Cynthia: 2564 books
Small Business for Big Thinkers
Unconventional Strategies to Connect With and Win Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
A small business is not just a scaled-down version of a big one. In fact, some of the strategies that work well for larger companies may actually be completely irrelevant for smaller firms.
Small Business for Big Thinkers offers unconventional but proven strategies to run a better small business....
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity. Yet, as mistress of a large household,...
Blood and Culture
Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed...
Quarrel & Quandary
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In her new collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement...
by Cynthia Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the United States. In the first scholarly examination of their work and influence, Cynthia Fowler explores the arguments presented by these pioneering women and...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
by Cynthia L. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
This book discusses the steps you need to take from a faith-based perspective to get over the emotional hurt and pain in your life, when you feel like you cannot go on. There is no miracle cure for hurt in your life but you can learn to conquer the pain and move forward!
An Honest House
A Memoir, Continued
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Cynthia Reyes has done it again. Picking up from the early days of her recovery from a car accident, as told in her first book, A Good Home, she shares in this new book intensely lyrical stories of life in her historic farmhouse north of Toronto.
You will hear the birds sing, smell the flowers...
Music and the French Enlightenment
Rameau and the Philosophes in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music. The principal participants-Rousseau, Diderot, and d'Alembert-were responding to the views of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, who was...
China's New Culture of Cool
Understanding the world's fastest-growing market
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
When China opened its borders to travelers and its economy to international trade, businesses all over the world took note. With well over one billion people, it represented a huge potential marketplace for goods and services. Huge as it is, however, China is not a monolithic culture. Though deeply rooted...
Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our...
If You Only Knew
A gripping, debut thriller that you won't want to put down
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A wife, a mother, a killer.
One wrong decision, one terrifying night, leaves student Elizabeth with a stark choice – kill or be killed. And the consequences of that choice will shape her whole life.
Now a wife, a mother, and a lawyer, she must find a way to out run her past, protect...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Leave the Building Quickly
True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important...