Joan: 2841 books
La llave de la buena vida
Saber ganar sin perderse a uno mismo y saber peder ganándose a uno mismo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2014
El mayor regalo que le hacemos a un hijo es, sin duda, entregarle su propia vida. A lo largo de ella, disfrutará de muchos momentos de crecimiento, expansión y felicidad, pero también sufrirá otros de pérdida, recogimiento y dolor. En el relato que abre este libro, unos padres deciden regalarle...
Island of the Lost
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.
In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave...
by Joan Brander
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Learn pysanky with expert and best-selling author Joan Brander as she shares information, knowledge, hints and money-saving tips for all levels of experience. For inspiration the author draws on her Ukrainian heritage, tradition and culture. This eBook follows the print version of the popular Pysanka...
Sandra Day O'Connor
How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned. She was called the most powerful woman in America, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Then, just one year short of a quarter...
Nature's Temples
The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
“Maloof eloquently urges us to cherish the wildness of what little old-growth woodlands we have left. . . . Not only are they home to the richest diversity of creatures, but they work hard for humans too.” —New York Times Book Review
An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally...
by Corbett Joan OToole, Elizabeth Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Uncovering stories about disability history and life, OToole shares her firsthand account of some of the most dramatic events in Disability History, and gives voice to those too often yet left out. From the 504 Sit-in and the founding of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, to the Disability...
Tangled Up In Blue
An Epic Novel of the Snow Queen Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2001
Joan D. Vinge returns to Tiamat, the world of her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its bestselling sequel The Summer Queen.
Set during the time of The Snow Queen, BZ Gundhalinu is a by-the-book "Blue" on the trail of high corruption within the force. When a police raid...
by Joan D. Vinge
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated The Snow Queen, marks the first time the book has been reprinted in fifteen years.
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter...
by Joan Frances Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Death was never the end...
With the fragile balance between zombies and the living shattered by an artificial plague, life has only gotten harder for those still walking. While the undead no longer threaten mankind, there are almost no humans left to terrorize: the world belongs to mutation-riddled...
Confessions of a Curator
Adventures in Canadian Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Mothers and Daughters
How to Stay Close and Stay Sane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A warm, witty and wise gift for mothers and daughters.
Joan Sauers, bestselling author of Ageing Disgracefully and mother of a teenage daughter, gives us her warm, witty and wise take on the whole mother-daughter bond. With more than 300 indispensable tips, gentle advice, pithy observations...
The Book of I
An Illustrious Collection of Self Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
I think, therefore I am.René Descartes. "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."Emily Dickinson. "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round."Henry David Thoreau. "I am I because my little dog knows me."Gertrude Stein. "I'm glad I'm not me."Bob Dylan. "We are what...
The Talented Miss Highsmith
The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes
A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner
A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee
A Publishers Weekly Pick...
Can You Say a Few Words?
How to Prepare and Deliver a Speech for Any Special Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
-Your alma mater asks you to say a few words at an upcoming fundraising dinner
-You've won an employee award and will have to give a short acceptance speech at the ceremony
-Your parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary, and you'd like to make a toast at their party
Everyone's counting...