Jo: 4296 books
The Family
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit...
by Ed B. Young, Jo Beth Young, Michael Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Transform your heart health!
If you're like most women, you want to get in shape and eat right, but you struggle to stick to a program long enough to see results. And while you know that a healthy physical heart is vital to your well being, recent medical research suggests a healthy spiritual...
Mosby's Pharmacology Memory NoteCards - E-Book
Visual, Mnemonic, and Memory Aids for Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Use this set of colorful cards to master pharmacology! With over 90 cartoons covering drugs and related topics, Mosby's Pharmacology Memory NoteCards: Visual, Mnemonic, and Memory Aids for Nurses, 4th Edition uses humor and illustrations to make studying easier and more fun. These durable, portable...
I Can't Fix You-Because You're Not Broken
The Eight Keys to Freeing Yourself from Painful Thoughts and Feelings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
After 16 years of listening to therapy clients, and many more years dealing with trauma, tragedy, chronic illness, and other adventures, Dr. Jo, a licensed clinical psychologist and registered yoga teacher, has condensed her training and experience into these chapters. Each one offers a different...
Salt in the Sand
Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military...
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...
by Jo Petty
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The best- selling companion to Apples of Gold. Over THREE MILLION copies sold. Redesigned for today's reader.Jo Petty's words of inspiration have been read, shared and treasured by millions of readers for more than fifty years. Discover gem after gem of pithy sayings, verses, poems and prayers, each...
by Lorna Wright, Marie-Jo Morelle
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Do you have a working knowledge of French, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written French is presented and analysed across a whole double page, with explanations as to...
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these...
The Scholarly Writing Process
Short Guides, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Getting stuck is a normal part of the writing process, even for experienced writers. My aim in publishing this Short Guide is to help you generate new writing projects, keep your writing projects moving forward, and ensure that your writing process results in publications.
A Short Guide to...
Simple Friendships
14 Quilts from Exchange-Friendly Blocks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
It's hard to imagine authors Kim Diehl and Jo Morton could get any better--until they joined forces to share their signature looks. Enjoy stitching this creative blend of 14 spectacular quilts, all created from classic blocks. Discover fun ways to exchange blocks with friends or make a scrappy mix...
Meditation Made Simple
An Interactive Guide to Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Hectic life?
Feel like youre racing along on a hamster wheel?
Want some inner peace but dont know how to achieve it?
If your answer is yes, then be sure to read on.
Meditation Made Simple carries with it a simple message: anyone can learn to meditate, regardless of culture or belief system....
by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Jo-Ann Brant examines cultural context and theological meaning in John. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by
• attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs
•...
Never Unfriended
The Secret to Finding & Keeping Lasting Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In a world where women can unfriend each other with the swipe of a finger, how do we find friendships that we can trust to last? Maybe by first becoming those kinds of lasting friends ourselves.
As the community manager at the website incourage.me since 2010, Lisa-Jo Baker has had the chance...