Want to know how to make it as a songwriter? Songwriting For Dummies gives you a chance to learn from the best. Performer, songwriter Jim Peterik is a 35-year veteran in the business and author of dozens of top-40 hits, including "Hold On Loosely," "Caught Up In You" "Rocking Into the Night," "High On You," "I Can't Hold Back," "Is This Love," ...
In the early 20th century, naturalist Mary Austin published this tribute to the land between Death Valley and the High Sierras. Edward Abbey has written an appreciation of her work as an early environmentalist.
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, "Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, Third Edition" has now been adapted to reflect current Canadian practice and to meet the needs of Canadian baccalaureate nursing students. Based on the biological-psychological-sociological aspects of mental illness, this text is ideal for nurses seeking ...
This concise volume examines exactly what is involved in keeping adequate clinical records of individual, family, couple and group psychotherapy. The authors discuss: limits of confidentiality; retention and disposing of records; documentation of safety issues; client access to records; treatment of minors; and training and supervision issues. ...
This fascinating autobiography is the culmination of the career of a major American writer. In many ways this autobiography is her most appealing book. Anyone interested in the literary history of the American West will find it indispensable.
Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the ...
Necessities and Temptations is two cookbooks in one - a collection of wonderful recipes and a handy kitchen reference guide. Contains 600 triple-tested recipes and helpful illustrations, charts, and tips, making the perfect gift for a new bride. Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies.
This compendium gives comprehensive information on current laws and policies affecting mental health professionals in the US. Areas of malpractice are examined and associated legal cases reviewed. The authors discuss the implications of the cases and the recommendations that have been proposed as a result of them; they conclude with their own ...
"If I Make It Through December" by Kate Austin From balance sheets to blue plate specials, Heather James has a lot to learn about running a restaurant. But a well-informed business plan isn't enough to prepare her for the holiday rush-- or head chef Sam Cappelletti. Is lasting love the bottom line... "Who Needs June in December, Anyway?" by ...
A precursor of Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" and a counterpoint to Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie", this 1912 novel deals poignantly and honestly with the costs of a woman's ambitions. Austin (1868-1934) portrays her heroine's decision to leave a dull husband in a Midwestern town to pursue an acting career and her rise to fame, against the ...
When "The Land of Journeys' Ending" was first published in 1924, "The Literary Review" warned, 'This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry'. In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the ...
One-Smoke Stories Is A Collection Of Folk Tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin. One-Smoke Stories introduces us to a multicultural treasury of character types: lovers, hunters, bandits, ...
Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. This text offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's ...
This book talks about skin as boundary and surface, metaphorically and physically: creative and critical perspectives on skin and bodily transformation as it intersects with digital technologies. In "Re: Skin", scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin - as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. ...
Best remembered for The Land of Little Rain (1903), which established her as a unique voice of the American West, Mary Austin was the author of nearly thirty books and hundreds of short works. Her essays, novels, plays, short stories, poems, and articles draw upon her impressions of the indigenous peoples and terrains of California, Arizona, and ...
Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates a crucial issue in California history - the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. The frenzied speculation in land and resources, labour protests, and feminist organizing of the time, are exemplified in the book by the story of one independent young woman.
In her autobiography, published in 1932, Austin speaks frankly about her life while also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and influenced her life and writing. A prolific writer, she wrote novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry. She was an early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of women and ...
These 17 essays by Mary Hunter Austin, author of "The Land of Little Rain", demonstrate her wide-ranging interests and varied writing styles. The introduction to this book establishes a biographical and historical context for Austin's work and each essay is prefaced by introductory remarks.
This celebration of the wild lands, parks, preserves, and wildlife of the greater Seattle area features more than 130 superb color images by renowned nature photographers Terry Donnelly and Mary Liz Austin, and an engaging text by noted Seattle-based writer Timothy Egan.
Using biblical analysis, the former audit partner of Price Waterhouse outlines the recent failures of some of America's major corporations and offers readers hope, encouragement, and practical guidelines for rebuilding core values in business, which will lead them to a reformation period of repentance and renewal.
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