Susan: 10531 books
by Susan Estrich
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Whether you’re is a college junior facing the LSATs, a senior sitting with disappointing test scores, or someone who has always dreamed of a career in the law, there is too much at stake not to ask the hard questions about what lies ahead.
In How to Get Into Law School, Susan Estrich lends...
Spy the Lie
Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Three former CIA officers—among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior—share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie
Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. Be it hiring a new employee,...
Sole Sisters
Stories of Women and Running
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
More than 11 million women run regularly, a number that's growing every year. They tend to be educated and affluent-the perfect audience for Sole Sisters.Half of all runners are women, and they are changing the face of the sport. It's a social outlet, a healthful way to improve mental well-being,...
Father of Route 66
The Story of Cy Avery
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build.
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins...
by Susan S. Fainstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor...
Liberating Economics
Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently...
Hitler's Art Thief
Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank...
Under One Roof Again
All Grown Up and (Re)learning to Live Together Happily
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
As nest eggs shrink, parents are moving in with their adult children and grandchildren in record numbers. Similarly, with jobs scarce and unemployment high, more and more adult children, be they recent college grads (77% of them in 2009) or on their own for a while, are returning home to their parents....
by Susan Witt, Judy Wicks, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
In these lectures, Susan Witt and Judy Wicks pay tribute to Jane Jacobs, legendary urban activist and visionary. Witt speaks to the warmth...
Widows 101
How Not to Eat Moldy Bread
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Imagine working for years at your " dream job" only to have it taken away from you suddenly. What if the Boss changed your job description from " partner and party planner" to permanent cubicle resident with no benefits or chance of reinstatement? That's what it is like to become...
The Three Roosevelts
Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).
The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt,...
by Susan Kietzman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Between workouts, charity events, and shopping, Ann Barons keeps her days as full as her walk-in closets. She shares an immaculate house with her CEO husband, Mike, and their two teenagers, Nate and Lauren. It's a luxurious life, far from her homespun childhood on a farm in eastern Pennsylvania. ....
Networking
Beyond the Buzz Word - Biz Books to Go
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
With Networking: Beyond the Buzzword, available only as an eBook, bestselling author, in-demand keynote speaker, and The Mingling Maven, Susan RoAne, unlocks the secrets to that one skill everyone wants, but no one feels they have. With her characteristic sense of humor and style, RoAne offers veteran...
by Susan Booysen
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Much of the country's political future is determined by the ANC's internal elections. Here political analyst Susan Booysen gives an incisive breakdown of the cutthroat elections of Polokwane in 2007 and Mangaung in 2012, which will set a course for the party and its potential for renewal for years to come - and for South Africa.