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What Happened to You?
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/what-happened-youThis book is for anyone who has been on a learning journey to understand how trauma impacts our biology and our behavior. This is a current explanation of the neurobiology told through stories and examples. Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah... Read More
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The Age of Overwhelm
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/age-overwhelmWhether you are overwhelmed by work, school or your personal life, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain you, suggests Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship. She offers concrete strategies to help mitigate... Read More
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Never Too Late
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/never-too-lateThis book offers practical advice for adult students pursuing a college degree while also juggling work, raising a family, and managing other responsibilities. Infused with charts and checklists, as well as personal stories from adult... Read More
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What's Math Got To Do With It?
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/whats-math-got-do-itThis engaging book shows —rather than tells — the reader what terrific math instruction looks like. It's for teachers and parents who want to improve children’s mathematics learning. The author presents advice and research findings through... Read More
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Trauma Stewardship
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/trauma-stewardshipA practical book that addresses compassion fatigue. The author, a trauma social worker and educator, helps others who work in the trauma field find balance and ways to sustain themselves. Readers are gently guided along a path of... Read More
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Our Kids
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/our-kidsPutnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students — "our kids" — went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid... Read More
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How Children Succeed
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/how-children-succeedCharacter, not smarts, makes children successful, argues Paul Tough. The good news is that character can be taught. He tells us how in a series of real-life examples. Read More
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Creating Innovators
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/creating-innovatorsThis book offers a strong argument for developing an innovation-driven economy. Wagner looks in depth at what we all — parents, employers, teachers — must do to encourage our youngest citizens to be creative, a... Read More
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Do What You Are
URL: https://www.tfff.org/select-books/book/do-what-you-areUseful for anyone seeking a meaningful career and especially young people. Readers determine their Personality Type, then identify occupations popular with each Type. The book offers each Type’s work-related strengths and weaknesses. Read... Read More