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Child expert Jill Rigby reveals the dangers of the self-esteem parenting philosophy and offers an alternative approach that teaches children to respect both themselves and others.

After decades of experimenting with child-focused parenting, parents are beginning to realize that the result is often self-centered children who tend toward narcissism, selfishness, mediocrity, and dysfunction. Rigby espouses a new goal of parenting: gently bumping children off self-center and teaching them to be unselfish givers instead. Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World dares to revisit the values of compassion, forgiveness, thanksgiving, and unselfishness and insists that we can instill these values in our children.

With her encouraging approach, Rigby helps parents realize it's never too late to change their children's point of view and equip them to interact with kindness and respect in a world outside themselves. Teaching concepts, such as developing a passion for compassion, learning to give by forgiving, and filling every day with thanksgiving, Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World offers a new paradigm for parenting -- one that educates the heart and teaches moms and dads how to parent with a new end in mind..
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No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book provides a panoramic view of altruism throughout the animal kingdom--from self-sacrificing parasites to insects that subsume themselves in the superorganism of a colony to the human capacity for selflessness--even as it explains the evolutionary sense of such behavior.

Explaining how altruistic behavior can evolve by natural selection, this book finally gives credence to the idea of group selection that was originally proposed by Darwin but denounced as heretical in the 1960s. With their account of this controversy, Sober and Wilson offer a detailed case study of scientific change as well as an indisputable argument for group selection as a legitimate theory in evolutionary biology.

Unto Others also takes a novel evolutionary approach in explaining the ultimate psychological motives behind unselfish human behavior. Developing a theory of the proximate mechanisms that most likely evolved to motivate adaptive helping behavior, Sober and Wilson show how people and perhaps other species evolved the capacity to care for others as a goal in itself.

A truly interdisciplinary work that blends biology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, this book will permanently change not just our view of selfless behavior but also our understanding of many issues in evolutionary biology and the social sciences.

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Hypnotize yourself and others to recovery, to prosperity, and to a much better life! "Understand Hypnosis - What's True and What's Not; How to Do It and Do It Right; How to Use It to Have Super Confidence, Break from Bad Habits, Lose Weight, and Excel in Life!" Have you ever wanted something so bad that you willed it to happen? The promotion that you have always thought and fantasized about that you have gotten your thank you speech memorized - just in case? How about that new gadget that you have turned around in your mind that you can almost feel it in your hand? Or how about that person of your dreams whom you think about 24/7, with corresponding imaginary encounters? If any of your desires did came true, there's a big probability it did not happen by chance. It's not a miracle either. And it's not a one-time deal - it may happen again. By the sheer will power of your mind and your subconscious, you made it happen! The mind is the main control center of your whole body. Whatever it sets out unto itself will affect your whole system - inside and out. If you only know how to operate it and steer it to your command, the possibilities are endless! Experts - from mystics to scientists -agree that this main control center can be controlled and harnessed through meditation, visual suggestion and mind exercises done through HYPNOSIS. Dear Hypnosis Enthusiast, You thought you've done the right things. Headed for the right direction. Made the right moves. Still, things still are not turning out fine. For example, you have long wanted to shed off those excess pounds, to trim and shape your body according to your ideal weight. You tried it all - diet, exercise, medicine, and machine! Still the pounds stubbornly refused to leave, making you more miserable and making you want to eat more! Or another example: Since time immemorial, you have urged, encouraged, and supported a loved one in his goal to quit smoking. His lungs are almost ready to give up from being exposed to nicotine for years and years. The doctor says there is now a thin line between him and lung cancer. So you gather up all your efforts to help him get off the stick. You almost drained your finances just by trying the different methods, but to no avail. Even something as simple as getting your little brother to quit biting his nails did not go away after your endless coaxing, threats and nagging! So how can hypnosis solve all these problems? Hypnosis is a procedure that taps into your subconscious, putting you in a state of a trance that would bring you under extreme suggestibility. This means that through hypnosis, you can be "fed" suggestions about your personality, habits, behavior, and way of thinking that can influence your life immensely. Did you know that ... Psychologists use hypnosis to calm and soothe people who are in a state of trauma or are nervous. Medical practitioners use hypnosis as anesthesia - surgeons during surgery, dentists during tooth procedures, and doctors and midwives during childbirth. Post-surgery or post-operation, hypnosis is also used to prevent infection or unpleasant side effects. Mental health professionals use hypnosis as part of the therapy for patients with psychological conditions. Hypnosis is used to help both patient and doctor understand health and mental conditions, the causes and possible course of action to be taken. Hypnosis is used to curb problem habits such as smoking, eating disorders, or unpleasant behavior. Hypnosis is effective in dealing with psychosomatic problems or physical illness that can be rooted from a psychological condition. .
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When Bigfoot learns that his old friend might have to give up his dairy farm, Greedy Gut hatches a plan. The two traveled to the Enchanted Fountain, where, with one unselfish reason and a couple of twists and turns, they were able to obtain the magical water that may help the old farmer keep his dairy farm..
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In these times, we have an abundance of self-proclaimed experts, leaders and celebrities, all scrambling for the spotlight In the midst of it all, the biblical principle of servanthood is remarkably conspicuous by its absence. In these pages, Charles Swindoll re-introduces you to the gentle art of living unselfishly..
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It's love and terrorism in the time of cholera In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has killed billions and turned most of the rest into mindless, stumbling zombie-like invalids The few humans who had immunity now face the threat of a comet on a collision course with Earth. Settlers from the Moon colony were spared the disease, but face their own threats to survival: radiation-induced mental illness, a limited gene pool and shrinking resources. The Moon settlers have launched a last-ditch mission to Earth to salvage human DNA and other crucial materials ... before the comet strikes. The salvage crew find the biggest threat to the mission is neither the zombies or the comet, but insanity within their own ranks..
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