Deborah: 3153 books
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**
By the end...
Hijos del Pueblo
Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
The everyday lives of indigenous and Spanish families in the countryside, a previously under-explored segment of Mexican cultural history, are now illuminated through the vivid narratives presented in Hijos del Pueblo ("offspring of the village"). Drawing on neglected civil and criminal judicial records...
by Deborah Jiang-Stein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
As a young girl, Deborah Jiang-Stein discovered a shattering secret—she was born in prison and her birth mother, a heroin addict, kept her inside for the first year of her life. This book is the story of how Jiang-Stein came to terms with these traumatic facts and eventually began to dedicate herself...
Talking from 9 to 5
Women and Men at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...You averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeting with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing...
HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD?
In her extraordinary...
The Earthquake Observers
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet’s hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake...
Twilight of the Superheroes
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a...
by Deborah Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Deborah Hutton's discovery that the niggling cough which had been troubling her for a couple of months was actually an aggressive lung cancer marked the beginning of a brand-new learning curve - a personal odyssey that taught her to let go of her super-competent I-can-handle-it-myself persona and...
The Stardust Lounge
Stories from a Boy's Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance,...
by Deborah Wolbrette, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Deborah Wolbrette, MD is devoted to Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Wolbrette has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Syncope due to Autonomic Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Management; 2013 Lipid Guidelines;...
The Darling Menopause THE SHOCK
A humourous diary about the discovery of the peri-menopausal world and life lessons from it
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Deborah Crowe’s autobiographical, humorous look at the world, “The Darling Menopause”, begins in August 2014… Set in sunny Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I chronicle my menopausal journey of the past 4 years to date, from my perspective and that of my young daughter and my rather less young husband.
I...
by Ken Ham, Hugh Ross, Deborah Haarsma
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current "state of the conversation" about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions:
Young Earth Creationism - Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis)
Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism - Hugh Ross (Reasons...
by Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated around this centre. Less than 250 years ago, they believed that the Universe was created essentially...
The Boy on the Bus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Meg Landry expected it to be a day like any other -- her asthmatic eight-year-old son would step off the bus, home from school. But on this day, the boy on the bus is not Meg's son -- or at least doesn't appear to be. This new boy shares Charlie's copper hair, tea-brown eyes, and slight frame. But...
Pox
Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians...