Carolyn: 2852 books
Have Fun & Get A's
How to Study Less and Achieve More
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
High school students are experiencing more pressure and stress than ever before. How can parents and teachers help them succeed not just in school, but in life? Author and university teacher Carolyn Zhao knows from experience that the answer isn’t just to stay up later and study harder. It is...
Hormone Balance
A Woman's Guide to Restoring Health and Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Mood swings. Weight gain. Fatigue.
And that’s just on your good days. Your hormones are out of whack—and you don’t know what to do next. With Hormone Balance as your guide, you’ll call on both traditional and alternative solutions to get you off that hormonal rollercoaster for good. No matter...
Stress, Coping, and Development, Second Edition
An Integrative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
How do people cope with stressful experiences? What makes a coping strategy effective for a particular individual? This volume comprehensively examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. Carolyn M. Aldwin...
Creating Market Socialism
How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people—rather than state or market elites—in creating new...
Reinventing Eden
The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword.
Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Science and Nature
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Science and Nature brings together the work and insights of historian Carolyn Merchant on the history of science, environmental history, and ethics. The book explores her ideas about the interconnections among science, women, nature, and history as they have emerged over her academic lifetime. Focusing...
Hanging Ruth Blay
An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby.
On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth’s...
by Carolyn Neilson, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
This is the ultimate guide to the latest non-surgical methods to enhance one’s appearance. Written by a plastic surgeon’s nurse, it advises readers what to do instead of getting liposuction, facelifts, tummy tucks, etc. Contains reviews of popular procedures and products, like the Dermaroller and red LED light therapy, so readers won’t waste money on things that don’t work.
Violence in the Lives of Black Women
Battered, Black, and Blue
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Break the silence surrounding Black women's experiences of violence!
Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue sheds new light on an understudied field. For too long, Black...
Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling
Ideologies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and...
How Soon Is Now?
Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal...
by Carolyn McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Hi! My name is Barb Hoxsie. I live in Spotsburg, Michigan, which is a little spot in the palm of the mitten, as we Michiganders are wont to say. Somehow I get myself mixed up in mayhem and even, on one occasion, a murder. And thanks to my intelligence, my naturally winning ways, and my knowledge of...
by Jim Welton, Carolyn Welton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Prophets have always been God’s covenant lawyers. Under the Old Covenant, they came as God’s lawyers to prosecute His case against His covenant partner Israel. Now in the New Covenant, they are still God’s covenant lawyers, but the covenant has changed. Instead of pointing out guilt, sin, and condemnation,...
The Elephant in the Boardroom
Speaking the Unspoken about Pastoral Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Carolyn Weese and J. Russell Crabtree—experts in the field of church leadership—have written a nuts-and-bolts guide to developing a succession plan for smoothing pastoral transitions. Filled with strategies and solid advice, this handy resource is based in solid research and the authors’ many...