Stephanie: 3440 books
by Stephanie Dickison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This book is a comic narrative about the real life of a full–time writer. Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles for over a decade while working a full–time job but in December 2005 she left the secure world of a &dlquo;real job&drquo; to tackle completing...
Transition to Common Work
Building Community at The Working Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Part 2: Community Engagement
Chapter 4 The Virtues
Joe Mancini and Stephanie Mancini
The Working Centre has integrated the virtues into its organizational philosophy because the sharing of goods and the building of cooperation is fundamental for relationships and friendship....
Daily Cornbread
365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows African American women how to soothe the soul, satisfy the mind, and revive the body 365 days a year.
Written in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous, Daily Cornbread is a day-by-day compendium...
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . [and] how one generation of black women benefited from the work and sacrifices of the prior generation."--Adah L. Ward Randolph, Ohio University "Keen historical and theoretical observation...
Leftism Reinvented
Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a...
The Past and Future City
How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In*The Past and Future City,*Stephanie Meeks, the presidof the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describes in detail, and with unique empirical research, the many ways that saving and restoring historic fabric can help a city create thriving neighborhoods, good jobs, and a vibrant economy....
Your Spacious Self
Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
IT’S A JUNGLE . . . IN HERE!
Behind our stress, clutter, and confusion is an infinitely spacious place one might call stillness or joy. This is our natural state of being, but we usually don’t experience it, because we are caught in a web of material possessions, desires, and fears.
Our...
by Stephanie Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
I was once a young girl who had never had a riding lesson. I lived in the city, and I dreamed. My dreams became bigger. Dreams are never a bad thing: they drive you.
by Stephanie Barczewski
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace...
Pelletier
The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous...
Alone Time
Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times
A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo**
In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of...
At Knit's End
Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from the Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. At Knit’s End captures the wickedly funny musings of someone who doesn’t believe it’s possible to knit too much and who willingly sacrifices sleep,...
by Stephanie B. Blake
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"Money is often on my mind. Chances are it is on your mind, too. Whether we have a lot of it, just enough of it, not much of it or none at all, money is on our minds."
With frugality in her DNA, the author explains her lengthy title in the foreword: “Since your perception of riches...