Lisa Hoffman: 11 books
Faerie Knitting
14 Tales of Love and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation.
The magic of storytelling and the magic of knitting—woven...
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility...
The Healing Power Of Movement
How To Benefit From Physical Activity During Your Cancer Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Recent clinical studies show that exercise rather than rest may be the best therapy for someone undergoing cancer treatments. The Healing Power of Movement addresses this significant shift in care recommendations and clearly illustrates fifty specific exercises-from simply sitting up or moving in...
by Laura Savu Walker, Patrick Crapanzano, Joseph Donica
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context offers a timely contribution to the debates about the good life that surround us every day in the media, politics, the humanities, and social sciences. The authors’ examine the relationship between the good life and the greater good as represented...
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China
Fostering Talent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development...
Imaginarium 4
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2014 calendar year.
Featuring Kelley...
Starting Up
Critical Lessons from 10 New Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Starting Up is a collection of first-person accounts by some of the best-known founders of new schools in America. Providing the kind of knowledge that only experience can teach, it is an invaluable resource for anyone in the process of or thinking about opening a new school, as well as those interested...
Imaginarium 2012
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
by Lisa M. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the birth of a special being spoken of...
by Lisa M. Halvorson, Barbara L. Hoffman, John O Schorge
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The only gynecology textbook to combine a comprehensive medical reference and a full color surgical atlas in one beautifully illustrated volume
A Doody's Core Title for 2017!
Williams Gynecology, Third Edition is specifically designed as a practical quick-reference guide for practicing...