Author: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: UPNE
Keywords: arts, textile, shaker
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 1980-03-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0874512425
ISBN-13: 9780874512427

A comprehensive book on the kinds of textiles the Shakers used, how they were produced, and their cultural and economic importance to the communities.

Author: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Keywords: fair, american, fundraising, history, ladies, amp, bazaars
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-10-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1572330147
ISBN-13: 9781572330146

Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon shows how women’s fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past.

Authors:Beverly Cobain Beverly, Jean Larch,
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Keywords: families, suicide, guide, healing, free, dying
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1592853293
ISBN-13: 9781592853298

Honest, gentle advice for those who have survived an unspeakable loss—the suicide of a loved one. Transforming suffering into strength, misconceptions into understanding, and shame into dignity, Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through the dangerous silence and stigma surrounding suicide to bring readers this much-needed book. Cobain’s achingly honest account of dealing with the suicide of a loved one, along with personal stories from others who experienced this profound loss, provide powerful insight into the confusion, fear, and guilt family members experience. A chapter about “the

Authors:Beverly L. Kaye, Beverly Olevin,
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: resources, training, professionals, essential, pfeiffer, style, profile, creative
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0787989665
ISBN-13: 9780787989668

Innovation is the key to maintaining a competitive edge in the global marketplace.The Creative Style Profile is the resource you need to determine your creative style. It will help unleash your potential to bring more excitement and energy to the workplace. It can also increase both your individual and group productivity. Additionally, by tapping into your creative potential, you will enhance your ability to build powerful collaborative relationships.The Creative Style Profile isn’t designed to tell you IF you are creative (we all are), but HOW you are creative. It is not a test of creat

Authors:Gordon Mathews, Gordon Matthews, Carolina Izquierdo,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: perspective, anthropological, happiness, pursuits
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845454480
ISBN-13: 9781845454487

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being defined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well-being is intimately linked to the idea of happiness and its pursuits. Noted anthropological researchers have come together in this volume to ex

Authors:Paul Gordon Lauren, Gordon A. Craig, Alexander L. Ge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: time, challenges, diplomatic, statecraft, force
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0195162498
ISBN-13: 9780195162493

Force and Statecraft is a concise historical account and insightful analysis of diplomacy. It combines history, political science, and international law in a unique interdisciplinary approach to explore how lessons from the rich experience of the past can be brought to bear on the diplomatic challenges that confront our world today. Now thoroughly revised, updated, and enhanced, the book combines the cumulative insights and reflections of three distinguished scholars with international reputations who have written more than fifty books between them. Paul Gordon Lauren has been involved wi

Authors:R. Gordon Halfacre, Anne Shawcroft, Gordon R. Halfac
Publisher: Sparks Press
Keywords: southeast, plants, landscape
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 1989-03
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0916822141
ISBN-13: 9780916822149