Susan: 10531 books
Can't Catch a Break
Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can’t Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and...
The Five Keys to Mindful Communication
Using Deep Listening and Mindful Speech to Strengthen Relationships, Heal Confli cts, and Accomplish Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Good communiation is essential to any healthy relationship, whether it's between spouses, family members, friends, or co-workers. In this book Susan Chapman, a marriage and family therapist and a longtime meditation teacher, explains how mindfulness can be brought to bear in the way we speak and listen...
The Winter of Our Disconnect
How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more.
When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest...
Frog Hollow
Stories from an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Frog Hollow: Stories from an American Neighborhood is a collection of colorful historical vignettes of an ethnically diverse neighborhood just west of the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford. Its 1850s row houses have been home to a wide variety of immigrants. During the Revolutionary War, Frog...
Waste and Want
A Social History of Trash
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life--throwing things out--and how it has transformed American society.
Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns...
by Susan Gilson Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian Susan Gilson Miller, offers a richly documented survey of modern Moroccan history. Arguing that pragmatism...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world.
From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often...
by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s...
Essential Oils For Weight Loss: A Simple Guide and Introduction to Aromatherapy
Essential Aromatherapy Oils For Natural Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Essential Aromatherapy Oils For Natural Weight Loss
Many people are turning to alternatives to weight loss and looking for ways to assist themselves with losing weight without spending a lot of money. Utilizing synergistic methods for weight loss can provide the most reliable benefits.
The...
by Susan A. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Buddy Boy my adorable Bichon Frise, with the biggest heart a dog could have, almost broke my heart. He wondered off into the unfamliar, freezing cold bushland of Quebec, Canada and became lost. Swirling, sinister mist, sheet ice underfoot and a useless car encapsuled in ice, made the search almost impossible. Only a miracale would lead me to where he waited so patiently to be found.
The Natural Soap Book
Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
Making your own soap is fun, easy, and rewarding. In this introductory guide, Susan Miller Cavitch shows you how to craft your own all-natural, wonderfully smelling soaps. Illustrated directions take you through the whole process, from buying supplies to cutting the final bars. With easy-to-follow...
by Susan McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Simplify housetraining for you and your pup!Beginning to think your dog is as much work as a child? You're right. Both need training and structure. Find out how to use encourage-ment and positive reinforcement to successfully housetrain your new pup or older dog. Author Susan McCullough provides inventive...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.
In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion...
Throw Me a Bone
50 Healthy, Canine Taste-Tested Recipes for Snacks, Meals, and Treats
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Cooper Gillespie, an extremely intelligent and handsome Welsh springer spaniel, is a dog of discriminating taste and strong opinions. Now Cooper, with the assistance of cookbook author Sally Sampson and the transcription services of his favorite human, Susan Orlean, has put together 50 delectable...