Gratitude and happiness go hand-in-hand -- and The Thank-You Project provides an easy-to-follow approach for creating more of both.Who helped you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho approached a milestone birthday, she decided to answer that question by sending thank-you letters to the many people who had influenced her, helped her, and inspired her over the years: family, friends, mentors, teachers, co-workers, even a couple of former frie...

Beyond Proofby Nancy J. DavisBeyond Proof follows the life of Dr. John Martin, a cardiothoracic surgeon.Born as a child genius in the field of medicine, John is plagued throughout his life by recurring and very realistic dreams.These dreams suggest that John was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in a previous life, and achieved celebrated status for his work in heart transplants. Consumed with finding out the truth and some evidence, he travels to Cape Town. ...

"Once in a while a book comes along that is both unique and invaluable.... By reading and studying this work, practitioners can enrich the lives of their clients and their own effectiveness. [It] translates theory into practice and transforms mainstream counseling approaches into extremely useful devices for modifying the way clients and counselors function in therapy."Samuel T. Gladding, PhDDepartment of Counseling, Wake Forest University(Fr...

A collection of audiobooks 23 and 24 in the Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo series!Open Wide is a funny adventure that kids can really sink their teeth into! When Emma W.’s little brother Matthew overhears Katie talking about how awful going to the dentist is, he’s terrified! So Katie accompanies him to Dr. Sang’s in the hopes of calming Matthew down. Then in less time than it takes to say “open wide,” she herself turns into the dentist! A predicament, to be sure, but one...

A Hollywood icon and Asian superstar shares the inspiring story of her groundbreaking career.When Nancy Kwan burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, Asian characters in film were portrayed by white actors in makeup playing “yellowface,” and those minor roles were the stuff of cliché: shopkeepers, maids, prostitutes, servants. When—against all odds—Nancy landed the lead role in the much-anticipated 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, she became an internati...

This 2-book set includes Lies Young Women Believe and Lies Young Women Believe Study Guide.In Lies Young Women Believe, Nancy and Dannah expose 25 of the lies most commonly believed by your generation. They share real-life accounts from some of the young women they interviewed, along with honest stories about how they’ve overcome lies they themselves believed . They get down in the trenches of the battle with you. Best of all, they’ll show you how to be s...

The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker. Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments in epistemology and methodology, conceptualizations of sexuality, and mapping of the connections between race, gender, and empire. These writings demonstrate Wekker’s theoretical and political prowess, illuminating how her scholar...

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZEA powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964—students who came of age in the crucible of the Civil Rights Movement. Their stories uncover the bold choices of their ancestors who chose to stay and help shape the South.Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed, edited by Sonjia Parker Redmond and Beatrice J. Adams...

Healthy Cooking Recipes Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World One of the hardest things we can do in today's world is keep our bodies healthy. Yes, we might have the means, but we simply do not have the knowledge! If you step outside you will see dozens of fast food restaurants, all offering deals that seem too good to be true, and they probably are. Sure you'll get your fill, but how will your body feel afterward? How do we compensate for the extra fat and the high amounts of salt that we i...

For generations, coastal North Carolinians have prepared and savored time-honored recipes that are as much a part of their tradition as boatbuilding and netmaking. Home-cooked meals using the great variety of seasonal foods remain central to family life. In this collection Nancy Davis and Kathy Hart have preserved an important part of the heritage of this region.Here thirty-four Tar Heel cooks offer recipes that can’t be found in popular cookbooks or on restaurant menus. In Edenton...

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas—the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture....

The Family Mix: Essays on Family Life from Midlife Mixtape is a collection of best loved essays on family life by Nancy Davis Kho that originally appeared on her blog, Midlife Mixtape. Parenting, school days, home life, pet ownership: Davis Kho tackles them all with a sharp eye, self- deprecating wit, and the occasional '80s music reference. Whether it's laying down ground rules for elementary school play dates that include the 50/50 rule (if you'll only believe 50% of what your kid report...