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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...
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Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice

Ryan Patrick Murphy · Temple University Press
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover

In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at National and many other U.S. airlines sought to win political power and material resources for people who live beyond the boundary of the traditional...
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family

Kimberly Palmer · American Management Association
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back...
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A Small Story about the Sky

Alberto Ríos · Copper Canyon Press
Format: Print book

Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.The Washington PostRíos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in impeccable metaphors, that revel in the ordinariness of morning coffee and the crackle of thunderous desert storms. In one sonnet, Ríos...
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Juice. Blend. Taste.: 150+ Recipes By Experts From Around the World

Cindy Palusamy · Rizzoli
Format: Print book

150 recipes for drinks that taste as good as they are good for you. The innovative international juice bar and café concept The Juicery teams up with more than fifty leading global experts in the fields of nutrition and integrative medicine (doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers,...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY iMac

Guy Hart-Davis · Visual; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

This fully updated guide helps you get the most from your iMac As the iMac continues to evolve and become more sophisticated, this full-color, step-by-step guide becomes more and more essential. Veteran author Guy Hart-Davis guides you through everything you need to know about the capabilities...
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The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve

Kip Harding · Gallery Books
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover

If the Harding family can do it, your family can too! Having six out of ten kids go to college is no small feat on its own, but having six kids in college by the age of twelve - that's nothing short of incredible. Meet Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, high school sweethearts whose simple...
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Raptor: A Journey through Birds

James Macdonald Lockhart · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart's stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks...
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Explore Sri Lanka: The best routes around the country

Insight Guides · Insight Guides; Pap/Map edition
Format: Paperback

Explore Sri Lanka, part of a brand-new series launch for March 2014, is the ideal pocket companion for your trip: a full-color guide containing easy-to-follow routes that will take you from the bustling capital Colombo to the tea terraces in the hill country, by way of charming Galle Fort...
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Back Home with the Neelys: Comfort Food from Our Southern Kitchen to Yours

Pat Neely · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover

For Pat and Gina Neely the secret to a truly happy home is a lively mix of food and family. In their new book, the best-selling authors draw on their down-home roots and revisit the classic Southern recipes that have been passed down through generations. We're drawn into the kitchens...
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Call Me by My Other Name

Valerie Wetlaufer · Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Pages: 7
Format: Paperback

Call Me by My Other Name is a fierce, unforgettable book about bodies and desire. Told in three voices--two historical figures, and a meta-poetic third voice that connects past to present--Wetlaufer's story weaves a brutal narrative of how we are taught to masquerade queer gender and yearning....
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