Shapiro: 578 books

American schools are undergoing huge changes, among the most significant of which is that their size is increasing rapidly. This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of large...

This popular practitioner guide and text presents an effective, problem-solving-based approach to evaluating and remediating academic skills problems. Leading authority Edward S. Shapiro provides practical strategies for working with students across all grade levels (K–12) who are struggling with...

If you read the Best Seller, "Start-Up Nation" by Dan Senor and Saul Singer then you must read "Living at Twice the Speed of Sound". Eitan (Eddie) Shapiro gives you a sharply focused view of through this narrative memoir. He trains for war, visits the Lebanese battle field and storms the boardroom...

Using real-life stories, scientific concepts, and awareness tools, The Book of Calm challenges the constraints of inevitable change and turbulent events with a dynamic stance of clarity, compassion, and choice. Transitions expert Nancy G. Shapiro moves gracefully and deliberately through subjects...

Imagine building a new home without a set of blueprintssounds absurd, doesnt it? Its no different than creating an estate plan without establishing planning goals, but far too often people engage in estate planning without thinking about what they want to accomplish. In Secure Your Legacy,...

Landing an internship at an ad agency isn't what her principal or her mother wanted for Jordie Popkin, aspiring journalist. At sixteen, Jordie is glad of the chance to collect "real world" experience and finds working with the "creatives" at the agency a nice break from her math and science curriculum....

"A sun-saturated tale of love and longing. . . Smart, funny, nuanced and seductive." —The Chicago Tribune Named one of the best books of the summer by O: The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Chicago Tribune, BBC Culture, NYLON and more On the verge of her fortieth birthday and shaken...

Tobacco Brown is the story of a man whose mind is fragmenting into wildly disparate pieces, each breaking off in its own conception—psychological drama, brutal reality, mordant satire—but each incorporating shadows and shards of the others, and each hero of them driven by the same awful curse: a need to search out the nature of reality.

Children of the Tide is a short anthology of stories about different creatures of the sea. In each of these stories a unique sea creature faces some daunting task. Some are looking for a way to fit in in its community, some are looking for adventure or a new life, others are looking for a purpose,...

BOSTON 1896. Renowned psychic Ignatius Jones commissions his portrait to be painted by one of the leading artists of his time. He promises his followers that he will communicate with them through his portrait after he passes to spirit. On the day that he is murdered in 1903, his portrait is...

Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists...

You've almost certainly pondered the question of whether or not life goes on after death. You may very well have also wondered whether the human soul exists as a separate entity from the physical body — and if so, can it ever leave the body before to death?  Growing up as an Oklahoma...

In this collection of essays and poems, Dr. Robin Shapiro captures the depth of the struggles and the triumphs of a healing journey. Using her own healing path as a canvas for her words, Robin offers solace and encouragement to all who are seeking health, wellness, and happiness. Her experiences in...

Il primo agosto 1967, mentre le classifiche di tutto il mondo erano infiammate da Purple Haze, da Hey Joe e dal primo magico album della Experience, un ragazzo olandese fondava timidamente un fan club dedicato al suo idolo: Jimi Hendrix, il nuovo fenomeno della chitarra rock. Oggi quel ragazzo, diventato...