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The Path to Purpose
Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Drawing on the revelatory results of a landmark study, William Damon -- one of the country's leading writers on the lives of young people, whose book Greater Expectations won the Parents' Choice Award -- brilliantly investigates the most pressing issue in the lives of youth today: why so many young...
Pieces of Intelligence
The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Donald Rumsfeld is not just a two-time Secretary of Defence, former CEO, former White House Chief of Staff, and the most outspoken and forceful civilian military leader in recent American history. He is also, intentionally or not, a poet. At last, the ubiquitous and at times unintelligible U.S. Secretary...
by Jay Luvaas
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Napoleon. The passage of time has not dimmed the power of his name. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world. Yet unlike Machiavelli, Clausewitz, or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work. The subject of thousands of...
Shame
The Exposed Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1995
Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion....
What Kids Buy
The Psychology of Marketing to Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
If you're in the business of marketing or developing products and programs for kids, What Kids Buy and Why belongs in your office.
How can you create outstanding products and programs that will win in the marketplace and in the hearts of kids and parents? Dan S. Acuff and Robert H. Reiher have...
The Way of Go
8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
For centuries, business, political, and military leaders throughout Asia have had a secret weapon for success -- the philosophies and strategies found in an ancient game called Go.
Now, Troy Anderson, an entrepreneur, knowledge management expert, Fortune 500 management consultant, and one of only...
by Milton Rokeach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values.
The Drama Years
Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Today’s middle school girls have it rough.
In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative—and riskiest—time in their lives. Groups turn on each other, a trusted childhood friend can reveal secrets by sending...
Big Cats
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome...
A Vanished World
Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture.
In 711, a ragtag army...
Candy and Me
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin...
The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
The Dangerous Passion
Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities...
by David Finkelhor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Based on a large-scale survey and in light of demographic and cultural factors, the author examines why children are sexually victimized, the sources of trauma, differences between reported and unreported cases of assault, and possible increases in sexual victimization.