Connor: 1500 books

In this remarkable book, a national bestseller in hardcover, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history,...

It is the largest and perhaps the most important organ of our body—it covers our fragile inner parts, defines our social identities, and channels our sensory experiences. And yet we rarely give a thought. With The Book of Skin, Steven Connor aims to change all that, offering an intriguing cultural...

**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 ** **A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September** In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme...

When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted. With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...

Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O'Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression....

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge...

A Perfect Storm is accelerating the dialogue and pace of innovation. It’s blurred the boundary of innovation and customer engagement disrupting companies and careers. Michael Connor, an Apple veteran, helps us harness the storm using “Always-On Innovation” to align strategy, development, and...

What is it you really want from your life? What do you truly desire? The list might be long or short...more money, financial security, a dream home, the perfect job, true love, peace, happiness, spiritual growth… Life is full of wants and desires. Have you ever wondered why it seems...

A little slice of Heaven on the Emerald Isle… In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors, enjoy some brown bread and tea, and get the local gossip. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O’Sullivan...

Winner of the 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest. "Excellent and lively. A sharp wit, the apt metaphor, the turn of phrase that pleases and surprises."—Marge Piercy, contest judge "Bright, brassy, spunky, intelligent. Ingenious writing. . . . Quirky and filled with metaphoric...

Midway through his summer vacation, eight year-old Huddie Blaylock suddenly realizes the reason for his recent, nagging paranoia: his normal, if slightly dysfunctional family has been replaced by imposters. Possessing the inflexible determination of the young and/or mentally ill, he embarks on a decade-long,...

Literary Nonfiction. In this warm and humorous memoir, the boy you meet is irrepressible, devilish, curious, rambunctious, imaginative, sports-minded, friendly, naive, and absolutely joyful--definitely the kind of boy who would get in trouble from his teacher for "unnecessary talking." Mike...

Few creatures are as universally despised as flies. Blamed for pestilence and plagues, they were publicly excommunicated from the medieval church. Beelzebub, “the lord of the flies,” was said to be the embodiment of evil, and, for centuries, flies were considered the result of spontaneous generation—the...

15 Complete Works of Ralph Connor   Beyond the Marshes Black Rock Corporal Cameron Glengarry Schooldays Michael McGrath, Postmaster The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories The Doctor a Tale of the Rockies The Foreigner The Major The Man From Glengarry The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail The Prospector The Sky Pilot The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land To Him That Hath