Conley: 261 books
Plastic Indian
A Collection of Stories and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
“So what does it mean to be a Cherokee?” asks Cherokee author Robert J. Conley at the start of this delightful collection of his writings. Throughout his prolific career, Conley used his art to explore Cherokee identity and experience. With his passing in 2014, Native American literature—and...
Cannibals
Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection
Here you are in New Jersey, but not Soprano-land New Jersey, this is central Jersey, the edge of the Pine Barrens, where the everydayness of life is interrupted by devils and angels, murderers and saviors, cheaters and music...
Wisdom at Work
The Making of a Modern Elder
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Experience is making a comeback. Learn how to repurpose your wisdom.
At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking...
Wil Usdi
Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer...
Parentology
Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
An award-winning scientist offers his unorthodox approach to childrearing: “Parentology is brilliant, jaw-droppingly funny, and full of wisdom…bound to change your thinking about parenting and its conventions” (Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother).
If you’re like many...
Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what...
by Rosemary Conley
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Rosemary Conley CBE is Britain's most trusted diet expert. So who better to bring us a diet book that takes the scientifically proven success of Glycaemic Indexing (Gi) but presents it in a way that is straightforward and easy to follow.
Unlike other Gi books, Rosemary Conley's Gi Jeans Diet...
Rosemary Conley’s 3-2-1 Diet
Just 3 steps to a slimmer, fitter you
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
There really is a better way to diet! Rosemary Conley has devised a plan to suit the way you eat. Whether you are a 'constant craver', a 'feaster' or an 'emotional eater', Rosemary will show you how to diet to suit your personality.
Research has shown that overweight or obese people can be...
Boy Erased
Autobiografische Erzählung
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Was bleibt, wenn einem alles genommen, wenn sogar die Identität ausradiert werden soll? Wie erinnert man sich an die Zeit, in der man ausgelöscht werden sollte? 2004 in Arkansas im sogenannten Bible Belt der USA: Ein Bekannter outet den neunzehnjährigen Garrard Conley gegen seinen Willen vor den...
The Pecking Order
A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think. But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton...
by Robert J. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee.Robert Conley begins his survey with...
Cherokee Medicine Man
The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped
Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world “what...
PEAK
How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Proven principles for sustainable success, with new leadership insight
PEAK is the popular, transformative guide to doing business better, written by a seasoned entrepreneur/CEO who has disrupted his favorite industry not once, but twice. Author Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of one of...
Mountain Windsong
A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill")...