287 results for '"Heimer, Karen'

Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject. The book documents the universality of...

A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's...

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged...

Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first...

Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl KuppermanHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneCaptain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled...

This is a book for anyone who cares about the way we treat other human beings; for anyone who has read about cases like Karen Quinlan and wondered what ought to be done; for anyone who has stopped to...

Pastoral care instruction and observation from a therapist of survivors of sexual abuse."The Abuse of Power is 'must' reading for clergy and denominational officials.... Weaving case stories with...

A unique and inspiring collection of accounts by people who have encountered God, from Biblical times to the present.Foreword by Karen ArmstrongThe Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies brings...

"Gemlike stories that sparkle with intelligence and fire." ―O, The Oprah MagazineA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this wonderfully imagined collection from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell)...

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far) New York Times Notable Books of 2024 Chicago Public Library Favorite Books of 2024 Kirkus Reviews Best...

The diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all at once...

ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FANTASY TALES OF ALL TIME. NOW AN EPIC TV SERIES.   An ancient evil is stirring, intent on the complete destruction of all life. The Druid Allanon sets out on a dangerous...

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold...

A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years. Three Summers is the story of three sisters...

Discover the powerful principles of flavor pairings, the building blocks of all good cooking, in this James Beard Award-winning "encyclopedic primer to flavor" (Associated Press). Great cooking goes...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • San Francisco ChronicleIn True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and...

High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help...

Jules Verne's masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imaginations of generations of readers and continues to enthrall us today.On October 2, 1872, an English gentleman makes a...

Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a...

Radical Hope is a collection of letters—to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged—written by award-winning...