From the publisher: Students and faculty in higher education increasingly reflect more diverse backgrounds, but this diversity remains rare in many leadership roles. In Leading from the Margins, Mary Dana Hinton celebrates the unique strengths of marginalized individuals, inviting them to embrace their leadership potential and make a difference. Drawing… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites and gangsters. And… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Blink is silly and Block is logical, and they’re best when they’re working together! Whether they’re searching for treasure, playing pretend or learning to compromise, Blink’s imagination and Block’s clever ideas turn any ordinary day into the most fun ever. This time, the pair find a pile… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Sarah’s infertility is a heavy weight over her life. Her situation looks even more hopeless when she is trapped for years in the harem of an Egyptian pharaoh. Upon being freed, Pharaoh gives Sarah a little girl named Ta-Sherit who was born in the harem. The mysterious… Continue reading »
From the publisher: The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. “[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg,” declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. Continue reading »
From the publisher: Best friends Sniff and Scratch love to play together! Across three giggle-inducing short stories, Sniff and Scratch have fun with toilet paper, they enjoy chasing each other’s tails and they snuggle with Sniff’s stuffed duck. These laugh-out-loud, pet-themed stories—with color-coded speech bubbles and easy-to-read text throughout—are perfect… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Braided and spiral loaves of challah have long been a delicious centerpiece of the Jewish table, but with a few extra twists, the beloved Shabbat bread can become a work of art that teaches Torah. In Loaves of Torah, Rabbi Vanessa M. Harper—creator of the hit Instagram account… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Sniff is a dog. Scratch is a cat. And they’re best friends … most of the time! In these three hilarious short stories, Sniff and Scratch find creative ways to reach a pie on the kitchen counter, Sniff panics when Scratch gets stuck in a box and… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Author Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the Museum’s new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met’s strict 75-word label format to describe people as intricate works of… Continue reading »
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