Optimistic Parenting
Happier lives. Less stress. Family harmony. That's what all parents of children with challenging behaviour want. Learn how to get there with this groundbreaking guide to confident, skillful, and positive parenting. A book you'll want to share with...
The Optimist's Daughter
A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.
Optimistic Child
FROM INTERNATIONALLY ESTEEMED PSYCHOLOGIST AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS "The first major work to provide an effective program for preventing depression in childhood - and probably later in life." Aaron T. Beck, author of...
Optimists
? Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ? The Optimists: in a world full of suffering, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future? 'Exceptional' Sunday Times 'Powerful and lively' Financial Times 'A delight' Time...
En optimists bekännelser och reflektioner
Björn Fajersson är jurist med tidigare erfarenheter som domare och partner hos en världens största revisions- och konsultfirmor och har skrivit både skattehandböcker och många professionella artiklar i tidningar. Den professionella verksa...
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, re...
Hopeless but Optimistic
Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of...
The Sceptical Optimist
The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical o...
Tough-Minded Optimist
"If you want to live in this tough world and still have some real faith and optimism, this book is for you." -- Norman Vincent Peale The many ills of the modern world can be debilitating. With so much seemingly senseless violence, pain, ...
Incorrigible Optimists Club
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a g...
Optimists Die First
Ever since tragedy struck her family, Petula has learned to see danger everywhere - whether it's crossing the road or eating a poached egg. Petula's determined not to let her guard down, even if this means allowing herself to be ruled by anxiety a...
The Optimistic Child
New York Times bestselling author Martin E. P. Seligman's The Optimistic Child is 'the first major work to provide an effective program for preventing depression in childhood -- and probably later in life' (Aaron T. Beck, author of Love is Never Enough). The epidemic of depression in America strikes 30% of all children. Now Martin E. P. Seligman, the bestselling author of Learned Optimism, and his colleagues offer parents and educators a program clinically proven to cut that risk in half. With this startling research, parents can teach children to apply optimism skills that can curb depression, boost school performance, and improve physical health. These skills provide children with the resilience they need to approach the teenage years and adulthood with confidence. For more than thirty years the self-esteem movement has infiltrated American homes and classrooms with the credo that supplying positive feedback, regardless of the quality of performance, will make children feel better