Heather: 3162 books
Green Gone Wrong
How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green...
Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban...
by Heather Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
All writers have those days when inspiration just seems to fly out the window—when the blank screen becomes a sadly accurate reflection of the sorry state of your imagination and you start your fourth game of FreeCell in ten minutes. Or you have a day when the current writing project just sits there...
by Heather Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The practical guide to learning the essentials of starting your own business in just one week
Thinking about starting a business? Then Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days is the book for you. Guiding you through the key aspects of getting a new business up and running, from a self assessment...
The Wall Street Diet
The Surprisingly Simple Weight Loss Plan for Hardworking People Who Don't Have Time to Diet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The Wall Street Diet helps readers lose weight, keep it off, and still keep up with their busy lives.
Heather Bauer knows there aren't enough hours in the day for you to focus on the details of a complicated weight loss plan. A registered dietitian with a thriving practice in New York City,...
by Heather Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
As much as we don’t want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. Yet many authors don’t know how to go about it or even where to start. Giving an overview of book marketing, this book is designed to give authors the information they need to attack marketing head on and start successfully selling their books.
Class Warfare
Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed...
Gone Tomorrow
The Hidden Life of Garbage
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review).
Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering...
by Heather McElhatton
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
No so terribly long ago, Heather McElhatton’s flawed, neurotic, yet lovable average American heroine Jennifer Johnson was sick of being single. Now Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Married. The author who brought us the wildly popular Pretty Little Mistakes now favors readers with the next delectably...
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...
After the Imperial Turn
Thinking with and through the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains...
Advanced AutoCAD 2018
Exercise Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The Advanced**AutoCAD® 2018 Exercise Workbook has been helping students, teachers, architects, designers and manufacturers to truly master the software for more than two decades. And now this work is better than ever, with the inclusion of both inch and metric measurements side-by-side.
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The Hoods
Crime and Punishment in Belfast
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior....
by Heather McGregor, Mrs Moneypenny
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Get a money makeover from the legendary FT columnist, Mrs Moneypenny, author of Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women.
Why do personal finances present such a hurdle for women? And what can we do about it?
In her bestselling book Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious...