Patricia Smith

All you need to know about this ancient eastern technique of acupressure.Almost every imaginable ailment can be alleviated using acupressure. Not only is it safe to use, but you can perform it on your own, anywhere, and with no required tools. Stimulating the key...

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the...

Compassion Satisfaction: 50 Steps to Healthy Caregiving presents 50 strategies for creating caregiving partnerships leading to healthier caregiving practices. Each strategy is followed by five helpful suggestions to aid helpers and organizations in creating authentic, sustainable care. In order for caregivers everywhere to be...

This book is the first of its kind to specifically look at the issues of how disability is culturally placed and contextualized in different societies. Within, it covers a range of professional, inter-professional, and international perspectives of culture and disability. It also begins to...

A massive cloud of hydrogen is travelling through space on a collision course with Earth. At a high-ranking meeting two astronomers, Edward and Joseph, are sworn to secrecy when they reveal that in six months' time, as the gas envelops the planet, it will...

Distant Suns - The Journey Home is the sequel to Distant Suns.The crew of the star ship Terra - the last hope to avoid extinction for the human race - are nearly two years from the dying planet Earth, when their four thousand year...

This anthology is designed for use in courses in feminist jurisprudence, jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. Feminist legal philosophy has generated a great deal of interest among feminists, philosophers, legal scholars, sociologists and political scientists in recent years. The readings in this collection...

Most of the recipes in this spooky cookbook can be made with the help of your children, if they'd like to get in on the action. There are a couple of adult drinks, too, and the treats are mostly suitable for work or school...

A Guide to Recognizing and Managing Compassion Fatigue - Presenter's Guide Level 1Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1440499454ISBN-13: 9781440499456Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2009Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.30d

A Guide to Recognizing and Managing Compassion Fatigue - Student Guide Level 1Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1440499446ISBN-13: 9781440499449Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2009Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.22d

Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award Winner, Abel Meeropol Award for Social Justice...

FROM THE POET the Chicago Tribune calls "the new voice of Chicago," comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture. L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who...

Leafy sea dragons may look like a plant and swim like a sea horse, but they aren't a plant or a sea horse (or a dragon). Pictures of these unique beautiful creatures will captivate the reader as they learn about where leafy sea dragons...

Leafy sea dragons may look like a plant and swim like a sea horse, but they aren't a plant or a sea horse (or a dragon). Pictures of these unique beautiful creatures will captivate the reader as they learn about where leafy sea dragons...

Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1483609308ISBN-13: 9781483609300Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2013Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1566892996ISBN-13: 9781566892995Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2012Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dAward: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/15/2012 pg. 14Publishers...

"When They Are Done with Us" by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline Brand-new stories by: Bill Loehfelm, S.J. Rozan, Ted Anthony, Todd Craig, Ashley Dawson, Bruce DeSilva, Louisa Ermelino,...

"Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings."--E. Ethelbert MillerAuthor: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1566891930ISBN-13: 9781566891936Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.20w x 0.28dAward: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/26/2006 pg. 33Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 83Entertainment Weekly 09/29/2006 pg....

A young woman's battle to escape a post-apocalyptic nuclear world results in a fight for her life and the need to seek help from an old friend. The long awaited sequel to Time Split.Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1542793777ISBN-13: 9781542793773Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2017Pages:...

Compassion fatigue plagues caregivers worldwide. When providing care to others without incorporating authentic, sustainable self-care practices into our daily lives, destructive symptoms surface. Isolation, emotional outbursts, substance abuse and reoccurring nightmares are just a few of the symptoms that can distress the life of...

Author: Patricia SmithISBN-10: 1499090714ISBN-13: 9781499090710Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2014Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from...