Robyn Robyn: 1128 books
The Revolution Has Come
Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership,...
by Robyn Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this darkly funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beginning of Everything.
Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium...
The Dysthymia Diaries
True stories of living with dysthymia, and finding help and hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Dysthymic disorder doesn't feel "mild" to those who suffer from it. It is something a person just wants to get rid of and wishes they didn't have. But it is a constant, lifelong condition. However, with counseling, medication, alternative therapies or other types of treatment, one may find...
Seduced by Logic
Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced. After all, how can anyone warm to a force that cannot be seen or touched? But for two women, separated by time and space but joined in their passion...
Living Oprah
My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
eBook Bonus:New Photos plus Video, Blog and Interview links.
What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions...
Never Underestimate Your Teachers
Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Any teacher can be a master teacher.
So says Robyn R. Jackson, author of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching.
In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and...
Smart Girls in the 21st Century
Understanding Talented Girls and Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright...
The Obesity Epidemic
Why Diets and Exercise Don't Work—and What Does
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In a world where charlatans promise to fix the alarming obesity epidemic with a silver-bullet diet or trendy new exercise program, Robyn Toomath, a physician and realist, steps out of the fray to deliver some tough news: it’s really hard to lose weight. Dispelling common myths and telling provocative...
Policing Black Lives
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned...
The Hummer and the Mini
Navigating the Contradictions of the New Trend Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
From the former trendmaster of Target—how the power of contradictory trends can help reframe your business strategy
Contradictions are everywhere! These days we wear Old Navy with new Gucci, Hanes T-shirts with Armani suits, couture Chanel with vintage denim. Suburban mansions are filled...
by Robyn Blakeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
The Bare Bones of Advertising Print Design is an ideal handbook for beginning designers and students of advertising design/layout and desktop publishing. Robyn Blakeman dissects the creative process one piece at a time, giving a step-by-step guide to the use and design of advertising in both magazines...
by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental...
by Robyn Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
"A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."—Noam Lupu, San Francisco Chronicle
The Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, we're seeing startling shifts...
Future Perfect
What next? and other impossible questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity.
Since we first came down out of the trees, most of our waking hours have been preoccupied with staying alive - life expectancy was so short, it was hard to seriously plan ahead. The religions we concocted taught us that the future was...