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Pretty Birds
Random House Publishing Group 2005; US$ 15.00The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds , Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character?a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school... more...
Insights into Understanding the Financial Media
Thorogood Publishing 1998; US$ 180.00This practical and up-to-date Briefing will help you understand the way the financial print and broadcast media works in the UK. It will also provide you with techniques and guidelines on how to communicate with the financial media in the most effective way, to help you achieve accurate and positive coverage of your organisation and its operations. more...
Windy City
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds , Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing?as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport. The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, sitting in his boxer shorts, facedown dead in a pizza. The... more...
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 22.00In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR?s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It?s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their daughters, when the small girls are placed in... more...
Tanners of Taiwan
Westview Press 2005; US$ 32.00An ethnography of the leather-tanning industry in Southern Taiwan, Tanners of Taiwan examines what it means to be Chinese. more...
Sweet and Sour
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004; US$ 33.95Sweet and Sour is the first in-depth anthropological study of Taiwanese women entrepreneurs, their career ambitions, their family relations, and their projects of self-identity. Focusing on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves, Scott Simon draws from life-narratives of women from various ages, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations... more...
101 Interventions in Group Therapy, Revised Edition
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 72.95Every clinician looks for the most effective interventions to apply in group therapy. 101 Interventions in Group Therapy gives practitioners exactly what they are looking for - effective interventions in a clear, simple, reader-friendly format. This comprehensive yet concise guide provides 101 short chapters written by 78 leading well-recognized... more...
The Phantom of the Open
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00When 46-year-old crane driver and former comedy stunt-diver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open - having never before played a round of golf in his life - he ran up a record-worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes went nuclear, and banned him for life. Maurice didn't take it lying down. In a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse... more...
Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care
Wiley 2010; US$ 81.99PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE). The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice and educational perspectives. Whilst strongly advocating the imperative... more...
Transnational Governance
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95As globalization continues to spread and evolve, so nation-states attempt to govern financialization, tax evasion, corruption, terrorism, civil and military conflicts and environmental dangers, social polarization and the complexities in human rights implementation, by institutional and transnational means. This volume discusses these issues from different... more...









