Furman: 101 books
Toni Morrison's Fiction
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman’s explorations of Morrison’s themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys...
by Rich Furman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups that might be unlikely to seek help, Furman...
Bitten
My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators.
It...
Being There
How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Everyone has friends or family who suffer from sickness, disability, depression, or the death of a loved one.
Often times, the people who love the hurting also struggle in their own unique ways. They tend to suffer in silence and without much support from others. Writing from the unique perspective...
Prescription for Life
Three Simple Strategies to Live Younger Longer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
During his more than thirty years as a vascular surgeon, Richard Furman literally held clogged arteries and diseased hearts in his hands and wondered why the person lying on the table hadn't been more careful. Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in America, and in most cases it...
Boomerang Nation
How to Survive Living with Your Parents...the Second Time Around
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
You can go home again! Boomerangers are on the rise. Named for the nearly eighteen million 18- to 35-year-old Americans currently living at home, this rapidly growing phenomenom is becoming a way of life for many college graduates and adults looking for a rent- and hassle-free way to get out of debt...
The Mother Who Stayed
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mother’s unbridled attention, knowing that soon she’ll have to...
by L. Robert Furman EdD
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The use of instructional technology in twenty-first-century classrooms is not a subject to be debated. Rather, it needs to be embraced as a standard practice rather than an enriching activity. In Instructional Technology Tools: A Professional Development Plan, author L. Robert Furman presents a comprehensive...
Kiss the Wave
Embracing God in Your Trials
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.”
What does it mean to “kiss the wave?” These words, attributed to nineteenth-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon, speak to the Christian’s only hope for perseverance in suffering. What if we can learn...
Your Cholesterol Matters
What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A must-read for those on cholesterol lowering medication and those with stents in their hearts
When it comes to our health, what we don't know can harm us most. Eighty-five percent of people over the age of fifty have significant blockage in the arteries of their hearts without any symptoms....
A Man of the Prairie
One Man’S Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
My grandfather entered the world by a difficult birth in a dugout on the Nebraska prairie. His mistakes as a young man and the loss of a wife molded him into a caring person. He experienced wealth that provided whatever was wanted and available. This he obtained by his abilities and selling automobiles...
by Elina Furman, Leah Furman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Get the 411 on LFO!
With a unique rap/pop/hip-hop sound and scorching good looks, these three guys are definitely on their way up. Now, find out all the funkie facts about your fave band, including what it's like on the raod (and opening for the Backstreet Boys and LL Cool J), what kind of...
Happily Ever After
The Drew Barrymore Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Drew Barrymore was a star by the time she was seven years old, a drug addict by twelve, and a has - been before her sixteenth birthday. But with the resounding success of such recent films as Ever After: A Cinderella Story, The Wedding Singer, Never Been Kissed (produced by Drew's production company,...
Sisqo
The Man Behind the Thong
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2001
This stunning biography of Sisqo follows "The Man Behind the Thong's" life and career.
Sisqo broke into the music scene with his top five album, Unleash The Dragon and never before has the music scene been faced with such a dynamic cross-over artist. Sisqo's life however, has not...