Nancy Hill: 16 books

Create the flower garden of your dreams. This comprehensive guide includes expert advice on everything from choosing an appropriate growing site to maximizing the lifespan of your plants. Charming illustrations and photographs accompany helpful tips on how to improve soil, fight off pests, and make...

Unfolding is a book women want to share with each other - mothers, daughters, sisters and friends - because it reflects and leads back to their own wise self. Unfolding speaks to a woman’s heart not her intellect. Some books are about information. For example, they tell you how far it is to the...

Starved Rock State Park is located midway between Ottawa and LaSalle. The park has more than 2,630 acres that include 18 beautiful canyons and waterfalls. One of the largest Native American encampments, the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia was located near Starved Rock. Fr. Jacques Marquette and Louis...

The book “The Ultimate Leader: 25 Amazing Skills Every Ultimate Leader Should Have” provides you the right guidance to be an effective leader in your enviroment. Whether you wish to work as a leader in your office or for the country, these qualities will help you reach the top. All the qualities...

More than 65 million adults in the U.S., or 1 out of every 3 adults, suffer from high blood pressure. And yet, what many do not know is that high blood pressure can actually be prevented, or lowered, if you follow a healthy eating plan that is focused on reducing sodium intake and consuming a wide...

Maybe you’re looking to lose weight and get in shape, or maybe you simply want to get healthier and feel better. Whatever your goal is, you’re not alone. In 2014, the Paleo diet was the most googled health diet in 2014, and there are many well-known people who swear by it – A-list celebrities,...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Richmond Hill evolved after the Civil War on land where orchards once blossomed and cattle once grazed. Nestled in the shadow of New York City, it is one of the city's first planned communities. The Victorian era saw the construction of Queen Anne-style mansions, and the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge...

Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...

And on the Eighth Day God Created Beer. Beer is what separates humans from animals… unless you have too much. Seriously, anthropologists, archeologists, and sociologists seem to think that when humans first emerged on earth as human, they possessed fire, language, a sense of spirituality,...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic....

A carefully curated selection of articles about persuasion and influence from Harvard Business Review. Highly curated collections of HBR articles The science behind popular concepts Practical how-to’s for approaching difficult work situations Uplifting, affirming essays about human emotion Audience:...

Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, edited by Thomas Maty-k, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne, discusses critical issues in the emerging field of Peace and Conflict Studies, and suggests a framework for the future development of the field and the education...