Furst: 38 books

The first book in the Cabin Lessons series, A River, continues the story of Grace after she leaves her house and husband. She comes to a cabin by a river where she stays for a while, before sojourning to other places. Each turn in the road is a lesson. In her narration, Grace often reminisces about her old life as a way of coming to terms with the new.

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid–19th...

A mom of three adorable small children and a small business owner. Also, a graduate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A perspective new author of childrens books with the hope of writing many more adventures of the butterfly angels. From the purchase of each book, a percentage will be...

Designated a Doody's Core Title! "This volume is one of the best practice-oriented books on mental health and aging that I have read. I hope that the coming years will see substantive developments in outreach to depressed older adults. This book lays a solid and credible foundation for...

First published in 1971, this book examines the literary style of Naturalism. After introducing the reader to the term itself, including its history and its relationship to Realism, it goes on to trace the origins of the Naturalist movement as well as particular groups which adhered to Naturalism...

​This book traces the development of the basic concepts in cardiovascular physiology in the light of the accumulated experimental and clinical evidence and, rather than making the findings fit the standard pressure-propulsion mold, let the phenomena ‘speak for themselves’. It starts by considering...

In his second novel, the acclaimed author of The Sabotage Café leads us on a long, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond, as seen through the eyes of the revolution's poster child. Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture,...

As a teenager in the 1980s punk scene, Julia suffered an unspeakable trauma.Years later, she has made a new life for herself in the suburbs, desperately working to maintain a sense of normalcy.But when Julia's sixteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl, goes missing, Julia is forced to envision her every move....

Facilitar a tarefa dos educadores para desenvolver nos alunos habilidades para lidar com a informação. Esta é a proposta de Como usar a biblioteca na escola, livro cujo conteúdo segue os preceitos dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs). O educador encontrará uma nova metodologia para preparar...

"A escola não pode mais contentar-se em ser apenas transmissora de conhecimentos que, provavelmente, estarão defasados antes mesmo que o aluno termine sua educação formal; tem de promover oportunidades de aprendizagem que dêem ao estudante condições de aprender a aprender, permitindo-lhe...