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Say Yes to Your Potential


Skip Ross - 1983
    In this book, businessman and motivational speaker Skip Ross, shares the steps he has discovered for turning that unused potential into a dynamic, exciting quality of life. Not just another book on positive thinking, this is solid, practical help forged from real-life experience. And thousands who have attended Skip's seminars testify: his ideas work! Say Yes To Your Potential is an exciting, usable, life-changing concept for business and professional people, students, homemakers--anyone who is interesteed in a happier, more productive, more fulfilling way of living.

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A.F.N. Clarke - 1983
    This edition has additional material previously left out of the hardbacks and paperback version first published by Martin Secker & Warburg, PAN Books and Schocken Books.

Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years


Thomas Lickona - 1983
    Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values.   Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage:   • Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos” • Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it • What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk • How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair” • Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them • How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex • How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more.  “An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father “We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family  “Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum

The Human Body


Jonathan Miller - 1983
    

Indoor Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor Bible


Jorge Cervantes - 1983
    The classic "Indoor Bible" puts all the latest information on indoor cultivation at your fingertips. Learn how growers maximize yields, harvesting more than a pound of connoisseur quality bud per 1000w bulb every two months. Includes precise color drawings and photos of numerous plant problems, a troubleshooting chart, four case studies, weekly checklist, calendar, glossary and index. The book is packed with extensive information on hydroponics, including the Sea Of Green, lighting, soils & soilless mixes, CO2, insect, spider mite, fungus & disease control, fertilizers, nutrient disorders, seeds & seedlings, seed companies, plant care, mother plants, pruning & bending, determining sex, odor control, drying, harvest, medicinal use, safety and security. 200 color photos 200 b/w drawings, charts & graphs Step-by-Step guide to: Setting up grow rooms Setting up light systems Setting up light movers Setting up ventilation systems Planting ideal gardens Growing perfect clones Flawless transplanting Bountiful harvests Breeding & beyond Indoor Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor Bible is the best-selling book on indoor marijuana cultivation in the world. This is why growers christened it "The Indoor Bible". All editions of the book have been bestsellers since it was first published in 1983. The book is packed with simple how-to examples and step-by-step instructions that both novice and advanced growers use successfully. If you want to read only one book on indoor growing, this is it!

Utamaro: Portraits from the Floating World


Tadashi Kobayashi - 1983
    But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is-gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers-is brought together in this book to present as clear a picture of Utamaro's life as modem researchers are capable of. Utamaro is placed in his cultural setting-the pleasure-loving urban culture of eighteenth-century Tokyo, the shogun's capital and the de facto center of JapanUtamaro's world was that of teahouse girls and courtesans whose fame and popularity can only be compared, in modern terms, to those of a movie actress whose name is on every man's lips. His was a world of popular literature and art, of publishers competing for the work of the most talked-about writers and artists. This world, however, was under the constant scrutiny of the authorities, and near the end of his career, Utamaro fell afoul of the government's proscription of certain subject matter, and he was sentenced to three days in prison and fifty days in hand chains.But Utamaro's life is only one theme of this book. The other is the development of his art, the perfection of his depictions of women that enabled him to capture subtle moods and differences of character. The prints of women produced by the ukiyo-e artists preceding Utamaro showed expressionless beauties of little individuality. It was against this that Utamaro rebelled, creating such prints as that of the kashi, one of the lowest ranking of courtesans-in fact, a mere prostitute. Recognizing within himself the power to see and depict the individual behind the outward appearance, Utamaro added to some of his prints the notation "Studies in Physiognomic Judgment of Character by Utamaro." Modem opinion tends to agree with Utamaro's assessment of himself, and his reputation as an artist of the inner woman has firmly established him in the top ranks of the ukiyo-e world.

A Sister for Sam


Evelyn Mason - 1983
    Cheer Bear, a Care Bear from the land of Care-a-Lot who always knows the right thing to say, helps Sam overcome his anxiety and resentment against his brand new baby sister.