What Could He Be Thinking?: A Guide to the Mysteries of a Man’s Mind

Gurian, Michael

Parenting & Relationships

Element

Help your son grow into the strong, loving man God created him to be with Raising Boys by Design. Packed with doable strategies and eye-opening examples of what’s really going on inside a boy’s brain, Raising Boys by Design offers a practical blueprint to help you build a HERO—one who values Honor, Enterprise, Responsibility, and Originality. Among other things, you’ll learn how to help your son: • strengthen his character, resilience, and self-discipline • nurture genuine compassion and empathy • process words and emotions in ways that fit his brain chemistry • succeed in school and hone crucial life skills • develop a healthy perspective of sexuality • avoid the pitfalls of media and technology • embark on a lifelong adventure of faith This unique resource combines the latest research in brain science with timeless truths from the Bible to reveal the deepest needs shared by every boy of faith while also leading you to fresh insights for honoring the unique personality, talents, and God-given design of your son in particular. You can help your son thrive today as the hero he is meant to be when you learn the secrets of Raising Boys by Design.

Raising Boys by Design: What the Bible and Brain Science Reveal About What Your Son Needs to Thrive

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jantz, Dr. Gregory L.

Psychology & Counseling

WaterBrook

What Could He Be Thinking?: How a Man's Mind Really Works

Having studied how boys and girls develop differently, Michael Gurian turns his attention to adult men in this entertaining, informative, and groundbreaking book on the male brain. Following two decades of neurobiological research, What Could He Be Thinking? answers the questions women and the world are asking about husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and coworkers. Mixing neurobiology with Gurian's very readable writing style, anecdotes from everyday life, and a new vision of the male psyche, the book will satisfy the tremendous curiosity women and our culture have about the roots of male behavior. Women know intuitively that men are different from them. What women are now just coming to realize is that the men they are married to, having sex with, working with, parenting with, and trying to fathom, act and think in very male ways, not only because they are socialized to do so, but because they are built to - neurobiologically. The new field of brain science has revealed wonderful secrets about a man's mind. In this book, women who are eager to understand the men in their lives can discover the new brain science in an entertaining way, as they get answers to the prime question every woman asks at some time in her life: What could he be thinking? The book provides fascinating information about the male brain, male habits, male tendencies and the nuances of men's' actions and thoughts. It is a provocative, exciting vision into the minds of men.

St.Martin's Press

Having studied how boys and girls develop differently, Michael Gurian turns his attention to adult men in this entertaining, informative, and groundbreaking book on the male brain. Following two decades of neurobiological research, What Could He Be Thinking? answers the questions women and the world are asking about husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and coworkers. Mixing neurobiology with Gurian's very readable style, anecdotes from everyday life, and a new vision of the male psyche, the book will satisfy the tremendous curiosity women and our culture have about the roots of male behavior.
Women know intuitively that men are different from them. What women are now just coming to realize is that the men they are married to, having sex with, working with, parenting with, and trying to fathom, act and think in very male ways, not only because they are socialized to do so, but because they are built to--neurobiologically.
The new field of brain science has revealed wonderful secrets about a man's mind. In this book, women who are eager to understand the men in their lives can discover the new brain science in an entertaining way, as they get answers to the prime question every woman asks at some time in her life: What could he be thinking?
The book provides fascinating information about the male brain, male habits, male tendencies, and the nuances of men's actions and thoughts. It is a provacative, exciting vision into the minds of men.

St. Martin's: Griffin

The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives

The final and conclusive book in the groundbreaking series on boys and their development In this climax to his series of landmark books about boys, Michael Gurian offers a powerful new program to help us give our sons a core purpose–a program based on building morality, character, career goals, the ability to form intimate relationships, selflessness, personal and community responsibility, and an accelerated process of developmental maturity. Gurian reveals how important purpose is for the success and happiness of boys and explains how a boy's core personality, nature, and genetic predisposition functions to create both strengths and weaknesses in their journey towards maturity. <ul>
<li>Includes an innovative program for support and interventions according to the unique needs, weaknesses, and strengths of each individual young man.</li> <li>This book is the follow-up to Gurian's bestselling The Minds of Boys
</li> <li>Draws on the latest science and field research on how boys develop neurologically</li> <li>Gurian explores the unique issues boys must confront, and shows how their strategy for moral development and success in life is predicated on their nature and genetic predispositions.</li> </ul>

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality

From Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls, comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child’s unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive. 
Based on the most recent brain research, Nurture the Nature features the Ten Tips for Nurturing the Nature of Your Baby, self-tests, checklists, and many other tools for you to help your kids get exactly the kind of support they need, from infants to adolescents. While offering positive ideas for nurturing your child, Gurian also shows how to avoid the stress, pressures, and excessive competition of what he identifies as social trends parenting. Most parents know instinctively that their child is unique and has special potential, weaknesses, and strengths. No child is a blank slate. Gurian calls on parents to turn away from one-size-fits-all approaches and instead support the individual core nature of a child with effective and customized loving care.

Jossey-Bass

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a proven method to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts. <ul>
<li>Explores the inherent differences between the developmental neuroscience of boys and girls</li> <li>Reveals how the brain learns</li> <li>Explains when same sex classrooms are appropriate, and when they’re not</li> </ul>
This edition includes new information on a wealth of topics including how to design the ultimate classroom for kids in elementary, secondary, middle, and high school.

Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Michael Gurian is the authority on what makes boys the way they are -- so teenage girls will definitely want the only young adult book on the market that answers the age-old question: Why do boys act like they do? It's all here -- scientific, social, and psychological explanations for why boys never talk about their feelings, why they can be aggressive, and why they think so much about sex. There's also sound and practical advice to help teen girls and guys better relate -- plus engaging real-life anecdotes from girls about how to cope with and enjoy the wonderful, frustrating, bewildering differences between the sexes.

Understanding Guys: A Guide for Teenage Girls

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Demco Media

Under the tutelage of an aging Sufi master, Ben Brickman, an American graduate student in psychology, embarks on a spiritual quest that leads him around the world as he completes ten tasks of enlightenment designed to reveal the ultimate truth. By the author of The Wonder of Boys. 22,500 first printing.

An American Mystic: A Novel of Spiritual Adventure

Literature & Fiction

United States

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What Could He Be Thinking?: A Guide to the Mysteries of a Man’s Mind

Raising Boys by Design: What the Bible and Brain Science Reveal About What Your Son Needs to Thrive

What Could He Be Thinking?: How a Man's Mind Really Works

What Could He Be Thinking?: How a Man's Mind Really Works

The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives

Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality

The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives

Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Understanding Guys: A Guide for Teenage Girls

An American Mystic: A Novel of Spiritual Adventure