Gelman: 38 books
Humor After the Tumor
One Woman's Look at Her Year With Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Breast cancer survivor Patty Gelman recounts her journey through "Cancer World" in a series of anecdotes, chronicling her year-long struggle with the disease in an upbeat, colloquial, and often candidly funny way. Typical of her unyieldingly positive attitude is the way that Gelman breaks...
Getting Healthier
The New Paradigm in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
With all of the modern disruption and controversy in health care, new models which are patient-centered are appearing. And now, after 40 years as an accomplished nephrologist, Dr. Martin Gelman has decided to expand his practice and modernize the health care for his patients to not only make them...
soft designs
ramblings of the interim pictures & poems book one
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2020
AFTER A CHANCEcircumstance, Martin Gelman reconnects with his first wife of over forty years ago. The trick is, he is an admired doctor and married, and thousands of miles away. This is that journey, sublimated in poetry and pictures, destined to unfold in real time, with each installment of Soft Designs.
soft designs
ramblings of the interim pictures & poems book two
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2020
AFTER A CHANCE circumstance, Martin Gelman reconnects with his first wife of over forty years ago. The trick is, he is an admired doctor and married, and thousands of miles away. This is that journey, sublimated in poetry and pictures, destined to unfold in real time, with each installment of Soft Designs.
The Essential Child
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as "dog," "man," or "intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea come from? In this book, Susan Gelman argues that essentialism is an early cognitive bias. Young children's concepts...
Class Mom
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Laurie Gelman’s clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics.
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age...
by JUAN GELMAN
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Originalmente aparecidas en las páginas de un diario porteño, las 77 crónicas que Juan Gelman recoge en este libro se distinguen por la mirada inconforme y puntual, irreverente y erudita que las alimenta –esa misma que ha hecho de su autor uno de los poetas más singulares y universales de la...
by Juan Gelman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Este nuevo libro de Juan Gelman, Premio Cervantes 2008, refrenda la misión central de la poesía, cuestionar el lenguaje con el lenguaje y llevarlo al extremo de sí, nombrar lo que no podemos nombrar y darle existencia por primera vez en el poema, abolir la palabra vana. El verbo anómalo y certero...
Everyone Can Write
A guide to get you started
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Whatever your skill level, Everyone Can Write will help you to become a better writer. Covering all the structural approaches to non-fiction writing, it will enable you to: impart facts in a report; develop an argument in an essay; tell a story through narrative; and, add a human touch to emails and...
by Peter Gelman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
HAVE NO FEAR. WE ARE WATCHING. "Despite the hazards and gloom, I wasn't too worried about Seth. His letters said that things seemed to be going very well on Chalice Island. He said that they had uncovered many of the moth egg nests and poisoned them without incident, with one exception." HAVE NO FEAR....
You've Been Volunteered
A Class Mom Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman’s "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her
If you’ve ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what...
Female Nomad and Friends
Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She...
Tales of a Female Nomad
Living at Large in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Rita Golden Gelman is an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe.
In 1986 Rita sold her...
The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition
Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's FavoriteBooks and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“Part cookbook, part celebration of the written word, [The Book Club Cookbook] illustrates how books and ideas can bring people together.”
—Publishers Weekly
"We are what we eat, they say. We can eat what we read, too. The Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy...