Control the Narrative

Reducere. Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a governmen...

Reducere. In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, just before entering his t...

Let your reputation help your career. From recovering from a blunder to contemplating next steps, this guide helps you leverage your core values fo...

Reducere. We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world.The real physical world of matter, of atoms and m...

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Reducere. Every person has a story, a personal narrative that informs their life, their decisions, and their way of thinking. But did you know that it also a...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Surely among the most original and gifted of children's book illustrators, Paul O. Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, cont...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Follow the narrator as he takes us through the good and bad aspects of micro-organisms in this fun rhyming poem by Sam McBratney, explaining that w...

Reducere. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells h...

Take control of your narrative and become the main character of your own life with these creative prompts, activities, and challenges to encourage ...

Reducere. A powerful blazingly honest memoir told with humor and panache about a mother and son finding each other again after years of estrangement. A comin...

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass ignored his master's veto on black education and taught himself to read and write. Escaping to the Northern S...

Reducere. In the United States we are reluctant to acknowledge that females ever molest children; maternal incest frequently occurs undetected. Mother-daught...

Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructiona...

Reducere. What is the heroine's journey? How is it different from the hero's journey? What makes Harry Potter different from Star Wars? Twilight from Wonder ...

Our brains have been evolutionarily hardwired to think, to make sense, and to understand in simple--but hidden--story terms. You'll discover the Ne...

Reducere. Sent to a military school at nine, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the French Army. But a brilliant military career wasn't enough. Soon,...

Reducere. A few months before high school graduation, Moira Levinson is summoned to an old-fashioned soiree where she discovers what's underneath the surface...

Reducere. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power...

Reducere. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells h...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed ...

Reducere. Using Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women to face a pregnancy after loss with faith and cou...

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

Reducere. In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of ho...

Reducere. The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving...

Reducere. A global manga phenomenon in the early 1990s, Akira is a futuristic depiction with apocalyptic elements set in a Neo-Tokyo on the brink of civil wa...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 117-Story Treehouse--...

Reducere. Debut author Jules Machias explores identity, gender fluidity, and the power of friendship and acceptance in this dual-narrative story about two ki...

In this powerful narrative, bestselling author Sarah Price takes us on the dark road to addiction.Laura Reese is losing control. Compassionate and ...

Reducere. For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, their designs for this island frequently clashing with the desire of ...

The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the C...

DescriptionA lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools, and the US mi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1982, Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars. Millions of guitars later, and cel...

Reducere. Osama bin Laden is dead. Saddam's regime is buried. Baghdad lies in ruins. Now the eyes of the world are on Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy, two senior ...

Reducere. This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by sayi...

While the expectations and circumstances of women's lives in ancient Israel have received considerable attention in recent scholarship, to date lit...

Reducere. Editie in limba engleza. Contents: • Explanatory note • Take This Walz • October, and Then November, and Then December • Another September, and The...

Reducere. Contents: Explanatory noteTake This WalzOctober, and Then November, and Then DecemberAnother September, and Then October, and Then November, and Th...

Reducere. DescriptionEnding compulsive sexual behavior is just the beginning.Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind...

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a ...

Reducere. The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire H...

DescriptionA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Written and designed by the staff of The Washington Post and illustrated by artist Jan Feindt, The Mueller R...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

Reducere. Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and h...

Reducere. "They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long."Drowned Town explor...

Reducere. In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formall...

DescriptionThe morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's trans...

Reducere. How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twe...

Reducere. A novel in the environmental literature genre, Second Rising combines a mystery, a love story, and a fight against injustice. The narrator, Lauren,...

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succ...

Reducere. Reaching the Sun presents a beautiful blend of poems, quotes and lessons on growth and transformation from the author of the bestselling book "Bloo...

Reducere. By 6: 00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that w...

In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines...

Reducere. The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the sprea...

The Wonderful world of Corkle is an imaginary trip to a fanciful island where magical beings, called Porple, await the opportunity to help humans o...

Reducere. Contents: My Man Jeeves Extricating Young Gussie Right Ho, Jeeves Jeeves is a fictional character in a series of humorous short stories and novels ...

Reducere. In this volume from the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary, Paul Tanner argues that the book of Daniel is the Old Testament blueprint of the Bible's...

Anne Bronte's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of ...

After suffering emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma while witnessing George Floyd's tragic demise, Dr. Debra Hobbs was forced into confr...

Reducere. DescriptionEmma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her anarchist i...

Description'I'm working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward III's time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be main...

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

Reducere. Robert Asprey completes his definitive, two-volume biography with an intimate, fast-paced look at Napoleon's daring reign and tragic demise with mo...

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Ger...

Reducere. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders and will affect almost 30...

Reducere. In many ways society teaches us to try to have everything under our control. If we are honest, we tend to think that this can be true even of our s...

35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY*A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*The year is 1964.Bailey doesn't realiz...