Laurie: 1609 books
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism
Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a huge role in helping toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) connect with others and live up to their potential. This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical...
by Laurie Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
A book of hope through the journey of foreclosure and after. A journey most of us would never have chosen, and yet many have experienced, which in some cases, leads to a place one never would have expected.
Battling the Plantation Mentality
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the...
Lord, Look Inside My Heart
Engaging in the Joy of Our Role in Sanctification
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Sometimes we are scared to look within. This book is designed to help you with the very sensitive task of tending to your heart. Laurie gently walks us through this engaging, interactive process with the Lord to completely transform our hearts. After all, we might not like what we find there. We might...
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago’s Loop, is surrounded by some of the city’s finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country.
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses readers in the lives of...
by Michelle Ditton, Laurie A. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The ABC’s of Sexual Assault provides a solid foundation of knowledge for every member of a Sexual Assault Response Team (law enforcement officers, child protection case managers, prosecutors, victim advocates, medical and mental health professionals, and forensic interviewers). This book is designed...
The Bust DIY Guide to Life
Making Your Way Through Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Get the know-how to do it yourself: “This lifestyle manual will come in handy when you need anything from a headache remedy to a dirt-cheap wedding.” —Entertainment Weekly
The modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY...
Kiss The Sunset Pig
A Canadian's American Road Trip With Exotic Detours
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
In this lyrical, poetic, and charmingly funny book, Laurie Gough drives from Ontario to California reflecting on a life spent travelling in search of new experiences and familiar sensations. Heading towards a half-remembered cave on the Pacific coast where her younger, more adventurous self once stayed,...
Locke and Rousseau
Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Laurie Johnson investigates two Enlightenment-era reactions to honor in Locke and Rousseau. She provides an in-depth analysis of how political philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau react differently to the place and importance of honor in society. Locke continues the trend of rejecting...
We Kill Because We Can
From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control...
A Protestant Purgatory
Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many...
The Thomas Code
Solving the mystery of the Gospel of Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
An enigmatic manuscript. A secret lost for 2,000 years. The discovery that shines new light on Christianity.
Jesus said: “I have cast fire upon the world…”
The Thomas Code uncovers and explains the mathematical secret of the Gospel of Thomas. This fascinating book takes the reader...
Emily Carr's B.C.
Northern B.C. & Haida Gwaii
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Journalist Laurie Carter caught a tiger by the tail when she set out to retrace the epic journeys of Emily Carr, delving into the life, landscapes and First Nations traditions that shaped an icon. She too has trekked more than 20,000 kilometres, though in greater comfort and probably raising fewer...
by Lindsay Laurie
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
If you enjoy a good laugh from a punchline then I am sure you will get a kick out of these poems.