Workman Publishing Company: 370 books
When a Loved One Falls Ill
How to Be an Effective Patient Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The much-needed book for anyone with a loved one facing a serious illness. It is the book that’s a bible for how to make the potentially life-or-death decisions that every medical advocate, and every patient, must grapple with—especially now, as health care becomes ever more complicated. It is...
by David Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The perfect gift for seekers, the curious, and the spiritually hungry, The Little Book of Prayers now has a stunning new cover and a more prayer book–like format.
Gathered from holy books and prayer books, from songs and spirituals, spoken traditions and poets, it is an unexpectedly approachable...
The Natural Baby Sleep Solution
Use Your Child's Internal Sleep Rhythms for Better Nights and Naps
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Kinder, Gentler, and It Really Works
Based on the human rest and activity cycle that occurs every hour and a half, here’s a scientifically based program for parents to help babies get all the sleep they need, both through the night and during the day. The method is simple, foolproof, and...
The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters
33 Thrilling Experiments Based on History's Greatest Blunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
It’s hands-on science with a capital “E”—for engineering.
Beginning with the toppling of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, to the destructive, laserlike sunbeams bouncing off London’s infamous “Fryscraper” in 2013, here is an illustrated tour...
Unlikely Heroes
37 Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart from the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In her heartwarming New York Times bestsellers Unlikely Friendships and last year’s Unlikely Loves, Jennifer Holland revealed the surprising emotional bonds that exist between animals of different species. Her books spent dozens of weeks on bestseller lists and caught the attention of major media...
Parenting Is Easy
You're Probably Just Doing It Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Imagine a world where pregnant women are always upbeat and glowing, newborns sleep on cue, toddlers love to have their teeth brushed, and teenagers gaze adoringly at their parents. Impossible, you say? Not according to advertisers who flood the web with stock photos of perfect parents and children....
The Art of Confession
Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Paul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book—a spiritual gem—that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audience. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health. It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious...
by Shaun Morey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
What’s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist’s eye (and vice versa) in this collection of over 100 incredible (and true!) fishing stories.
Here are Remarkable...
Do More Great Work
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2010
You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet you feel like you are constantly treading water with "Good Work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "Bad Work"—endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps.
Do More Great...
Self-Meditation
3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Don’t self-medicate—self-meditate. In a book of thousands of entries, written in the abundant, winningly positive way that’s helped her books sell over 1.5 million copies, Barbara Ann Kipfer shows just how we can—and should—meditate anytime, anywhere, and reap the ever-growing list of mental...
Up Your Score: ACT, 2018-2019 Edition
The Underground Guide to Outsmarting "The Test"
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Fully updated to reflect the most current version of the ACT, Up Your Score: ACT remains the test prep and survival guide that kids will actually want to use. Written by Chris Arp, a Princeton graduate and top ACT tutor—with the help of four students who aced the test (and went on to the colleges...
Dear County Agent Guy
Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“Jerry Nelson’s column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people.”—Garrison Keillor
In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor,...
"Is This Thing On?"
A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby Stokes is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbies—specifically older newbies—turn to when they want to become digitally literate. And her book, Is This Thing On?, is as smart, comprehensive, reassuring, and jargon-free as she is: the epitome...
8,789 Words of Wisdom
Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
An essential, obsessive collection of all those wise and quirky sayings we’ve heard before—plus plenty of essential, obscure ones to discover—now all in one place.
With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms—8,789...