Judith: 2966 books
Payback
Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yells at his children:...
by Judith Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1978
Judith Williamson does not simply criticize advertisements on the grounds of dishonesty and exploitation, but examines in detail, through over a hundred illustrations, their undoubted attractiveness and appeal. The overt economic function of this appeal is to make us buy things. Its ideological function...
by Judith Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1988
Judith Williamson explores how our cultural tastes, in films, food, television, advertising, music poetry, song lyrics,photography,political movements and even the BritishRoyal Family influence our thinking and how we govern our own lives, and shape those of our children
Army at Home
Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male...
Taking the Stage
How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Many women today wonder: what will it take to get that seat at the boardroom table? Earn that coveted promotion? Or simply have their voices heard? Taking the Stage provides a comprehensive, proven approach that enables women to come forward into the spotlight and speak up, stand out, and succeed.
Based...
Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Crisis Korea
European Investors and 'Mismatched Globalization'
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
In this book Judith Cherry analyses the impact of economic and cultural globalization on efforts to promote inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) in South Korea over the past four decades. The book traces the development of Korean IFDI policy from one of restriction and control to one of encouragement...
by Judith Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
China's huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet.
In the second edition of this acclaimed, trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China's...
by Derek B. Hankerson, Judith Y. Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
G.A. Henry defended a slave in court, but years later he fought for the Confederacy. The question is why?
Continuing the creative nonfiction narrative she began in her first book, All Bones Be White, Judith Shearer--whose family owned slaves--teams up with Derek Boyd Hankerson--some of whose...
Awakening the Miracle of You
Affirmations for your life
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
You are a miracle waiting to happen.
When everyday life seems tiring, unfulfilling or just plain hard, it can be almost impossible to believe that anything will change. Life is so full of tasks to be ticked off that finding a moment of peace, let alone living a spiritual life, may never figure...
by Judith Willis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
While there is some debate on where the practice of reflexology originated, there is little argument about its effectiveness as a natural form of treatment.
The term “reflexology” has its roots in two Latin words, “acus” meaning needle and "pressura" meaning pressure. The...
by Judith Ryan Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Wyn Morrison’s world a 5 A.M. phone call is rarely good news. It usually means equipment trouble at her bakery or a first shift employee calling in sick—something annoying but mundane, fixable. But the news she receives on a warm July morning is anything but mundane. Or fixable.Mac,...
Do You Remember Me?
A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In her award-winning Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically disturbed our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, the poignantly personal Do You Remember Me? tackles the other end of life. The book is both the memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia...
Standing in Their Own Light
African American Patriots in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...