A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive, Zora Neale Hurston published seven books, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Today, nearly every black woman writer of significance -- including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice [...]
The author of Conversations with God addresses common questions about how to understand and recognize God's intentions while earning a place in heaven, discussing the often disparate beliefs of numerous religions while suggesting universal truths. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.[...]
A compassionate spiritual meditation on the process of death and dying, written by the author of the popular Conversations with God series, offers counsel on how to draw wisdom and peace of mind throughout the process, which is explained as the beginning of an "after life" in God's kingdom. Reprint.[...]
At a time when kids have more debt and temptation than ever comes a completely revised and updated edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller on teaching children aged three to twenty about money Money Doesn't Grow on Trees is the book that parents turn to when it comes to teaching their children a[...]
"This is a life-altering book. It contains New Revelations. It provides the tools with which to pull ourselves out of despair, lifting the whole human race to a new level of experience, to a new understanding of life itself, to a new expression of its grandest vision."
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Furnishing an outline for a new form of spirituality, the best-selling author of Conversations with God creates a question-and-answer dialogue between the author and God in which he describes a new form of spirituality that will enhance each individual's life and discusses such topics as sex, relati[...]
Furnishing an outline for a new form of spirituality, the best-selling author of Conversations with God creates a question-and-answer dialogue between the author and God in which he describes a new form of spirituality that will enhance each individual's life and discusses such topics as sex, relati[...]
This text offers empirical material and theoretical analysis in order to try and give a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies.[...]
"Emotional Intelligence Coaching" examines the vital role emotions and habits play in performance. Emotional intelligence can help leaders and coaches recognize how attitudes - both their own and those of the people they coach - prevent individuals from reaching their potential. Replacing these with[...]
In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged. Here Barbara Ladd offers powerful new readings of three southern[...]
"'Courage' is the last word that Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her letters. And Hurston's courage is what Virginia Lynn Moylan documents in this moving and meticulously researched account of the end of Hurston's life."--Anna Lillios, author of "Crossing the Creek""Moylan's account of Hurston's last de[...]
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds ...'For me, THEIR EYES WERE W[...]
"Magnesium Technology 2006" presents papers related to primary production and market; recycling and environmental issues; alloy development; phase transformations; manufacturing processes; mechanical and physical properties; cast and wrought alloys; welding and joining; corrosion and surface finishi[...]
Covers a wide variety of areas, including recycling and environmental, casting and solidification, wrought alloys and forming processes, welding and joining, corrosion and coatings, automotive and other applications, microstructure and properties, thermodynamics and fundamental research, and alloy d[...]
"Magnesium Technology 2008" presents all aspects of magnesium production, properties and application, including primary production, alloy development, performance and the global market. This comprehensive book includes sections on wrought alloys; thermodynamics and phase transformations; casting; al[...]
This book presents the state-of-the-art of carbon dioxide metallurgical reduction and decreased use of carbon. Readers will find papers concerning the efficient reduction of carbon dioxide and properly tailoring extractive metallurgical techniques to improve fuel self-sufficiency in a cost-effective[...]
This book covers energy conservation and new technologies needed within the materials field for today's climate of high energy costs and environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Also included in this book are papers from the second symposium on carbon dioxide reduction metallurgy. Th[...]
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Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Blunt, shocking and sometimes profane, this exciting book blasts self-help and feel-good remedies to expose the lies with which we imprison ourselves. It talks straight, hard and true to the heart of the human condition, pulling no punches. It gives us simple yet revolutionary tools to break out of [...]