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Hardback. Condition: Fair. Offers scientific evidence that motherhood gives women unexpected mental advantages. Filled with stories of multi-tasking mums at home and at work, this book encourages all of us to cast aside conventional thinking and discover the positive ways in which having children changes mothers' brains for the better.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Offers scientific evidence that motherhood gives women unexpected mental advantages. Filled with stories of multi-tasking mums at home and at work, this book encourages all of us to cast aside conventional thinking and discover the positive ways in which having children changes mothers' brains for the better.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Offers scientific evidence that motherhood gives women unexpected mental advantages. Filled with stories of multi-tasking mums at home and at work, this book encourages all of us to cast aside conventional thinking and discover the positive ways in which having children changes mothers' brains for the better.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. "An absorbing, sharply observed memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews A hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son-a true story sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewildering behavior. Popular literature is filled with the stories of self-sacrificing mothers bravely tending to their challenging children. Katherine Ellison offers a different kind of tale. Shortly after Ellison, an award-winning investigative reporter, and her twelve-year-old son, Buzz, were both diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, she found herself making such a hash of parenting that the two of them faced three alternatives: he'd go to boarding school; she'd go AWOL; or they'd make it their full-time job to work out their problems together. They decided to search for a solution while Ellison investigated what genuine relief, if any, might be found in the confusing array of goods sold by the modern mental health industry. The number of diagnoses for childhood attention and behavior issues is exploding, leaving parents and educators on a confusing chase to find the best kind of help for each child. Buzz, a page-turner of a memoir, brings much relief. It is immensely engaging, laugh-out-loud funny, and honest-and packed with helpful insights. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just such a question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a tangible threat to our own lives and our hopes for our children. This text brings together Gretchen Daily, an ecologist, with Katherine Ellison, a journalist, to offer an engaging and informative look at a new new economy - a system which recognizes the economic value of natural systems and the potential profist in protecting them. to a diverse group of people who are pioneering new approaches to conservation. We meet Adam Davis, an American business executive who dreams of establishing a market for buying and selling ecosystem service units; John Walmsley, a former maths professor in Australia who has found a way to play the stock market and protest native species at the same time; and Dan Janzen, a biologist working in Cost Rica who devised a controversial plan to sell a conservation area's natural waste-disposal services to a local orange juice producer. Readers also visit the Catskill Mountains, where the city of New York purchased undeveloped land instead of building an expensive new water treatment facility; and King Couny, Washington, where county executive Ron Sims has dedicated himself to finding ways of making the market move to protect the county's remaining open space. business and politics that is involved in establishing these new approaches and examine what will be needed to create successful models and lasting institutions for conservation.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just such a question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a tangible threat to our own lives and our hopes for our children. This text brings together Gretchen Daily, an ecologist, with Katherine Ellison, a journalist, to offer an engaging and informative look at a new new economy - a system which recognizes the economic value of natural systems and the potential profist in protecting them. to a diverse group of people who are pioneering new approaches to conservation. We meet Adam Davis, an American business executive who dreams of establishing a market for buying and selling ecosystem service units; John Walmsley, a former maths professor in Australia who has found a way to play the stock market and protest native species at the same time; and Dan Janzen, a biologist working in Cost Rica who devised a controversial plan to sell a conservation area's natural waste-disposal services to a local orange juice producer. Readers also visit the Catskill Mountains, where the city of New York purchased undeveloped land instead of building an expensive new water treatment facility; and King Couny, Washington, where county executive Ron Sims has dedicated himself to finding ways of making the market move to protect the county's remaining open space. business and politics that is involved in establishing these new approaches and examine what will be needed to create successful models and lasting institutions for conservation.…

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paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . Rucker, Georgia (illustrator).

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