Karen: 6616 books
by Karen F. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Healing in the Hurting Places is a personal experience story and outreach for victims of childhood sexual abuse, and those who want to help them. It sensitively focuses on the healing journey—how to recognize symptoms of abuse and offer help. Victims often feel alone, they don’t know where...
Crash
Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash...
Decoration Day in the Mountains
Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
by Karen Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Karen Connelly’s first collection of poetry since The Border Surrounds Us, the poet offers up a searing, complex portrayal of her troubled family. Refracted, augmented, drawn through various cities, streets and fields, over mountain ranges and foreign landscapes, this portrayal grows into an...
Even the Odds
Sensible Risk-Taking in Business, Investing, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all agree it plays a pivotal role in guiding us toward an optimal outcome. As a long-time investment advisor,...
The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl
Real-Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A useful and fun book for any woman who has ever wanted, needed, lost, quit, hated, or loved a job. Working Girl” (a.k.a. Karen Burns) has held a total of 59 jobs (so far), including housekeeper, cigarette girl, paper boy”, model, ditch-digger, bank teller, editor, brochure writer, artist,...
Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight
Fifty-Two Amazing Ways to Master the Art of Personal Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Do you wish something in your life was different? Take heart! You already possess the first and most important ingredient for change. Don’t waste your dissatisfaction, wield it!
Intimate, humorous, and inspiring, Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight will take you on a journey from where you...
The Wealth of Nations
A modern-day interpretation of an economic classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
"Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Published in 1776, "The Wealth of Nations" was originally released for a very specific audience; the British Parliament, setting clearly defined arguments for peace and co-operation...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...
Irene Rice Pereira
Her Paintings and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imagery. Yet her artistic philosophy and innovative imagery...
The Secrets of Successful Coaches
10 Steps to Develop a Winning Business Mindset
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Every year, thousands of people train to be a life, business or executive coach but struggle to make a living. Although attracted to the profession, they are forced to give up as they cannot find enough clients to pay the bills. Even great coaches can not create the business they crave without the...
Book Marketing Made Simple
A Practical Guide to Selling, Promoting and Launching Your Business Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
There has never been a better time for coaches, consultants, and therapists to write and publish a business book. With a great idea, a clear strategy, and a well-formed marketing plan, your book will help you to build your business and attract more clients.
Your book may be a manual, textbook,...
The Square
Enter At Your Own Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Alice Goodman has been forbidden from entering Tavistock Square for as long as she can remember but, now aged fifteen, the place looks tempting. Will she listen to her nana's warnings and steer clear or is she destined to make the same mistakes as her drunken, violent mother? Karen Woods returns to familiar territory for her 12th novel to weave a tale of deceit, child abuse and desperation.