Patricia: 6176 books
Woo, Wow, and Win
Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In this pioneering guide, two business authorities introduce the new discipline of Service Design and reveal why trying new strategies for pleasing customers isn’t enough to differentiate your business—it needs to be designed for service from the ground up.
Woo, Wow, and Win reveals the...
Haverhill, Massachusetts
From Town to City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
In 1850, Haverhill, Massachusetts, was a small mercantile and farming town with slightly fewer than6,000 residents. One half-century later, six times that many people called Haverhill home, and it had become an industrial center ranked as one of the top five shoe producers in the nation. The bustling...
by Patricia McBride
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Congratulations. By reading this book you are taking a significant step towards a more enjoyable life. By following the guidelines you'll find here, you'll reap huge benefits. These include feeling confident about yourself, your actions and everyday life. That means not being wracked with...
Josephine
The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor
In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the...
by Patricia Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This biography of the legendary actor “offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius” (Library Journal).
In 1948 Marlon Brando stunned audiences and critics alike with his revolutionary, raw, and improvisational approach to acting. He became a symbol of a new, rebellious generation...
Wide Awake
What I Learned About Sleep from Doctors, Drug Companies, Dream Experts, and a Reindeer Herder in the Arctic Circle
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
A fourth-generation insomniac, Patricia Morrisroe decided that the only way she’d ever conquer her lifelong sleep disorder was by becoming an expert on the subject. So, armed with half a century of personal experience and a journalist’s curiosity, she set off to explore one of life’s greatest...
by Patricia Cornwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel, Hornet's Nest. This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer's deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs.
by Wynn, Patricia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Second in the Blue Satan mystery series, The Spiders Touch continues the saga of Gideon, Viscount St. Mars who is falsely accused of murdering his father, and his friend Hester Kean, who finds herself ensconced with the household of the Earl of Hawkhurst, who holds Gideons title. As the highwayman Blue...
How to Make Slipcovers
Designing, Measuring, and Sewing Perfect-Fit Slipcovers for Chairs, Sofas, and Ottomans. A Storey BASICS® Title
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Give your favorite furniture a new look! Patricia Hoskins, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers simple, step-by-step, illustrated instructions for making your own slipcovers for dining chairs, easy chairs, ottomans, and sofas with either loose back pillows or fixed cushions. She...
Possibility
Essays Against Despair
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
“The essays in Vigderman’s collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory . . . Lyrical and graceful” (Publishers Weekly).
In this accessible collection of essays, Patricia Vigderman attempts to translate some of life’s disordered...
by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Artistically gifted, he guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness but is known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. In this comprehensive...
by Patricia Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) was canonized in 1982. Patricia Simpson goes beyond myth and hagiography to explore Bourgeoys's dream of establishing a radically new religious community of women, recounting her thirty-year struggle to obtain official recognition for the Congrégation of Notre-Dame....
The True Story of Catch 22
The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller’s 340th Bomb Group in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novels characters were indeed recognizablethe hard-drinking,...
by Patricia Gaydos
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A story about a black cat named Solomon who moves from the country to the city. Solomon and his two companions, Tiger and Precious, are upset with their new surroundings. Solomon shares with his readers that that change isn’t always bad, just different.