Sharon: 4072 books
by Sharon Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Written by Sharon Kaye, who is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free...
Dreaming in Dark Times
Six Exercises in Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom?
Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political...
Selling with Soul
Achieving Career Success Without Sacrificing Personal and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
The ability to sell yourself and your ideas may be the most essential skill for achieving business success. Even so, society demeans selling and salespeople, perpetuating stereotypes that make us cringe. In Selling with Soul, author Sharon V. Parker attacks those attitudes head-on and explodes the...
An Image of God
The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of “unfit” members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages,...
Women and Socialism
Essays on Women's Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women’s liberation struggle, yet women remain second-class citizens. Feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s. This collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, badly needed today.
Women and Socialism...
Terminal Hope
What Cancer Taught Me About Living and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How can anyone feel hopeful after learning she is fatally ill? Sharon Eagle seeks to answer that very question in Terminal Hope, which chronicles her experience with stage 4 lung cancer. After receiving her diagnosis, Eagle, a longtime nurse and educator, understands immediately that her cancer will...
by Sharon Olds
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The poems are impelled by a passion to know and a freedom to follow wherever the truth...
And a Time to Die
How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Most Americans, when pressed, have a vague sense of how they would like to die. They may imagine a quick and painless end or a gentle passing away during sleep. Some may wish for time to prepare and make peace with themselves, their friends, and their families. Others would prefer not to know what's...
Phoenix
The Life of Norman Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada....
Once and Future Giants
What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas,...
Can't Just Stop
An Investigation of Compulsions
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Using in-depth case studies to explore how we grapple with compulsion in ourselves and those we love, Can’t Just Stop examines the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—“a fascinating read about human behavior and how it can go haywire” (The Charlotte Observer).
Whether...
Awakening Ashley
Mozart Knocks Autism on Its Ear
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
At eighteen months, Ashley Ruben still didnt talk. She wouldnt respond when her name was called; she didnt appear to hear either. She fixated on tiny pieces of dirt and ate only crunchy foods. She was enveloped in a thick fogimpenetrable by everyone except Barney the Dinosaur. She worked puzzles like...
by Sharon Maas
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Thirty years of family secrets. Three generations of women. One family heirloom that could change everything.
When she ran away from her childhood home in Guyana, Rika swore that she would never return. Cut off from her family, she has fought hard to make a life for herself and daughter, Inky,...
by Sharon O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
“Sustain me.”
Two words flung into the heights of heaven out of the depths of King David’s anguished, sin-broken heart thousands of years ago. I read them sitting at my desk surrounded by donor letters and marketing materials at my job. I was dwelling on my own version of impending distress....