviceable account of the 1862 Peninsular campaign. Despite all the huge amont of literature on the Civil War (a lot of it redundant), there is surprisingly little on this pivotal aspect of the conflict. Mr. Dowdey writes in the talkative style of the old school historian. The supposed strength of this book is its attention to geographical detail. At times I found that the authors attention to roads and trails did not match the attention that should have been payed to the battles described. Like most Civil War historians Dowdey does not get into much detail about the tactics employed by either side. We never learn in what formations (or lack thereof) any of the troops were fighting in. The battles themselves are frequently described in rather muddled fashion. Dowdey frequently digresses in his descriptions, which further confuses the narrative flow. As a Southener Dowdey pays most attention to Southern activities. Thus we get all sorts of mini-bios on Confederate generals, but little on their Union counterparts. The chronology of events is also a bit confused. What Dowdey does well is provide a good overall description of the campaign, and he provides good insight into MacClellan's vague plans for his capture of Richmond. Dowdey is a bit hard on Joe Johnston's style of command before Lee takes over. Also the book points out well the complete lack of staff work on the part of Civil War armies in this period. European observers oftern laughed at the slip-shod attempts to provide this esstential service. None of the so-called great Civil War commanders ever appreciated this vital aspect of command. Hence the reason why armies often blundered into each other, and why the battles of the 7 Days lacked any decisive results. Dowdey's work is perhaps a bit dated, but is well written, and worth a casual read.

A well-written account of the Seven Days Battles.......2001-07-21

Clifford Dowdey's work, "The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee," is a well-written, detailed and informative record of the series of clashes between Union and Confederate forces known as the Seven Days Battles that occurred near the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in late June 1862.

Dowdey describes, in rich detail, the initial Union planning and preparations for the amphibious landing on the York Peninsula (between the James and York Rivers). He details the Union Army of the Potomac's successful landing on the York Peninsula in May 1862 and its methodical advance up the peninsula towards Richmond led by its commanding officer, Major General George B. McClellan. The Confederate forces, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston, are seen by Dowdey as ill-led as they continually retreated in successive fashion towards the outskirts of the Confederate capital and prepared themselves for a siege. Finally, with the Union Army divided north and south of the Chickahominy River, Dowdey chronicles Johnston's decision to turn on the Union forces at Seven Pines on May 31, only to fight an inconclusive battle. Johnston himself was wounded in the late hours of the battle, and his replacement was General Robert E. Lee, until that moment the military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Upon assuming command, Lee immediately devised a series of offensive strikes against the still-divided Union forces, but Dowdey argues that Lee's ultimate failure to crush the Union Army was due to a combination of many factors. Poor Confederate staff planning was in clear evidence from the beginning to the end of the Seven Days Battles. General Lee failed time and again to assume direct operational control of ever-changing battle situations where his subordinates failed to drive forward against the enemy (for example, "Stonewall" Jackson's failure to push forward his drive on the Confederate northern and left flank at the Battle of Mechaniscville). Lee was also hampered by the uneven quality of his subordinate commanders, particularly the deaf and old Theophilus Holmes, the inept Benjamin Huger and the mentally exhausted Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (who suffered, according to Dowdey, from stress fatigue). Last, but certainly not least, the surprisingly well disciplined, hard-fighting and well-led (at the brigade, divisional and corps levels) Union troops frustrated Lee's strategic and tactical battle plans at virtually every turn.

Dowdey's work provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of all of the major battles: Seven Pines, Fair Oaks Station, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station and Malvern Hill. In addition, he also aids the reader by providing a series of detailed maps and descriptions of the complex web of major and minor roads and country lanes that were fundamental to the movement of the armies - Union and Confederate - during the Seven Days Battles. I found, however, one very annoying aspect about the work. I strongly disagreed with Dowdey's one-sided and dismissive view of Confederate General Joseph Johnston as a defeatist general who possessed no redeeming personal or military abilities. Johnston was clearly one of the most effective of all the Confederate generals, one whose primary concern was the care and welfare of the men under his command. He never took unnecessary risks in battle, for he knew that the Confederacy had a limited pool of available manpower with which to fight the Union.

Despite this one point of disagreement, I found Dowdey's work to be an excellent study of the Seven Days Battles. His insistence on "visual history" - that a historian must visit the battlefield that he is studying in order to more effectively understand the movements of the opposing armies, thereby aiding him in writing a work that the reader will follow clearly - is very much in evidence in this book.

An easy read with tough judgements and sharp insights.......1998-06-06

A wonderful break from the usual, with Dowdey displaying an absolute mastery of the material. McClellan (heroically) dominates the early parts, with Johnston and Magruder as fools and Lincoln and Stanton as MacBeth's witches. The author's appreciation of the North's and South's politics is outstanding and adds a livid dimension to this oft-told tale. His single failure is in the matter of comparative (numerical) strengths. Don't miss it.

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Seven Days Emergence of Robert E Lee
Clifford Dowdey
Manufacturer: Random House~trade
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517253674

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Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee
Clifford Dowdy
Manufacturer: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
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ASIN: B000WST65U

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The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee
Clifford Dowdey
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The Seven Days: the Emergence of Lee
Clifford, And Krick, Robert K (Introduction By) Dowdey
Manufacturer: Fairfax Press
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The Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee

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The Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee

Manufacturer: The Fairfax Press
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The seven days: The emergence of Robert E. Lee
Clifford Dowdey
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What Every Person Should Know About War
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Publisher's Weekly review gets it wrong

The Real ...

Reading between the lines...

the driest, most factual short book

One of the Best War Books Ever Put on Paper

What Every Person Should Know About War
Chris Hedges
Manufacturer: Free Press
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ASIN: 0743255127

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Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself.

Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies.

• What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war?
• What does it feel like to get shot?
• What do artillery shells do to you?
• What is the most painful way to get wounded?
• Will I be afraid?
• What could happen to me in a nuclear attack?
• What does it feel like to kill someone?
• Can I withstand torture?
• What are the long-term consequences of combat stress?
• What will happen to my body after I die?

This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

Customer Reviews:

Publisher's Weekly review gets it wrong.......2007-05-11

The Publishers Weekly review should be reviewed--and deleted for inaccuracy:
"He fails to note that depictions of gore, mayhem, psychological trauma and flashbacks have become staples of Hollywood's treatment of war even as such experiences have become less common in America's high-tech, casualty-averse military. Americans, soldiers and civilians both, could use a clear-eyed analysis of modern warfare, but this limited treatment doesn't yet provide one."
"Casualty-averse military??" This is simply false as well as disrespectful to the thousands of war dead and injured. The reviewer does a great disservice to Hedges book in making such a moronic claim. As the first reviewer mentions, Hedges tells the truth about war without glossing over or glorifying the effects of war on human beings.
Amazon, please do something about the PW review!

The Real ..........2007-03-09

The Q & A format leaves little room for doubt ... every parent with a teen-age son should read ... digest ... and act accordingly

Reading between the lines..........2007-02-24

After all of the controversy that has dogged him since his previous book, "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning", war journalist Chris Hedges simply and cleverly lets the statistics speak for themselves. You be the judge. This should be required reading for anyone considering a career in the military. At the very least, you will know exactly what you are getting yourself into.

the driest, most factual short book.......2007-01-05

Its all perfectly correct, impeccably researched, reads like a government report. Contrast it with the similar section in "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell

One of the Best War Books Ever Put on Paper.......2006-04-29

The book, What Every Person Should Know About War, is an extremely good book pertaining to war. The title speaks for itself because this book includes EVERYTHING about war. It helps the reader become more educated about areas that they already know about and it makes them become more knowledgable areas they are not familiar with. This book covers issues and circumstances that many people never even think about. Although some of the issues discussed in this book are extremely graphic it is important to be informed about the realities of war. THis book does a grea job at that.

The question-and-answer format is a very good way to write this book. It allows the reader to browse through while looking for specific issues. It also allows the reader to read it straight through while keeping an organized format in their head. Hedges does a great job at answering the questions with accurate information. Most of his answers are based off of medical and psychological studies.

This book can be read by all ages but specifically teenagers and adults. It is extremely easy reading but also very enlightening and fun. Children need to read with caution because of some of the horrifying topics. At the same time it is important for everyone to be knowledgable about war and this book accomplishes that. I recommend this book to everyone to read for fun, action packed knowledge. It opened my eyes to many things and I know it would do the same for you.

Light and truth;: What every person should know about the world's war

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Light and truth;: What every person should know about the world's war
Stephen Binder
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The Gossamer Green
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The Gossamer Green
Jean G. Howard
Manufacturer: Creative Arts Book Company
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THE GOSSAMER GREEN
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THE GOSSAMER GREEN
Jean G. Howard
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RAZLV6

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The Gossamer Green
Jean G. Howard
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