A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive, Zora Neale Hurston published seven books, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Today, nearly every black woman writer of significance -- including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice [...]

A compassionate spiritual meditation on the process of death and dying, written by the author of the popular Conversations with God series, offers counsel on how to draw wisdom and peace of mind throughout the process, which is explained as the beginning of an "after life" in God's kingdom. Reprint.[...]

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Furnishing an outline for a new form of spirituality, the best-selling author of Conversations with God creates a question-and-answer dialogue between the author and God in which he describes a new form of spirituality that will enhance each individual's life and discusses such topics as sex, relati[...]

"Emotional Intelligence Coaching" examines the vital role emotions and habits play in performance. Emotional intelligence can help leaders and coaches recognize how attitudes - both their own and those of the people they coach - prevent individuals from reaching their potential. Replacing these with[...]

In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged. Here Barbara Ladd offers powerful new readings of three southern[...]

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds ...'For me, THEIR EYES WERE W[...]

Covers a wide variety of areas, including recycling and environmental, casting and solidification, wrought alloys and forming processes, welding and joining, corrosion and coatings, automotive and other applications, microstructure and properties, thermodynamics and fundamental research, and alloy d[...]

This book presents the state-of-the-art of carbon dioxide metallurgical reduction and decreased use of carbon. Readers will find papers concerning the efficient reduction of carbon dioxide and properly tailoring extractive metallurgical techniques to improve fuel self-sufficiency in a cost-effective[...]

This book covers energy conservation and new technologies needed within the materials field for today's climate of high energy costs and environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Also included in this book are papers from the second symposium on carbon dioxide reduction metallurgy. Th[...]

Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance