Naomi: 836 books
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
'Til Faith Do Us Part
How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths....
The Anti-Inauguration
Building resistance in the Trump era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.
The five essential speeches presented here are taken from The Anti-Inauguration, held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books.
Give Me Liberty
A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in disorder -- if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always...
The Golden Age of Liberalism
A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book explores the life and times of Roméo LeBlanc, one of Canada's most popular and successful politicians and statesmen. Probably best known as the long-standing fisheries minister in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet from 1974 to 1982, LeBlanc's career spanned the golden era of Liberalism in Canada....
A Life in Medicine
A Literary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“Excellent” poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more (Library Journal).
A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with...
The Faculty Lounges
And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability...
Shy
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and poets who have been labelled by the world—teachers, parents, and peers—as shy. Here, they proudly own up to their shyness, and their message...
The First Civil Right
How Liberals Built Prison America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that...
by Charlotte Hubbard, Naomi King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Willow Ridge, Missouri, the Christmas season is a time when faith brings peace, family brings warmth and new romance brings sparkling joy. . .
Twins For Christmas
For spirited Martha Coblentz and her twin Mary, the snow has delivered the perfect holiday and birthday present to their...
The Scent of Water
Grace for Every Kind of Broken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Follow Naomi as she talks to women working in brothels in Mumbai; survivors of an Indonesian tsunami in which more than 160,000 lives were lost; a young girl waiting on an operation to save her life; and victims of domestic violence horrifically burned by fire. Be still with her when she realizes...
Einstein and the Rabbi
Searching for the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Award in the Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought category
A bestselling author and rabbi’s profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soul, inspired by the famous correspondence between Albert Einstein and a grieving rabbi.
“A...
by Naomi Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Christians ought to be the best love makers in the worldBut is your love life as ripe as it should be?Whether you are enjoying the pleasures of great loving sexor accumulating cobwebs in your love areas, this is a must read for you!Begin to build or rebuild a solid and fulfilled Christian...
My Grandfather's Blessings
Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive.
Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection...