Barbara Walker: 15 books
Make That Baby Happy!
How a "Woman in Blue" Built Hope for Women and Children in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
On a visit to Haiti, Barbara Walker noticed that a penned rooster had a better life than children living on the streets and in some orphanages. Follow this ordinary womans journey as she finds homes for almost two thousand abandoned and orphaned children and builds Ruuska Village for street women...
by Jie-Hyun Lim, Barbara Walker, Peter Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
Hope Beneath Our Feet
Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are now...
by Sherry D. Ramsey, Ron Collins, Janet Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Gods, nymphs, vampires, deathless clones, cursed mages and those who serve them face perils where immortality acts as either curse or blessing or...both. Souls and selves lie at stake in this eclectic bundle.
Featuring:
The Goddess Problem by Sherry D. Ramsey
Glamour of the God-Touched...
by Barbara G. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male! Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands.
Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Grants and fellowships are increasingly essential to an academic career, and competition over federal and foundation funding is fiercer than ever. Yet there has hitherto been little training available for this genre of writing.
Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences demystifies...
Developing Human Capital
Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Don't squander your most valuable resource!
Collectively, your workers are your company's most important and most valuable asset. To make the most of this asset, nothing beats quantitative performance and investment measurement. Learning and Development is an 80 billion-dollar industry, and...
by Barbara Bettis, Collette Cameron, Beppie Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A book of 14 Historical Romance excerpts to introduce you to our stories that will sweep you away to experience intrigue, revenge, danger, adventure and passion. The excerpts are from stories that span the eras from the Viking Age to the Medieval era, to Regency England, France and even Edwardian elegance....
by Barbara G. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features:
Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object
21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts,...
2018 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Girls, Boys, Robots - Everyone is Welcome here!
This stellar collection will appeal to both teens and grown-ups who dream of future worlds. ~Kirkus Starred Review
What’s it like to be a space station detective? To be homesick for Mars? What do you say when your robot
gets you in...
Create Your Retirement
55 Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2002
Why this book? Most books on Retirement are really about Financial Planning or Estate Planning. Not this book!
This book is about creating a fulfilling life in retirement; it is a crossover book between self-help and retirement.
Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the...
The Crone
Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restores to contemporary women an energizing symbol of self-value, power, and respect.
Psychiatry in Prisons
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health...
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