Heather: 3162 books

One of a series on self-publishing from Mackay Books, this explains how to launch your print book and maximise sales. Learn how many books sell at launches, with promotional tools to boost pre-publicity. Find ideas for venues, catering, and timing. With this information your book launch will be an enjoyable event that will set you on the path to being a successful writer.

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers...

A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan...

On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew out of a set of political...

Employers demand more of employees’ time while leaving the important things in life—health, family—for workers to take care of on their own time and dime. How can workers get ahead while making sure their families don’t fall behind? Heather Boushey shows in detail that economic efficiency and equity do not have to be enemies.

In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...

Heather Williams went from dancing on the lawn to the stage as a talented, professional dancer and singer. In 2001, she was performing in the inaugural crew of Universal Studios Japan. 7 1/2 months into her contract a taxi hit her and she acquired a traumatic brain injury.   Little...

"I am the happiest man in the world because God entrusted me with this mission." In John of God: The Brazilian Healer Who's Touched the Lives of Millions, a seemingly average rancher from Abadiânia, Brazil, offers a powerful message of love, compassion, and hope for humanity. João Teixeira...

"Women-in-Prison Short Stories" is a series of short stories (one or more per ebook) about real women inmates and their real crimes, experiences in prison, and impact on the author while she was an inmate in women's prison.The series is intended to help troubled teens understand the real,...

This is a true story about a double murder that occurred in Alabama, as told to me by fellow inmates at a women's prison in Alabama and as presented in Alabama newspapers. It is a story of the relationships between inmates and the woman convicted (along with her husband) of the murder. This...

A fiction anthology, The Complications of Life, is a collection of short stories that remind the audience of just that, the complicated nature of life. These stories are a peek into the world of men and women surviving the hereafter of their lives, doing the best with what they have left. The stories...

You might not want to be a flight attendant, battling non-stop jet lag and coddling cranky passengers, but haven’t you secretly longed to travel like one? Imagine breezing past lines at security and customs, relaxing in comfortable transportation to your hotel and stretching vacation dollars with...

DON'T DO IT! is a dark, comedy training manual for Human Resources professionals and all managers of employees. Full of hilarious, but common, employee situations and coping methods, it is an awesome primer for any new manager...or trainer in need of presentation material.

An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last....