Barbara Smith: 147 books
by Greg Crosby, Mike Pellowski, Barbara Slate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The Cheap Date": A lesson in Archie economics: even when you're out of cash, you can always run out of more! "Giving Orders": Tired of the nickname, "Mister Mess-up," Archie bets Reggie that he can handle any difficult task... and has a difficult time winning that bet!...
by Barbara Slate, Kathleen Webb, Stan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Dinner for Six": When the parents of Archie, Betty and Veronica make plans to meet for dinner, the teens are mortified. What if the subject turns to the eternal love triangle? Each imagines, and worries, over what may happen from their unique perspective. Will the dinner conversation leave...
by Angelo DeCesare, Kathleen Webb, Barbara Slate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Phone-y Problem: With yet another of his speeches interrupted by the ringing, Mr. Weatherbee declares a ban on students' cell phones! Is the ban a good "call," or is the Bee just dialing a "wrong number?!" "Take Your Time": Archie struggles to figure out the difference...
by Ruth Cash-Smith, Barbara Janoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Visual-thinking graphic designers sometimes struggle to express themselves clearly and effectively in writing. Now there’s help! The Graphic Designer’s Guide to Better Business Writing teaches graphic designers how to write compelling business communications. Created especially to address the...
Our Friend Joe
The Joe Fortes Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citizen of the Century.” Our Friend Joe is the first biography of the West Indian sailor who became...
Novel Ideas
Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...
by John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language...
Radical Prayer
The Power of Being Bold and Persistent
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
What if we prayed how Jesus taught us to?
Many of us pray with little heart. We mutter the usual and leave with little expectation. But is this how Jesus taught us to pray?
The Lord’s Prayer is a prayer according to God’s will, a prayer that beckons heaven to crash into earth. Tied...
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2000
In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates...
by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting...
Learning Culture through Sports
Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context...
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
Living an Abundant Life
Inspirational Stories from Entrepreneurs Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Get inspired to unleash your full potential and enjoy a life of wealth and abundance with this story collection from the creator of WildWealthy.com.
Have you been searching for ways to live a truly fulfilling life? Do you want more happiness, wealth, good health and joy? If you’ve answered...
Whale Hunting
How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Using the ancient Inuit whale hunt as a metaphor for big sales, Whale Hunting gives you a clear nine-phase model for successfully finding, landing, and harvesting whale-sized sales accounts—the kind of sales that transform your business. Here, you’ll learn how to turn the dangerous endeavor of...