Sylvia: 1490 books
by Sylvia Berger
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Having spent over half a century on this intriguing and, sometimes, challenging planet, I have witnessed many technological and societal changes. I have seen fashions come and go...and come again...witnessed the advent of computers and mobile phones.I’ve watched record albums shrink into little...
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake
Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
According to the Buddha, the path of kindness is the path of happiness. Now Sylvia Boorstein, nationally bestselling author of It’s Easier Than You Think, has taken the 2500-year-old practice of developing the qualities of a compassionate heart—the core of the Buddha’s own practice—and made...
by Sylvia Boorstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Taken from Sylvia Boorstein’s influential contribution to Solid Ground , Boorstein invites readers to see things exactly the way they are, no matter how difficult.
Auras, Chakras, and Energy Fields
What They Are to You and How Your Angels and Guides Work Through Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
"Auras, Chakras, and Energy Fields: What They Are To You and How Your Angels and Guides Work Through Them" is a quick-read.
British vs. American spelling, grammar, and punctuation are used in this book.
Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health are all reflected in...
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?
By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate...
by Sylvia Longmire
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in...
The Colossus
and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five,"...
The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In...
by Sylvia Tara, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A biochemist shows how we can finally control our fat—by understanding how it works.
Fat is not just excess weight, but actually a dynamic, smart, and self-sustaining organ that influences everything from aging and immunity to mood and fertility. With cutting-edge research and riveting case...
The Balanced Horse
The Aids By Feel, Not Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Inspired by the time-honoured traditions of the Classical World, Sylvia's desire to protect the horse is reflected in her training methods, which concentrate on a balanced seat and quiet aiding. She abhors the use of force and gadgetry in the schooling of horses and believes that Classical riding...
The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays
The Collected Works of a Misunderstood Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business of getting on with life. In an attempt to aspire to a so-called higher life, many of us fear both death and youth, reaching for perfection through the...
Everything Is Possible
A Nurse’S Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Everything is Possible: A Nurses Memoir recounts the personal and professional life of a woman who is daughter, mother, nurse, wife, friend, educator, scholar and mentor through decades that span the second half of the twentieth century and reaches into the new millennium. In her own words, Sylvia...
The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill
The Untold Story of Arthur Shores and His Family’s Fight for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings...
Just Ask Us
A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children.
For First Nations in particular, the issue has become critical. Aboriginal girls...