Susan: 10531 books
Itty-Bitty Hats
Cute and Cuddly Caps to Knit for Babies and Toddlers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Beautifully rendered, heartbreakingly adorable, and wonderfully wacky knitted caps for newborns and toddlers
Thirty-eight million Americans knit, and that number grows every day. The baby hat is the perfect project for knitters of any level, with enchanting patterns that are easy enough for...
The Common Place of Law
Stories from Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four...
What Every Bride Needs to Know
The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
This is your guide to all the things that happen after “I do.”
The advice in this book to brides is pretty simple. You don’t need to become an expert on men. Only one man. Learn the secrets to loving and respecting him while also asking for what you need. Take an honest look at your own...
Sewing for All Seasons
24 Stylish Projects to Stitch Throughout the Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
From autumn's bursts of orange and red to spring's lush greens, summer's long-lasting golden light and winter's cool whites and grays, the changing seasons provide endless artistic inspiration. In Sewing for All Seasons, author Susan Beal offers 24 beautiful projects imbued with the spirit of each...
Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art
A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
"Susan has placed the history of knitting within the context of American history, so we can clearly see how knitting is intertwined with such subjects as geography, migration, politics, economics, female emancipation, and evolving social mores. She has traced how a melting pot of knitting traditions...
Ready!
Training the Search and Rescue Dog
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Professional search and rescue workers consider Susan Bulanda’s Ready! Training the Search and Rescue Dog the bible of Search and Rescue (SAR),” the most sought-after book of its kind detailing canine search and rescue. This second edition, expanded and revised with new color photography, provides...
Plan Bee
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on thePla net
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
A guided tour inside the world of bees
Overtaxed and underrecognized-and now disappearing in alarming numbers- bees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, essential for the pollination of more than ninety of the crops we eat. The hardworking, humble, and matriarchal bee finally gets her due...
The Orchid Thief
A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid *Polyrrhiza lindenii—*a...
The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon...
When Elephants Weep
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline...
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things,...
by Susan Schaller
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
Kentucky Derby Dreams
The Making of Thoroughbred Champions
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Author Susan Nusser takes readers inside the excitement and suspense at one of Kentucky's biggest breeding farms. Every year, two hundred broodmares in the farm's barns give birth to the next generation of racehorses. In the eighteen months following their births, those foals will meet the world's...