Levine: 894 books
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group...
Confederate Emancipation
Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave...
by Nancy Levine, Wilson the Pug
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Playful, endearing, and clearly profound, The Tao of Pug looks at the big picture from the eyes of a little dog.
Meet Wilson the Pug, a dog with a great deal of wisdom to share. A much-admired spiritual teacher, Wilson lives by the principles of the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese text on...
Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist...
Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy
The Arts and Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist...
Against the Stream
A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day—in his words, "against the stream." His teachings changed the world, and now they can change you too.
Presenting the basics of Buddhism...
Suffer the Little Children
Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This
compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American
children’s literature. Through close readings of selected titles published
since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious
history for young people, particularly when the histories...
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers
An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner...
The Misunderstood Jew
The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.
Business Basics
The Skills You Need to Succeed (Collection)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Your complete modern management library: today’s most crucial skills and best practices for success!
From finance to strategy, leadership to communication, these four outstanding books bring together the skills and best practices every manager and aspiring leader needs to succeed...
by Ann K. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Insights and strategies for success in the competitive law school application process offered by law school admission consultant and former director of law school admissions, Ann Levine, Esq. Ms. Levine is "The Secret Weapon of Law School Applicants Nationwide" and 95,000 law school hopefuls and pre-law...
The New Progressive Era
Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
A century ago, Americans launched a period of civic renewal and political reform. Today, amid deep dissatisfaction with our major institutions, there are signs that a new movement may revive the spirit of the original Progressive Era. Peter Levine draws inspiration from the great Progressive leader...
by Elaine Levine
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
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...
Is behavioral economics doomed?
The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics —...