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Being Catholic Now

Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning

by Kerry Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008

For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace. As an adult, she came to question some of the attitudes and teachings of the Catholic Church while remaining an impassioned believer in its role...

Antarctica 2041

My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness

by Robert Swan, Gil Reavill
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009

Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity. In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica,...

On the Water

Discovering America in a Row Boat

by Nathaniel Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002

“I take a stroke and lean back, gazing up into the jet skies, bejeweled by the moon and the galaxies of stars. The hull glides in silence and with such perfect balance as to report no motion. I sit up for another stroke, now looking down as the blades ignite swirling pairs of white constellations...

Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles

Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening

by Ellen Sandbeck
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010

Off with their heads! Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that the all-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective...

Switching Time

A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

by Richard Baer
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007

"[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery." -- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris Complex In 1989, Karen Overhill walks...

Passing for Normal

A Memoir of Compulsion

by Amy S. Wilensky
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

"What I remember even more distinctly than the incidents of cruelty and confusion, intolerance and avoidance--more vividly than standing in front of the mirror watching my head move with no conscious instruction from me--is the strain of trying to conceal my tics and rituals from others, especially...

Cancer Talk

Voices of Hope and Endurance from The Group Room, the World's Largest Cancer Sup port Group

by Selma R. Schimmel, Barry Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010

For the first time, Cancer Talk provides a support group in a book. Research shows that cancer patients who attend support groups can survive longer and lead fuller lives than patients receiving medical treatment alone. Cancer Talk, based on "The Group Room®," the nation's only talk-radio...

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania

by Warren St. John
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving...

Ever By My Side

A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

by Nick Trout
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011

“The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck.” —Dr. Nick Trout * * New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated readers by taking...

Inside the Animal Mind

A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence

by George Page
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2001

In the bestselling tradition of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Don't Lie About Love, Inside the Animal Mind is a groundbreaking exploration of the nature and depth of animal intelligence. While in the past scientists have refused to acknowledge that animals have anything like human intelligence,...

Homework for Grown-ups

Everything You Learnt at School...and Promptly Forgot

by E. Foley, B. Coates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009

A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old after all! Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind...

No Pity

People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

by Joseph P. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

Rachel and Her Children

Homeless Families in America

by Jonathan Kozol
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness." THE BOSTON GLOBE There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you...

Veiled Courage

Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

by Cheryl Benard
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002

In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why...
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