Shirley Shirley: 1496 books

The New Imperatives of Educational Change is a clarion call to move beyond the standardized testing and marketplace competition that have become pervasive in school systems to focus instead on creating the conditions that will encourage all students to become critical and independent thinkers. Dennis...

You are invited to join in a celebration of life and a renewed meaning and significance for the “second half” of your life. It is never too late to find your purpose and continue growing—spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, relationally and vocationally. Jerry and Shirley Rose share life...

Here is a hard rock memoir – essentially an authorized bio on the endearing British rock band Humble Pie – as told from the drum throne and backstage hallways during the emerging days of the Seventies classic rock era. In 1969, Jerry Shirley was chosen to drum in a new band led by Steve Marriott...

Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate...

A step by step art book that explores the garden as a source of inspiration. A typical haven yields more than one may first expect, from allotments, deckchairs and swings to pets, hanging baskets and fishponds. The only other essential ingredient is sunlight. Taken from my art instruction...

How do I complete my first oil painting step by step? This book outlines 20 achievable oil painting demonstrations for the beginner featuring landscape art from the simple to the more challenging (taken from my hardback Oil Paintings from the Landscape published by GMC Publications 2003) Find...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews).   Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest...

This in depth painting demonstration explores a tailored approach in achieving sfumato effects when painting Leonardo da Vinci’s the Mona Lisa in oils. To be included within my forthcoming book, Skin Tones in Oil: 10 Step by Step Guides from Old Masters, available soon, this painting project...

This book is a non-fiction self improvement book for those that want to build and have a healthier relationship. It will give men an insight into the mind of a woman and how she feels, her interactions with him in building a healthy relationship. It will also give women a more broad perspective...

Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard’s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by...

Forty years ago, thousands of Milwaukee residents marched for equal rights to join and participate in local organizations, receive equal and appropriate educational resources for their children, and live where they wanted. Thus, the purpose of the book, Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi...

Don't stop smoking. I really don't care. I'm not your mother. I'm not here to nag you. You already know all the bad effects why should I rehash it? If you want to quit this short to the point book will show you the way. And if you don't want to quit. Never going to happen.

Many of us do not know or do now utilize the power of our thinking, our mind. This short e-book suggests how to use our collective minds to have peace on Earth.

"We must have walked a thousand miles," wrote my grandfather, Ernst Oscar Werner, about his family’s journey from Siberia to Danzig in 1918–1919. This ethnic German family, who had lived in Ukraine and Russia for three generations, survived war, exile, typhus, and privations and immigrated to...