Jennifer Robin: 22 books
Death Confetti
Pickers, Punks, and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
With savage humor, Death Confetti features performance artist Jennifer Robin's autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from the grunge-era obscurity of the '90s to its current media-darling status.
As an only child raised by reclusive grandparents in upstate New York, Jennifer recalls...
by Jennifer Robin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
What’s it like to move to Mexico when you’re unprepared and uninformed? Canadian woman Jennifer Robin Lee shares her story of trying multiple times to relocate to Mexico.
Evolving from a naïve teenager who initially joins a Mexican circus, she provides her gripping tale of overcoming adversity...
No Excuses
How You Can Turn Any Workplace into a Great One
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The business leader's guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work Institute
In this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace. Authors...
The Great Workplace
How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Gold Medal Winner, Human Resources and Employee Training, 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards
Trust, Pride and Camaraderie—transform your company into a "Great Place to Work"
The Great Place to Work Institute develops the annual ranking of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work...
by Jennifer Robin Barr
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this middle-grade historical novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their...
A Life in Balance
Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Are you working more but enjoying it less? Are you searching for greater fulfillment, significance, and meaning? Are you simply looking for a better sense of balance in your life? If you have identified with any of these statements you are not alone. Many of us experience an absence of personal significance...
Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery
Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first Century City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved...
Imaginarium 3
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2013 calendar year.
Featuring Colleen Anderson,...
Farm Workers in Western Canada
Injustices and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
by Jennifer Taylor, Robin Gianna
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Un chirurgien dans le désert, Jennifer Taylor
Une mission humanitaire au fin fond du désert, dans le royaume d’Azad ? Samantha n’hésite pas une seconde à accepter. Elle sait combien son expertise en obstétrique sera utile aux tribus nomades du pays. Et, non, elle n’y est pas poussée par...
Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol. 1: Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.
by Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki, Shai Biderman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western...
Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
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