Elaine: 1438 books
by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) with a new foreword—and available as an ebook for the first time—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors.
Internationally acclaimed experts on communication...
The Highly Sensitive Child
Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of “high sensitivity” in children–and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers.
With the publication of The Highly Sensitive...
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love
Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are “too sensitive”? Do you struggle to respect a less-sensitive partner? Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its wounds?
Statistics show that 50 percent of what determines...
Beyond Belief
The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy.
Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group...
Revelations
Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief.
Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As...
A Taste of Power
A Black Woman's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers...
by Elaine Sciolino
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
**A New York Times Bestseller
"Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris—the city of light, of literature, of life itself." —The New Yorker**
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite...
by Elaine Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2010
Come to a Spiritual Plane Where Endless Knowledge Can Be Acquired Just By Being There.The Perfect Place is a supernatural plane of existence where knowledge is literally in the air. The place truly seems perfect—with no evil or need—only the pursuit of learning. What question would you ask Plato...
Head Cases
Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative...
Midlife Happy Hour
Our Reward for Surviving Careers, Kids and Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Humor. 5-Star Review from Foreword Clarion Reviews. Winner of 2017 Independent Press Award for Midlife. Named a "Distinguished Favorite" for Humor from the 2017 Independent Press Awards.Bestselling author Elaine Ambrose offers a sequel to...
Ku-Klux
The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy....
by Elaine Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Cowslips and Chainies is a poignant memoir of childhood in 1930s and early '40s Dublin. Best-selling novelist Elaine Crowley's account of tenement life is by turns hilarious and intensely sad. Her beloved, consumptive father – generous, handsome and fickle – works at the local undertakers. Her...
Anna of All the Russias
A Life of Anna Akhmatova
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose...
by Elaine Shuel
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
"The Love Doctor", an online advice columnist, falls for a lonely widower.