Family & Relationships : Interpersonal Relationships

''My roommate leaves her clothes all over the place!''. ''I loaned my friend fifty bucks—I don't know when he'll pay me back.''. ''That's the third night in a row that Tom's friend has crashed on our couch. Someone needs to say something. . . . ''. You're on your own—and it's great! Except when problems crop up: roommate hassles, dating dilemmas, work stuff, social stuff, and just stuff . Finally, expert help is here. In How Do You Work This Life Thing? Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, shows how to navigate the pleasures and perils of independent life, offering advice on everything from getting along with roommate(s) and dating to getting the job you want. Highlights include Prospective Roommate Checklist . . . Romance, Dating, and Sex at Your Place . . . The Get-It-Together Party Prep List . . . What to Wear When . . . Cell Tips: What to Do Where . . . Top Ten Table Manners . . . Dating 101 . . . Tipping 101 . . . Landing the Perfect Job. Lizzie's down-to-earth style and tales from personal experience, coupled with sound advice in the Emily Post tradition, makes this a real-life guide you can trust. more...

Price: $15.95

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. more...

Price: $15.95

Interpersonal Relationships considers friendship and more intimate relationships including theories of why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. Social and cultural variations are discussed as well as the effects of relationships on our well-being and happiness. The book is tailor-made for the student new to higher-level study. With its helpful textbook features provided to assist in examination and learning techniques, it should interest all introductory psychology and sociology students, as well as those training for the caring services, such as nurses. more...

Price: $8.25

Pia Mellody shares her wisdom on what it takes to sustain true intimacy and trusting love. This resource helps diagnose the causes of faulty relationships and provides the tools for readers to heal themselves, enabling them to establish and maintain joyous intimacy. more...

Price: $12.95

This groundbreaking guide is for every woman who is ready to create a stronger, healthier, more satisfying partnership. Unlike other relationship books, which focus on changing a mate, Loving an Imperfect Man provides a road map to a totally different path - a path whose focus is solely on you...your personal growth, your healing, your getting in touch with your inner worth. more...

Price: $17.99