Susan Barry: 15 books
Dying to Be Perfect
A Mother's Story of Her Son's Battle with Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Calling upon the same inner strength and faith that got her through her son TJ’s tragic death at age 22, Susan Barry decided to share their story. Complete with photographs, poems and journals from TJ’s personal lockbox, the result is a gift to the families and friends of those suffering the terrible...
Adventure on the High Sea!
A Family's Sailing Voyage Across the Atlantic.
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
"Adventure on the High Sea! A Familys Sailing voyage Across the Atlantic" is a true story for young readers ages 8 to 13 but should also appeal to a parents sense of adventure. A young girl and her family set out for the adventure opportunity of a lifetime. Its an exciting story about a...
Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree...
by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont, Laura Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits: Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence (9780137047659) by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont and Laura Watkins. Available in print and digital formats. Why mission and...
by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont, Laura Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This Element is an excerpt from Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits: Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence (9780137047659) by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont and Laura Watkins. Available in print and digital formats. How to manage both the predictable and unpredictable challenges...
American Corrections
Concepts and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
American Corrections, Second Edition offers you a contemporary, issues-oriented introduction that covers every aspect of corrections, prompting you to think critically about complex issues that are affecting the current U.S. correctional system. Incorporating the most recent theory, research, and...
Concepts of Nature
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or...
Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits
Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
For nonprofits leadership transitions are a time of exceptionally high risk. Here, three internationally-respected experts show how to systematically identify, introduce, support, and monitor leaders in ways that enhance rather than undermine their performance. They explain why leadership transitions...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
by Barry Tomalin, Susan Stempleski
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This very popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, together with resource ideas and materials for the classroom.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
Energize Your Leadership
Discover, Ignite, Break Through
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Energize Your Leadership springs from a collaboration of 16 leaders from around the world who came together online. They recognized a lack of energy, excitement and sense of purpose in the leaders they interact with each day. As they explored ways to help these disengaged, overwhelmed and discouraged...
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