psychological aspects

Officially the war is over, but Ellie can not seem to escape it and resume a normal life especially after her parents are murdered and she becomes the ward of an unscrupulous lawyer who wants to acquire her family's property.

Provides practical advice for parents on protecting their children from computer and video-game addiction.

Scarred by a fire that killed her father, a seventeen-year-old girl begins a correspondence with a young soldier in 1944.

A guide to helping children and teenagers deal with the frightening images and stories featured on the news that explores the problems that led to many world tragedies.

Olympic and World Cup soccer champion Mia Hamm discusses her life, tracing her path to success on the field, and offers advice and tips to other girls who would like to follow in her footsteps.

A teacher of emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.

Olympic and World Cup soccer champion Mia Hamm discusses her life, tracing her path to success on the field, and offers advice and tips to other girls who would like to follow in her footsteps.

Presents a personality profile based on astrology, numerology, and the tarot for each day of the year and a list of famous people born on that day.

Discusses that great mystery, death, as perceived through the ages; dying with dignity; and the dimensions of grief.

This is a serious look into the social and cultural significance of reality programming. The dynamics of spectatorship and self-revelation have changed in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. Television once worked as a form of sociality that preserved the private. Times have changed. The evolution of reality programming has accompanied a cultural swing toward revelation and voyeuristic consumption that has complicated the divide between public and private experience. And as the line between what is private and public blurs, reality programming's responsibility to its audience becomes more complicated. -- from Preface.