What's a Coal Miner to Do: The Mechanization of Coal Mining (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History)
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, January 1988. Hardcover. More
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, January 1988. Hardcover. More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, May 2021. Hardcover. A compulsively readable behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the weddings section of The New York Times--the good, bad, and just plain weird--through the eyes of a young reporter just as she's falling in love herself. Growing up in the south, where tradition reigns..... More
Melville House, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself..... More
Touchstone / Simon and Schuster, January 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Light user wear. Some small tan splotches along fore-edge. First Simon & Schuster paperback. Complete number line. [432 pages]. More
Penguin Press HC, The, February 2012. Hardcover. The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they..... More
Scribner, May 2017. Trade Paperback. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People). The daughter of a scientist who..... More
Random House, February 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTESLLER - From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work--and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life "A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well..... More
Citadel, February 2024. Hardcover. From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with..... More
Citadel, February 2024. Hardcover. From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with..... More
Rodale Books, September 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Comfort Crisis asks: Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can't we ever get enough? "Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain's fixations, so you can..... More
Mariner Books, August 2023. Hardcover. A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by..... More
Owl Books, May 2002. Trade Paperback. The "New York Times" bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Ni"ckel and Dimed" has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She..... More
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
Metropolitan Books, June 2008. Hardcover. America in the 'aughts--hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, "The Worst Years of Our Lives," about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim..... More
Putnam Adult, September 1995. Hardcover. America's most respected population experts offer solutions to the coming crisis of widespread starvation. A key to escaping this dilemma, the authors argue, is to increase the equity of all peoples in the world. When women are given power over their own bodies, birth rates..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
Princeton University Press, August 2017. First Edition. Cloth. The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi--al-la-shu'ur--as a translation for Sigmund..... More
Routledge, September 1998. Trade Paperback. In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social..... More
Penguin Press, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book's lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."--Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remarkable exploration of..... More
Harpercollins, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Traditional distinctions between matters of the mind and matters of the spirit are increasingly being questioned, and people are searching for alternate perspectives on these issues ." Thoughts Without a Thinker" is a major contribution to today's exploding discussion of how Eastern spirituality can enhance..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, January 1962. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1993. Trade Paperback. More