Lauren Scott: 16 books
by Lauren Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Finding a Balance is Laurens second book of poetry, following New Day, New Dreams published in 2013. This compilation speaks often of her emotions and spirit after finding out about a life threatening disease two years ago in one of her family members. There is no devastating ending in the near future...
by Lauren Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
New Day, New Dreams takes the reader on a romantic ride of happiness, heartbreak, and passion, along with exploring struggles in life, while being inspired to move forward. Adding humor and laughter to the mix is a delightful reprieve from heartbreak and hurt. This collection of poetry is a beautiful...
Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism
Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
“Sir John’s ability to comprehend complex concepts and distill these into money-making ideas for his investors was legendary. With this book, Scott Phillips extends Sir John Templeton’s crystal clear vision to some of tomorrow’s most interesting and powerful money-making opportunities. All readers...
Nevertheless We Persisted
Tales of Loss, Love, and Finding Your Own Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is the ebook companion to a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope.
Pieces include:
A...
The End of Oulipo?
An attempt to exhaust a movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature.
Plant-Driven Design
Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles.
With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect...
Totalitarianism on Screen
The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
Life Inside My Mind
31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review)
“[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...
by Scott Phillips, Lauren C. Templeton
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
“To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.”-Sir John Templeton
Called the “greatest stock picker of the century” by Money magazine, legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton...
Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens
200 Drought-Tolerant Choices for all Climates
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
“I can't imagine a designer or avid gardener who wouldn't want this on their bookshelf.” —Garden Design Online
Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens is a practical guide to the best 200 plants guaranteed to thrive in low-water gardens. Plant entries provide the common and botanical...
Messy Eating
Conversations on Animals as Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit
Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of the thought of contemporary French philosopher, historian of ideas, and novelist Chantal Delsol. A member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, she is well known in France as a political analyst and cultural diagnostician....
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