Margaret: 4917 books
by Margaret J. Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
By the bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science and Turning to One Another Thoughtful, compassionate reflections on how we can carry on with joy despite difficulties, challenges, and disappointments Illuminated by both beautiful original paintings and by poems and quotations from a variety...
Original I Ching
An Authentic Translation of the Book of Changes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
First among the ancient classics, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the world's most influential books, comparable to the Bible, the Koran, and the Upanishads.
The I Ching's purpose is universal: to provide good counsel to its users in making decisions during times of change. Since its...
by Margaret Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Settling in after the flurry of activity involved in our move to France we started to take stock of our local community discovering almost immediately that there were two distinct groups in the area, the French and the British. We were to be surprised how much amusement this engendered, particularly...
OWN IT!
A Girl's Guide to Building Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Wealth is an amplifier. It makes you more of who you are—which is why it’s so important to get money and wealth in the hands of those people making a positive difference in the world. I’m talking to you. No matter who you are, how much money is (or is not) in your bank account, now is your time...
Parenting Out of Control
Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle...
Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner
The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice).
This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.
Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve...
The Burgess Shale
The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris...
From Dependency to Independence
Economic Revolution in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies:...
by Margaret Ms. De Vries
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1986
This collection of 18 articles, originally published in Finance & Development and the IMF Survey, was written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries and constitutes a short history of the IMF's evolution.
Wired for Survival
The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Lessons from the Cutting-Edge of Neuroscience: “Remapping” to Thrive in the New Global Economy!
“Do you ever wonder how you think? If you do, this book will fascinate and inform you. If you don’t, you will after reading this book. Either way, you’ll enjoy learning how we don’t usually...
by Margaret Lee Meriwether
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along...
The Kin Who Count
Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study...
Property
Meanings, Histories, Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.
It is organized around three themes:
the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and...