Amy: 4691 books

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA’s astronaut corps. NASA...

Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The...

What do you need to lead a special needs ministry?  If you're not asking this question as a church leader, you are already behind. Families in your community are asking this question in every area of life--not just church. We need to meet families, families of every kind, and love them right where...

Meetings. Doctor appointments. Carpools. Job interviews. Not to mention meals and sleep-and more meetings. Who’s got time for anything else? Where does daily devotion time fit into our 24/7/365 living? In Who’s Got Time? Spirituality for a Busy Generation, Teri Peterson and Amy Fetterman suggest...

Un bébé avec toi, Amy J. Fetzer Encore célibataire à trente ans passés, Angela se résout à faire un bébé toute seule. C’est compter sans la persuasion de Lucas Ryder, son meilleur ami qui, choqué par cette idée, se propose d’être le père de son enfant – et d’assumer pleinement...

Êtes-vous bien certaine de connaître votre fille ? D'ailleurs, est-ce vraiment la vôtre ? À 13 ans, Julie Whitaker a été kidnappée dans sa chambre au beau milieu de la nuit, sous les yeux de sa petite soeur. Dévastée, la famille a réussi à rester soudée, oscillant entre espoir, colère...

"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced." ---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University "This...

For decades, privacy took a back seat to the public’s right to know. But as the Internet and changing journalism have made it harder to distinguish news from titillation, U.S. courts are showing new resolve in protecting individuals from invasive media scrutiny. As Amy Gajda shows, this judicial backlash is now impinging on mainstream journalists.

After Cerise Mooreland steps through the Chaos Gate, she finds herself falling through a world of her almost forgotten memories. As a pattern begins to emerge, she wakes somewhere altogether unexpected.

THIRD EYE AWAKENING: “Spiritual Awakening - How To Open Your Third Eye, cleanse Your Pineal Gland and Awaken Your Spirit" Learn how you can awaken your Third Eye when you have a healed Pineal Gland. The Pineal Gland is responsible for the production of its DMT (Dimethyltryptamine). Dimethyltryptamine...

How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various...

In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants’ active engagement in shaping public housing into communities....

Studying hypnotism would inevitably mean studying the human mind, and definitely the human mind is an ever-changing overlapping universe of significance, interpretation, and purpose. Discover: - What is hypnotism - Hypnotism throughout history - Treating psychological problems with hypnosis - Common techniques in Hypnosis - And many more!

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegart...