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Pas de chevaux dans la maison!: La vie audacieuse de l’artiste Rosa Bonheur
Par Mireille Messier, Anna Bron. 2023
Un superbe livre d’images qui raconte la vraie histoire de Rosa Bonheur, une artiste française du XIXe siècle qui a…
défié les attentes genrées de son époque et bouleversé le monde de l’art avec ses peintures animalières d’un grand réalisme.Think and grow rich
Par Napoleon Hill. 1960
The mind
Par Richard Restak. 1988
An accompaniment to the 1988 PBS television series. Restak quotes experts and summarizes scores of studies and trends--from teaching chimps…
to learn sign language to electroconvulsive therapy to treat clinical depressionThe courage to heal: a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
Par Ellen Bass. 1988
The authors, one a counselor and one a survivor of child abuse, describe the healing process and the importance of…
recalling painful incidents clearly and recognizing the emotional damage the abuse caused. They discuss ways to help victims understand that they were not at fault, and ways to develop self-esteem. Some descriptions of sexAll of the women of the Bible
Par Edith Deen. 1955
This comprehensive collective biography contains studies of the 52 women in the foreground of biblical accounts. It also includes sketches…
of 125 women named in the Bible, and 125 nameless women in the biblical backgroundGrowing up on purpose
Par Robert Parkinson. 1988
Written to encourage pre-teens to share with their parents, teachers, and peers their thoughts on growing up, this book can…
help prepare pre-teens to cope with the challenges of adolescence. Each chapter ends with a "Let's Talk It Over" section designed to stimulate discussion on the topics presentedAll my best friends
Par George Burns. 1989
According to Burns, "Most of what I say is true. The rest is show business." In this portfolio about friends…
in show business, Burns delivers "anecdographies" of people he grew up with from their beginnings in vaudeville through silent movies, theatre, radio, talkies, and on into TV. Included are Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, and others. BestsellerDesperados: Latin drug lords, U.S. lawmen, and the war America can't win
Par Elaine Shannon. 1989
A journalist's research into the politics of drugs and the contradictions among the United States' domestic policies, its economic interests,…
and its national security concerns. The focus is on the Drug Enforcement Administration and specifically on the disappearance and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in February 1985. BestsellerCultural literacy: what every American needs to know
Par E. D Hirsch. 1987
Explains why we need to make some very specific educational changes in order to achieve a higher level of national…
literacy. Hirsch charges that only two-thirds of our citizens are literate, and even among those the average level is too low and needs to be raised. Appended is a long list titled "What Literate Americans Know: A Preliminary List." BestsellerWomen in science (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Par Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. 2023
Meet three inspirational women from the world of science: Ada Lovelace, Amelia Earhart, and Marie Curie! Little People, Big Dreams…
is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists.The Growing years: a guide to your child's emotional development from birth to adolescence
Par Mark Rubinstein. 1987
This book, written by a psychiatrist, offers practical advice on fostering a child's emotional growth from infancy to age twelve.…
Part one includes advice on a wide array of common concerns from weaning to television. Part two deals with special contemporary issues in emotional development, such as working mothers and divorceHow to make your own luck
Par Bernard Gittelson. 1981
A top consultant to industry, who is also a public relations representative and creator of a biothythm computer program business,…
focuses on using ingenuity and perseverance to get the breaks as an entrepeneur. Gittelson explains how to tap one's own creative energy and channel it into actionWhen it's laughter you're after
Par Stewart Harral. 1962
Reference guide for speakers, salesmen, professionals, and others who use humor when dealing with people. Discusses the techniques of getting…
laughs, timing, and sources of jokes, and lists more than four thousand humorous stories, ad libs, gags, and puns on a variety of topicsLines and shadows
Par Joseph Wambaugh. 1984
In this true crime story, Wambaugh focuses on the Border Crime Task Force, an eighteen-month experiment conducted by the San…
Diego Police. This task force foot-patrolled the Mexican-U.S. border between Tijuana and San Diego in an effort to stop the gangs who mug, rob, rape, and murder Mexican, illegal aliens. Powerful and compassionate. Strong language. Violence. Bestseller 1984The laughter prescription: the tools of humor and how to use them
Par Laurence Peter. 1982
The author of the bestselling "Peter Principle" teams up with humorist Bill Dana to prescribe laughter as the best medicine.…
Rather than a bitter pill, they recommend humor as preventive medicine for physiological and psychological healthAnger, the misunderstood emotion: The Misunderstood Emotion
Par Carol Tavris. 1982
Taking the position that the complex emotion of anger is actually a learned response that should be expressed selectively, Tavris…
disagrees with those who argue that it is beneficial to express anger at will. She aserts that there is a time and place for anger, and that its mere expression does not always produces the release claimedA romantic self-help book that is upbeat, practical, and winning. The author is a feminist former director of women's programs…
at the University of California at Berkeley and a leader of singles workshopsWeight Watchers quick and easy menu cookbook: over 250 seasonal recipes and menus based on the Quick Success Program
Par Weight Watchers International. 1987
More than 250 Weight Watchers recipes that can be prepared in less than one hour. Arranged by the months of…
the year to take full advantage of the in-season vegetables and fruits, each recipe is keyed to a daily menu. Bestseller 1987I, human: Ai, automation, and the quest to reclaim what makes us unique
Par Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. 2023
Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice is ours. What…
will we decide? It's no secret that AI is changing the way we live, work, love, and entertain ourselves. Dating apps are using AI to pick our potential partners. Retailers are using AI to predict our behavior and desires. Rogue actors are using AI to persuade us with Twitter bots and fake news. Companies are using AI to hire us-or not. This is just the beginning. As AI becomes smarter and more humanlike, our societies, our economies, and our humanity will undergo the most dramatic changes we've seen since the Agricultural Revolution. Some of these changes will enhance our species. Others may dehumanize us and make us more machinelike in our interactions with others. It's up to us to adapt and determine how we want to live and work. Are you ready? In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special-our curiosity, adaptability, and emotional intelligence-while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control. Filled with big-think fascinations and practical wisdom, I, Human is the book we need to thrive in the futureUp home: One girl's journey
Par Ruth Simmons. 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the…
youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity."— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) "A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words, because of it—Simmons would become the first Black president of an Ivy League university. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history. In Up Home, Simmons takes us back to Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are young shape who we become. We meet her caring, tireless mother who managed to feed her large family with an often empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and economic injustice crush his youngest daughter’s dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her to a future she could hardly imagine as a child. From the farmland of East Texas to Houston’s Fifth Ward to New Orleans at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Simmons depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality we still live with today. Written in clear and timeless prose, Up Home is both an origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting chronicle of a girl whose intellect, grace, and curiosity guide her as she creates a place for herself in the world