Eric: 6009 books
by Eric Cheyfitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influences...
by Eric Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Award-winning creativity coach and therapist, Eric Maisel, offers the A Little Every Day Deck series to help readers develop a more centered, creative, intelligent life. Each card in the series presents a single idea and a simple exercise to try every day. Readers can use the decks in a variety of ways....
Canoeing with the Cree
75th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In 1930 two novice paddlers—Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port—launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over...
The Van Gogh Blues
The Creative Persons Path Through Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Creative people will experience depression — that’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of...
Why Smart People Hurt
A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The challenges smart and creative people encounter—from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics— often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair.
Specifically, Dr. Maisel examines:
“racing...
Against Happiness
In Praise of Melancholy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling...
by Eric Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
You Make the Difference speaks directly to those of us who find ourselves preoccupied with the sheer effort of coping with life's many demands and who long for real answers, inner security, and self-fulfillment. Eric Butterworth's wise and inspiring book provides us with guidance for living life to...
Love & Theft
Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated...
by Eric Sloane
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
School days, like our everydays, have changed. But the obsolete world of the one-room schoolhouse filled with rough-hewn desks still lingers. The echoes of yesteryear live on in the old-fashioned classrooms that still stand today.
Harkening back to a time when the three Rs actually stood for reading,...
by Eric Hobsbawm
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
İki dünya savaşı ve ardından yaşanan Soğuk Savaş'ın damgasını vurduğu "Kısa Yirminci Yüzyıl"ın bitiminin habercisi, Sovyetler Birliği'nin çöküşü ile serbest piyasa fundamentalizminin iflası oldu. Bu yüzyılda kapitalist ekonominin sıkça yaşadığı krizlere, 90'lardaki...
A Chinaman's Chance
One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed...
by Eric Cahm
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey...
Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood
Firsthand Advice, Tips and Stories from Lesbian and Gay Couples
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Same-sex couples are faced with many different options when choosing to have children today. In Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood, author, activist and father Eric Rosswood guides and helps prospective LGBT parents to explore these five popular options: Adoption, Foster Care, Assisted Reproduction, Surrogacy...
Xunzi
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi articulates a Confucian perspective on ethics,...