Elaine: 1438 books

This essential guide for all military families provides helpful advice and reassurance on topics ranging from boot camp, to deployment, to PTSD, from a former "Army brat" turned mother of four military kids. When you enlist in the United States military, you don't just sign up for...

Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present. With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing...

From Pegasus to Black Beauty, horses have held a unique place in human society and imagination. Elaine Walker tackles the long and multifaceted history of a creature valued for both beauty and usefulness. Spanning the world from the wild steppes of Mongolia to the American plains, Horse chronicles...

Meltdowns and overstimulation are a common part of Asperger Syndrome. Read as fellow Aspie Elaine Day describes how she deals with these situations in part One of Surviving and Thriving with Asperger Syndrome. Learn coping tools, survival strategies, and more and learn how to seek help from those around you when dealing with meltdowns and overstimulation.

To Gently Leave This Life: The Right To Die, which explores the right-to-die movement and the human tragedies, such as Karen Quinlan’s difficult death, that precipitated assisted dying legislation in several states in the U.S., and in several countries in Europe, Canada, and South Africa. Patients...

Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies--why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to...

From growing up as the weird kid in class to becoming a fully functional adult, Elaine Day shares the exciting story of her journey from odd to Aspergers. In this book, she tells stories from throughout her life, including the various ways that Asperger Syndrome impacted her. From being bullied and...

You are not alone if you are one of the staggering numbers of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren! Are you confused by the generational gaps, challenging communications, and tough questions like, “Why are my parents so old? Why is my father in jail? Why doesn’t my mother show up to...

Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology...

A sparkling collection of short stories by many of the UK's best known magazine writers. Read any women's magazine and the names in this book are bound to be there. Women connected by fiction and their love of words who have joined together to support the awareness and treatment of breast cancer by...

Praise for Developing Talentfor Organizational Results "Elaine Biech brings together some of the 'royalty' of American corporations and asks them to share their wisdom in increasing organizational effectiveness. In 46 information-filled chapters, these 'learning providers' don't just sit...

This is one of the few books on wedding planning that is written with the parents of the bride and groom, and the newly engaged couple in mind. I was inspired by the experience with my own son and his wife which lead me to bringing our experience to you. This book will uncover many wedding event planning...

Do you tend to avoid speaking in public? Or are you a seasoned speaker looking for ways to polish and rejuvenate your skills? Whatever your current level of expertise, here’s your chance to cultivate a more powerful speaking voice, master the art of fielding questions, and learn to think on your...

Step into Elaine Levine's exciting new series of alpha warriors--products of the government's secret corps of assassins called the Red Team: Haunted by memories he cannot reach, stalked by an enemy bent on revenge . . . Rocco Silas has come home to Wyoming after long years as a Red Team...