Back All Non-Fiction | August Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  All Non-Fiction  
Seize the Day: Living on Purpose and Making Every Day Count

Joyce Meyer · Faith Words
Pages: 256
Format: Audiobook

#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Joyce Meyer shares a purposeful approach to everyday living, helping readers claim the good things God has in store for them each day. Today is no ordinary day. You may perform simple routines, feel uninspired, or lack the excitement of hope....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death

Henry Fersko-Weiss · Conari Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Careers in Education & Training

Salem Press · Salem Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

The job outlook for teachers range from good to excellent, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the highest growth areas in special education, English as a Second Language, science and math. Students interested in a career in education and training have a wide variety of choices...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Stephen Fishman JD · NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Book

This must-have handbook for writers and artists provides every necessary form to protect written expression under U.S. and international copyright law. With step-by-step instructions, it illustrates how to register a written work with the copyright office determine what works can be protected...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Southeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Angelica to Wild Plums

Chris Bennett · Timber Press
Format: Print book

From seashores and riverbanks to mountains, valleys, and overgrown fields, the beautiful Southeast is rich in wild edibles. Forager, farmer, teacher, and chef Chris Bennett helps you find the most delicious plants—from delectable wild greens, like the often-overlooked sweet,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family

Diana Abu-Jaber · W W Norton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"Diana Abu-Jaber is the Ambassador of Big-Heartedness." -- Patrick Volk, on The Language of BaklavaOn one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Martin J. S. Rudwick · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how was it discovered? How was the evidence...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Breast Cancer Alphabet

Madhulika Sikka · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A definitive and approachable guide to life during, and after, breast cancer The biggest risk factor for breast cancer is simply being a woman. Madhulika Sikka's A Breast Cancer Alphabet offers a new way to live with and plan past the hardest diagnosis that most women will ever receive:...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Caring for a Loved One with Dementia: A Mindfulness-Based Guide for Reducing Stress and Making the Best of Your Journey Together

Marguerite Manteau-Rao · New Harbinger Pub
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia is a unique and compassionate guide that offers an effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) program to help you meet your own needs and lower stress levels while caring for your loved one.If you're caring for a loved one with dementia, you know...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Make & Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century

Mary Katherine Fons · C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Format: Paperback

To warm the heart, soul, and bedroom, this how-to book, Make Love Quilts with Mary Fons, features a stunning collection of 12 quilts specifically sized to fit beds queen and king. Constructed from Marys favorite fabrics for a modern aesthetic, the quilts are classified as scrap quilts...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror

W. Scott Poole · Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book

The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider story of 1950s America and its treatment of women and sex, as well as capturing a fascinating swath of Los Angeles...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Ken Blanchard · Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Refire! Don't Retire asks readers the all-important question: as you look at the years ahead, what can you do to make them satisfying and meaningful? Ken Blanchard and Morton Shaevitz point out that some people see their later years as a time to endure rather than as an exciting opportunity....
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual

Roger Marshall · Timber Press
Format: Book

The ultimate guide to growing inside! A greenhouse can bring you spectacular rewards - if you know how to maximize its potential. In this easy-to-use guide, Roger Marshall covers all the basics - how to choose, heat, irrigate, and maintain your greenhouse - as well how to grow scores of popular...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

JOHN HODGMAN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: eBook

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John...
Read More check catalog