Elaine: 1438 books
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans...
by Elaine Equi
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Whether celebrating clones or revising Led Zeppelin, Equi melds verse with aphorism, wisdom with wicked playfulness."—Entertainment Weekly
Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend—witty, thoughtful, and wry.
SLIGHT
A slight implies
if not an...
by Elaine Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee’s mind reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The...
Fortress America
How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracy
For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,...
by Elaine Woodfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Venerable Father Walter CiszekWho was Venerable Father Walter Ciszek? Walter Ciszek was born in 1904 to Polish immigrants who settled in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He was a fighter and gang member who seemed more destined for reform school than for the seminary. But while still in his teens,...
Women Drug Traffickers
Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers—work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject,...
by Elaine C. Kamarck
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Failure should not be an option in the presidency, but for too long it has been the norm.
From the botched attempt to rescue the U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter and the missed intelligence on Al Qaeda before 9-11 under George W. Bush to, most recently,...
by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.
Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk...
Edgar Cayce’s Quick & Easy Remedies
A Holistic Guide to Healing Packs, Poultices and Other Homemade Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Author Elaine Hruska has spent more than 30 years working with the Cayce health readings at the Edgar Cayce health centers in Virginia Beach, Va., and Houston, Texas. Her latest book highlights the wealth of information given with a spotlight on the simplest and most commonly prescribed remedies....
The Complete Single Father
Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Being a single parent is a tough job no matter who you are, but if you’re a single dad, you likely feel you’ve entered a strange, new world. Whether your kids are twelve months old or twelve years old, the tips and advice in this comprehensive guide will make the little tricks of parenting feel...
Letters From Madelyn
Chronicles of a Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Madelyn Kubin was a 70-year-old Kansas farm wife. She appeared to be fragile because of her thinning white hair, macular degeneration, osteoporosis, congestive heart failure, and severe hearing loss. But when her husband Quentin suffered a debilitating stroke, she was forced to summon all of her physical,...
Talking Diversity with Teachers and Teacher Educators
Exercises and Critical Conversations Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring content-specific strategies, assignments, and classroom activities, this book provides strategies to help pre- and in-service teachers develop the dispositions and knowledge they need to teach all students well. Focusing on the importance of creating a classroom community in which necessarily...
Discovering Westcave
The Natural and Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In the heart of the Texas Hill Country lies an astonishing place called Westcave Preserve, a 76-acre nature preserve and environmental education facility in western Travis County, near Austin, that provides a sanctuary for the flora and fauna of surprisingly diverse ecosystems.
Westcave has...
The Best-Kept Teaching Secret
How Written Conversations Engage Kids, Activate Learning, Grow Fluent Writers . . . K-12
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Your fast-track to student engagement
Everywhere Smokey Daniels speaks, there’s one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners . . . for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking,...