Anne Jenkins: 7 books

Meet Chaussettes and Geordie, two cats who had a rough start in life but now live a pampered life. Enjoy their antics and tall tails on life, travel and family. This is an illustrated book on living with cats, and cats with special needs, humorously written from the cat's point of view.The author...

Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas. Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our...

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...

A young assistant editor living with her guardian uncle has a great job for a publishing company in New York City and a wonderful relationship with her fianc, Mark.Suddenly, her world is turned upside down, and when her uncle dies she inherits property in Sunset Cove, Georgia.Now very much alone in...

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...