Scribner imprint: 1661 books
Mollie's Job
A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Following the flight of one woman's factory job from the United States to Mexico, this compelling work offers a provocative and fresh perspective on the global economy -- at a time when downsizing is unraveling the American Dream for many working families.
Mollie's Job is an absorbing and affecting...
Born to Buy
The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Cult
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere -- in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Companies are enlisting children as guerrilla marketers,...
Creating Innovators (Enhanced eBook)
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators...
All-American Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"A survivor's tale that in its universal appeal brings to mind the most compelling aspects of "Gal" and "Shot in the Heart." Through the course of these scathing, inspiring, instructive pages, Scott Peck, writer and human being, grows into one hell of a terrific man.".--Michael Dorris.
Seasons of Her Life
A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
When Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as secretary of state in January 1997, she made headlines around the world. She was the first woman to rise to the top tier of American government and had a reputation for defining foreign policy in blunt one-liners that voters could understand. When her...
Achilles in Vietnam
Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation...
The Folly of Empire
What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roos
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The New York Times hailed John B. Judis's The Emerging Democratic Majority as "indispensable." Now this brilliant political writer compares the failure of American imperialism a century ago with the potential failure of the current administration's imperialistic policies.
One hundred years...
Bad Dirt
Wyoming Stories 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Range.
Annie Proulx’s new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances...
by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.
Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk...
The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have
The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
ATTITUDE OVER APTITUDE.
EFFORT OVER ACHIEVEMENT.
CHARACTER OVER TALENT.
For families, educators, corporations, and communities, The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have is nothing less than a new paradigm for reconnecting education with core values. With more than thirty-five years' experience at Hyde,...
Tiger's Child
The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teac
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1995
Special-education teacher Torey Hayden's first book, One Child, was an international bestseller, thrilling readers on every continent. Their hearts were captured by Sheila, a silent, troubled girl who had been abandoned on a highway by her mother and abused by her alcoholic father, and who refused...
On Grief and Grieving
Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, her collaborator, completed the manuscript for this, her final book. On Grief and Grieving is a fitting completion to her work. Thirty-six years and sixteen books ago, Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying changed...
Life Lessons
Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Is this really how I want to live my life?
Each one of us at some point asks this question. The tragedy is not that life is short but that we often see only in hindsight what really matters.
In this, her first book on life and living, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross joins with David Kessler to...
Death
The Final Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning.
Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do...