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A dog who's always welcome : assistance and therapy dog trainers teach you how to socialize and train your companion dog / by Long, Lorie.;
Dogs.Increasingly, owners take their dogs everywhere and expect them to behave in all kinds of social situations. This book shares the proven methods of assistance and therapy dog trainers; after all, assistance dogs are models of doggy decorum. Complete with instructive photos, this guide emphasizes socialization and espouses dog-friendly, reward-based techniques. The training creates a reliable, owner-focused dog and an owner who can read his pet and proactively prevent problems. The result? A reliable canine companion who is welcome anywhere.
Subjects: Dogs; Dogs; Dogs;
© 2008., Wiley,

Searching for Normal : A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress, and Neurodiversity. by Timimi, Sami.;
What the general public are being told about the nature of mental health is misleading and may be harming our collective sense of well-being. Mental health ideology may be the biggest and most powerful cause of mental health problems today. In 'Searching for Normal', Dr. Sami Timimi explains why he believes this to be the case and what we can, at an individual and collective level, do about it.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social;

A kids book about belonging / by Carroll, Kevin.;
"This is a book about belonging. It tackles what it's like when you feel like you belong to a group or family or team and what it's like when you don't. It addresses what it feels like when you don't fit in, or when others don't want you around. This book teaches kids how to belong to themselves and how that helps them belong anywhere."--Ages 5+.
Subjects: Belonging (Social psychology); Interpersonal relations;

The chaos machine : the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world / by Fisher, Max,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Brimming with astounding human stories and precise reporting on a willful corporate obliviousness nothing short of criminal, 'The Chaos Machine' captures the full inside story of Big Techs monomaniacal race to drive engagement - and profits - at all costs. Max Fisher is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a co-author of a column called The Interpreter, which uses social science and other tools to explain global trends and major world events.
Subjects: Internet; Social media and society.; Social media;

Swing / by Hall, Michael,1954-;
As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time.LSC
Subjects: Social acceptance; Belonging (Social psychology); Playgrounds;

O sinners! : a novel / by Cuffy, Nicole,author.;
"Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist reeling from the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed in a cult called The Nameless. Based in the California redwoods and shepherded by an enigmatic Vietnam War-veteran named Odo, The Nameless adhere to the 18 Utterances, including teachings such as "THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE NAMELESS," "ALL SUFFERING IS DISTORTION," and "SEE ONLY BEAUTY." Faruq, skeptical but committed to unraveling the mystery of The Nameless, extends his stay over months, as he gets deeper into the cult's inner workings, compassionate teachings, and closer to Odo. Faruq himself begins to unravel, forced to come-to-terms with the memories he has been running from while trying to resist Odo's spell. Told in three seamlessly interwoven threads between Faruq's present-day investigation, Odo's time before the formation of the movement as a Black infantryman during the Vietnam War, alongside three other Black soldiers, and a documentary script that recounts The Nameless' clash with a Texan fundamentalist church, O SINNERS! examines both longing and belonging. Ultimately the novel asks: What is it that we seek from cults and, inevitably, from each other?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Cults; Journalists; Veterans;

Home is where the birds sing / by Rylant, Cynthia.; Harnett, Katie.;
Illustrations and text celebrate the many things--both big and small--that make a place feel like home.LSC
Subjects: Home; Belonging (Social psychology); Families;

The boy crisis : why our boys are struggling and what we can do about it / by Farrell, Warren,author.; Gray, John,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Boys; Boys;

Anointed : The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World. by Stuart, Toby.;
In 'Anointed', leading organizational theorist, Toby Stuart, takes us deep into the realm of humanitys most powerful invisible force - social status - and how it shapes everything from who we trust and what we value to which ideas and innovations change the world and who gets credit for their success.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory;

After nightfall / by Banner, A. J.,author.;
Gripping thriller about an engagement party gone fatally awry. Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone's evening. After an awful night, your friend's battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff. Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can't shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself. Bestselling author A. J. Banner keeps readers on a razor-sharp edge in this intricately plotted novel of psychological suspense ... in which nothing is as it seems.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Female friendship; Alienation (Social psychology); Death; Investigations;