Sharon: 4072 books
Irish Travellers
The Unsettled Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades...
by Sharon Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This inspiring collection pays tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson. Jackie¹s daughter, Sharon, acts as a personal tour guide through the nine heartfelt, hard-won values that helped her father achieve his goals. Jackie¹s values are brought to life through the powerful...
8 Crazy Beliefs That Screw Up Your Life. Change These Beliefs and Become a Healthier, Happier Person
8 Crazy Beliefs That Screw Up Your Life. Change These Beliefs and Become a Healthier, Happier Person
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Our beliefs about ourselves, others and the world in which we live have a profound effect on the quality of our lives. Beliefs often develop without our knowledge or approval. Our perceptions and interpretations can become fixed entities to which we strongly attach and which we fiercely protect. Our...
The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum
An Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important new book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her colleagues focus on the more than 2 million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age 5 participating in nonparental care. Providing the most thorough synthesis of current research on the early care...
Innovation Age Learning
Empowering Students by Empowering Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Ready or not, education has entered the Innovation Age, where it’s not about what students know but what they can do with what they know. Teachers can prepare students thrive in the Innovation Age by teaching them at three levels, closing the learning environment gap, and systematically infusing technology....
by Sharon Rose Mayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Set before the events of Blood Pact, Riley is serving community service at a local soup kitchen and begins to make a new friend. But there is something different about Ellis and Riley just can't put her finger on it, until events force Ellis and Riley to reveal themselves to each other.This is a short story set in the Blood Pact world.
by Sharon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
A tool for parents, teachers and homeschoolers to assist preschool and kindergarten students in matching and vocabulary building with creative word play.
The Dog's Guide to Your Happiness
Seven Secrets for a Better Life from Man's Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
How do we define happiness in a world where people regularly feel rushed, stressed, and overwhelmed by the daily demands of life? Authors Garry McDaniel and Sharon Massen suggest that we look to our canine companions to learn what happiness is really about. Based on the authors’ research and insights...
Power of the Talking Stick
Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalisation, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life...
Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Windows 2000 Pro combines the friendly interface of Windows 98 with the famous stability of Windows NT. Windows 2000, the successor to NT, introduces many technologies that weren't available in NT, including Plug-and-Play, support for USB devices, power management features, and more. It's 25% faster...
Leaving Prostitution
Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
While street prostitutes comprise
only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical
and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization,
which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings.
Exiting the trade can be a...
Cohabitation Nation
Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation
Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to...
Breaking the Argument Cycle
How to Stop Fighting Without Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Revealing where the real conflict lies in a relationship—and resolving it* Breaking the Argument Cycle is a book for all those who’ve ever found themselves arguing with their significant other, again and again, about money, sex, or even a seemingly trivial topic—when, at its core, the conflict...
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
The Corporate Capture of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.*BR**BR*Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign,...