Sachs: 150 books

Mary Rose was proud to be named after her aunt, because her aunt had been a heroine, saving the lives of everyone in the apartment building—before dying in the fire. But not everyone thought the first Mary Rose was a heroine. Young Mary Rose overheard her uncles remembrance of the events of that dramatic...

Orphaned eleven-year-old Izzy is shipped off to San Francisco, to stay with an uncle and his wife who plan to send her to boarding school. Izzys memory about her past is dim. Why did her father hate her uncle so much? How did her mother die? And what happened to the little dog, Gus, she had once loved?...

Peter Wedemeyers former enemy, Veronica Ganz, became his best friend. Together they explored their neighborhood on rollerskates and challenged each other to do crazy things. Peters mother called Veronica a troublemaker and his friends thought he was nuts to be her friend, but Peter defended Veronicauntil...

Molly and her sister were raised by different families after their parents died in a car crash. After eight years apart, Beth comes to visit and claims to have a secret memory about their past. Instead of the pleasure Molly expected from Beths arrival, Molly finds herself angry at Beths mysterious rudeness...

Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if...

This book explores the true meaning of achievement in sports: having fun, developing athletic and social skills, and nurturing a healthy, positive sense of self-esteem. Drs. Fine and Sachs offer practical, research-based advice that is bound to enrich the sports experience—as well as life outside of sports—for both children and adults.

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...

This book should be viewed as a primer for any new or aspiring CMO, C-suite peer to marketing, or marketer looking to ’up their game’, and as such it provides a range of ideas, concepts, approaches and considerations from a wide range of CMOs who are driving significant transformation within their...

Everyone in Miss Thompsons fourth grade class loves The Bears HouseFran Ellen Smith most of all. When Fran Ellen goes into The Bears House, she can forget about how awful things are at home. At the end of the term Miss Thompson is giving the house away, but Fran Ellen knows it wont be to her. How is...

Breaking the Fall opens as Sherry Berger, a therapist on the northwest side of Chicago, contemplates how to reconcile her apparently middle class life with the life and death emergencies of her clients. Sherry has secrets of her own and she hopes that these secrets won’t impact her ability to help...

Hätten Sie's gedacht? Nach Einschätzung der New York Times zählte Leipzig 2010 zu den weltweit spannendsten Orten. Neben Los Angeles und Seoul gehört Leipzig zu den 31 sogenannten places to go, hauptsächlich wegen seiner kulturellen Glanzpunkte. Aber auch sonst werden Sie staunen: Die City zeigt...

Il prezzo della civiltà non solo indaga le cause della recessione globale, che si è ormai palesata come una crisi strutturale delle democrazie capitaliste occidentali, ma offre anche una speranza, la ricetta per una soluzione, difficile ma concreta e praticabile. L’ampiezza di sguardo e la capacità...

Dieser Band nimmt die Leser mit auf eine sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Reise durch die Romania − von Portugal, Spanien und Italien über Frankreich und Rumänien − und über ihre Grenzen hinaus bis nach Irland und Kanada. Den Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Untersuchungen aus den Gebieten der Grammatik-,...

Weihnachtszeit ist Märchenzeit und wer glaubt, dass Märchen nur etwas für Kleinkinder sind, der irrt. Denn die fantastischen Geschichten der preisgekrönten Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorin Gisela Sachs behandeln Themen aus grundliegenden menschlichen Lebenserfahrungen. Sie erzählen vom Licht der...