Katherine Ellison: 8 books

Book cover of Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools
by Tom Little, Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners. The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this...
Book cover of Buzz

Buzz

A Year of Paying Attention

by Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010

"An absorbing, sharply observed memoir." -Kirkus Reviews A hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son-a true story sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewildering behavior. Popular literature...
Book cover of The New Economy of Nature

The New Economy of Nature

The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable

by Gretchen Daily, Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay, and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just that question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a threat to our own lives and our...
Book cover of The Mommy Brain

The Mommy Brain

How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter

by Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006

In The Mommy Brain, Katherine Ellison reveals the ways that women get smarter after having kids. Motherhood makes women more perceptive, efficient, resilient, motivated, and emotionally intelligent -- all of which adds up to tremendous mental enrichment and effectiveness.
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ADHD

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Stephen P. Hinshaw, Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015

Rates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving diagnosis...
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At War

The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

by David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial...
Book cover of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals
by Katherine Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public. While there are many surveys of cryptography, none pay any attention to the volume of manuals that appeared during the seventeenth...
Book cover of The Fatal News

The Fatal News

Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

by Katherine E. Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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