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The Modern Jewish Canon
A Journey Through Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating...
A Thousand Lives
The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his...
by Talia Leman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
You can be greater than you know how to be.
In a world where you are pushed to know more, this book will prove that your greatest asset is often not knowing. In a world where you are told it’s all in the planning, this book will encourage you to keep your cart ahead of your horse and allow...
eLeadership
Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of Speed and Flexibility in the Digital Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
What if the rules that made you successful were the cause of your current problems?
What if the name of the game was personal fulfillment rather than power and wealth?
What if the biggest threat to your company's future was employee dissatisfaction?
What if success in the digital economy depended...
The $1,000 Genome
The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In 2000, President Bill Clinton signaled the completion of the Human Genome Project at a cost in excess of $2 billion. A decade later, the price for any of us to order our own personal genome sequence—a comprehensive map of the 3 billion letters in our DNA—is rapidly and inevitably dropping to...
Cracking the Genome
Inside the Race To Unlock Human DNA
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2001
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. The discovery was a profound, Nobel Prize-winning moment in the history of genetics, but it did not decipher the messages on the twisted, ladderlike strands within our cells. No one knew what the human genome sequence...
by Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Everyone gets angry, so it’s never too early for children to learn to recognize feelings of anger, express them, and build skills for coping with anger in helpful, appropriate ways. Children learn that it is okay to feel angry—but not okay to hurt anyone with actions or words. They discover concrete...
Tattoos on the Heart
The Power of Boundless Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
“Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times)—Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and renowned speaker, Father Gregory Boyle.
For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle...
Our Mothers' War
American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944**
Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed...
Helluva Town
The Story of New York City During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In the stirring signature number from the 1944 Broadway musical On the Town, three sailors on a 24-hour search for love in wartime Manhattan sing, "New York, New York, a helluva town."
The Navy boys’ race against time mirrored the very real frenzy in the city that played host to 3 million...
Travels with Barley
A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer?
Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by...
Managing Strategic Relationships
The Key to Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Contrary to the gospel of a century of management thinkers, the primary job of the manager is no longer to plan, organize, direct, or control, asserts management expert Leonard Greenhalgh. Instead, he argues, today's successful managers are primarily negotiators who are judged on their ability to...
Bounce Back
Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Job loss. Foreclosure. Relationship woes. Health issues. Dire financial straits. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that nobody goes through life unscathed -- no matter how rich, how smart, how talented, or how fortunate they may be. White collar, blue collar, or no collar, there is an...
Great Projects
The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Since the earliest days of the republic, great engineering projects have shaped American landscapes and expressed American dreams. The ambition to build lies as close to the nation's heart as the belief in liberty. We live in a built civilization, connected one to another in an enormous web of technology....