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many People Experience Grief As The Result Of Loss. This Book Describes What Happens To Us Whenever We Lose Someone Or Something Important. We All Need A Be...

Graveyards tell us a great deal about our country, as Nancy Millar discovered when she toured cemeteries across Canada to explore the history, mysteries, a...

The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. 'Banco' continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed Papillon - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his ...

Burning To Death Is A Hellish Way To Die. Yet Every Year Men And Women Across The Country Risk Their Lives For Low Pay To Fight Forest Fires. Living In Remo...

Omartian shares how wives can develop a deeper relationship with their husbands by praying for them. Packed with practical advice on praying for specific ar...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institution...

Through their focus on children who were successfully learning to read and write despite extraordinary economic hardship, this multiracial team presents n...

A Moving Memoir About Growing Up With A Gay Father In The 1980s, And A Tribute To The Power Of Truth, Humour, Acceptance And Familial Love. Alison Wearing. ...

'Clever, compelling, canine and utterly mesmerising' - Helen Lederer\Stupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of his story.\To love and prot...

Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely Peop...

A National bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no litera...

a Best Friend. A Lost Tooth. A First Day Of School. These Moments Are Milestones Of Childhood That All Boys And Girls Experience. Every Child. Everywhere.l...

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, ...

This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother—a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, m...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

Now re-releasing as a part of the Lives of Faith series, the story of Jim Elliot’s life and martyrdom is one of the great missionary stories of modern tim...

Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achiev...

Guns In America Have A History. The Violence They Cause Came About From A Series Of Decisions. To Reverse Them There Is A Series Of Solutions. This Is Your ...

Racism is pervasive in today's world, and many are complicit in the failure to confront its evils. Jemar Tisby, author of the award-winning The Color of Com...

With Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl Wudunn As Our Guides, We Undertake An Odyssey Through Africa And Asia To Meet The Extraordinary W...

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emergin...

Watch an interview with DJ on CNN Listen to Ralph Savarese's interview on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" Visit the book's website: www.reasonable-people.com...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longe...

Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends ...

"Walk upstairs, open the door, and look in the crib.What do you see: Most of us see a picture of innocence and helplessness, a clean slate. But in fact, wh...

Trained as a zoologist, Desmond Morris now turns his attention to the first twelve months of human life, bringing a new approach to a number of intriguing a...

Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries? There’s no question that globalizatio...

Offers An Updated Definition Of Feminism For The Twenty-first Century, One Rooted In Inclusion And Awareness. In This Essay -- Adapted From Her Tedx Talk Of...

If you’ve ever cringed at the sight of your ten-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation, or struggled to teach your te...

January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party...

Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren’t enough...

My Own Words Is A Selection Of Writings And Speeches By Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Wide-ranging Topics, Including Gender Equality, The Wor...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ...

The Sirius Xm Satellite Host, X Games Skateboarder, And Mma Fighter Shares How He Overcame His Violent Childhood In Australia And His Bout With Addiction, A...

Do you wake up dreading the day? Do you feel ciscouraged with what you've accomplished in life? Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in d...

Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor with Me and White SupremacyAuthor Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people...

An eloquent, dramatic story of an adolescent girl's first glimpse into the problems of prejudice and the redeeming power of friendshipsFOR THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD...

many People Experience Grief As The Result Of Loss. This Book Describes What Happens To Us Whenever We Lose Someone Or Something Important. We All Need A Be...

Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer-but we're almost always wrong. That's important, because if...

Are scrolls containing the secret teachings of Jesus buried in Scotland?The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancien...

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound ...

The Essential Companion Workbook To The National Bestseller Raising Your Spirited Child, In this companion workbook, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka brings reader...

With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally...

In her most affirming and life-changing book yet, Dr. Harriet Lerner teaches us how to restore love and connection with the people who matter the most. In...

Where Will Your Daughter Turn for Answers About Sex? Girls are bombarded with messages about sex–from friends, advertisers, media icons, and more. All of...

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the ...

The bestselling guides for preteens and teens updated with a brand-new look. The Madaras growing-up guides are acknowledged by parents, educators, librari...