Jacobs: 1412 books
Banish Your Inner Critic
Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Creativity is essential skill for today’s professionals. It inspires innovative thinking, effective problem solving, and fresh ideas. http://marketeer.kapost.com/content-marketing-hiring-infographic/ According to a survey by FastCompany.com, approximately 60% of CEOs polled cited creativity as the...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
Her Own Woman
The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2001
Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages -- poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world.
Her...
The Dentist of Auschwitz
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau;...
The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important...
The Question of Separatism
Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Jane Jacobs, writing from her adoptive country, uses the problems facing an independence-seeking Quebec and Canada as a whole to examine the universal problem of sovereignty and autonomy that nations great and small have struggled with throughout history. Using Norway’s relatively peaceful divorce...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported...
by Michael Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A “captivating” journey through the landscape, history, and diverse cultures of one of the world’s most majestic mountain ranges: “A modern travel classic” (Jon Lee Anderson).
For centuries, the Andes of South America have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder....
Highs, Lows, and Plateaus
A Path to Recovery from Stroke
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Stroke survivors, health care professionals working in rehabilitation, and anyone whose life has been affected by a stroke, will find critical information in Highs, Lows, and Plateaus. Anne Burleigh Jacobs, PT, PhD, a neuroscientist and a physical therapist with a successful track record of helping...
by Cindy Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Cindy Jacobs begins The Supernatural Life with a testimony of her first stirring encounter with the Holy Spirit. Her relationship with God was transformed, giving her the power of the supernatural in her life and the knowledge of how to release it. As in Acts 1:8, the Scriptures came alive to her...
Angels on Earth
They Are Waiting on You
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Dr. Michael P. Jacobs had an encounter with angels in 1983 that marked his life forever. This encounter led him to search the scriptures to answer the questions and misconceptions the body of Christ had about angels. In this book you will find answers to the following questions and more. What are angels...
Self-editing for Writers
Tips for Taking Your Book from Rough Draft to Polished Final
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
How to Take Your Rough Draft and Polish It
for Others’ Eyes
Ann Jacobs, multi-published author of bestselling, award-winning novels and novellas, takes you step by step through the self-edits you need to perform before presenting your book or novella to a publisher,...
Bold Moves for Schools
How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world? What skills and capacities do teachers and leaders need to create and sustain such schools? What actions...
Mapping Strategic Diversity
Strategic Thinking from a Variety of Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
In his influential work, Strategy Safari, Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues presented ten schools of strategic thought. In this impressive book, Dany Jacobs demonstrates that the real world of strategic management is much wider and richer.
In Mapping Strategic Diversity, Jacobs distinguishes...