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Flannery O'connor's Georgia

Product Description: Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery OâConnor depicted in her fiction. Whether capturing highway signs proclaiming Christ or a restaurant five hundred yards up the road, the frenzied motions of persons seized by the Holy Spirit, or quiet folks, black and white, sitting on benches in town squares, these photographs portray strikingly and sympathetically the world OâConnor wrote about in her remarkable stories...read more

By Robert Coles (foreword by)

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9780820346144 | Reissue edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery OâConnor depicted in her fiction.

Open Field: Poems from Group 18

Product Description: Poetry. Group 18 is a poetry workshop meeting in Northampton, MA, since 1985. Numerous poets, many of whom are now scattered across the country, have participated in its regular weekly sessions. This volume celebrates 25 yrs of vigorous exchange...read more

By Doug Anderson, Donald Brees, Kurt Brown, Robert Coles and Trish Crapo

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9780983147107 | Small Pr Distribution, November 1, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey With the Refugees of East Africa

Product Description: Seamlessly combining spiritual writing, reportage, travel narrative, humor, and recent history, bestselling author James Martin recalls his time as a young Jesuit working with the refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing on his previous experience in the business world, he imagined that he had much to teach the refugees...read more

By Robert Coles (foreword by) and James Martin

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9781570759239 | Orbis Books, April 1, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Seamlessly combining spiritual writing, reportage, travel narrative, humor, and recent history, bestselling author James Martin recalls his time as a young Jesuit working with the refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

9781570752506 | Orbis Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $18.00

Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference

In an incisive study of moral leadership and its implications, the best-selling author of The Moral Life of Children profiles individuals who have had a profound influence on contemporary American life and examines those qualities that allow people to become moral leaders in their homes, communities, and nation. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Robert Coles

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9780375758355 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In an incisive study of moral leadership and its implications, the best-selling author of The Moral Life of Children profiles individuals who have had a profound influence on contemporary American life and examines those qualities that allow people to become moral leaders in their homes, communities, and nation.

Miscellaneous:

9780307764829 | Random House Inc, January 12, 2011, cover price $14.95

Reinforced:

9780606221498 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.40

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

By Robert Coles and George Ford (illustrator)

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9780590439671 | Ill edition (Scholastic, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Capturing the courage of a little girl facing racism and hatred alone, the true story of Ruby Bridges reveals how she helped shape American history as the first African American child sent to first grade in a white school

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9780606231893 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, September 1, 2010), cover price $17.20 | also contains Story of Ruby Bridges, The Story of Ruby Bridges | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Story of Ruby Bridges

By Robert Coles

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9780606231893, titled "The Story of Ruby Bridges" | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, September 1, 2010), cover price $17.20 | also contains The Story of Ruby Bridges, The Story of Ruby Bridges | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

9781417778928, titled "The Story of Ruby Bridges" | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, June 1, 2004), cover price $17.20 | About this edition: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Lives We Carry With Us: Profiles of Moral Courage

By Robert Coles

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9781595585028 | New Pr, August 10, 2010, cover price $24.95

The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap

Argues that micro-managing activities and experiences impedes the happiness and healthy development of today's children, and offers solutions for nurturing what really matters.

By Robert Coles (foreword by), Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise

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9780312263393 | Reprint edition (Griffin, April 7, 2001), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Argues that micro-managing activities and experiences impedes the happiness and healthy development of today's children, and offers solutions for nurturing what really matters.

Miscellaneous:

9781429979979 | St Martins Pr Griffin, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99

Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition

By Brian J. Mahan

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9780470621684 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, February 8, 2010, cover price $21.00

Children of Crisis

By Robert Coles

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Paperback:

9780385281348 | Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1974, cover price $3.95 | also contains Star Attack!, Star Attack!

Miscellaneous:

9780316090490 | Back Bay Books, November 29, 2009, cover price $10.99

Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, From Tolstoy to Now

Product Description: In a course he taught at Harvard Business School and elsewhere for many years, esteemed psychiatrist Robert Coles asked future money market managers and risk arbitrageurs to pause for a semester and reflect on the ethical dimensions of their chosen profession...read more

By Robert Coles (editor) and Albert Lafarge (editor)

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9781595583550 | New Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $25.95

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9781595584854 | Reprint edition (New Pr, February 2, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a course he taught at Harvard Business School and elsewhere for many years, esteemed psychiatrist Robert Coles asked future money market managers and risk arbitrageurs to pause for a semester and reflect on the ethical dimensions of their chosen profession.

Scared Silly!: A Halloween Book for the Brave

An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches.

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9781439599082 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.95 | also contains Scared Silly!: A Halloween Book for the Brave, Scared Silly!: A Halloween Book for the Brave, Scared Silly!: A Halloween Book for the Brave

9780613301176 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches.

Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars

By Robert Coles (foreword by)

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9781928706311 | Pariyatti Pub, September 1, 2008, cover price $15.95

House Calls With William Carlos Williams, Md

By Robert Coles

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Hardcover:

9781576874752 | Power House Books, September 1, 2008, cover price $29.95

It's Complicated: The American Teenager

Product Description: Robin Bowmanâs five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 âcollaborative portraits,â wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young peopleâs voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety, joy, uncertainty, and rage, the book charts the coming of age of the largest generation in Americaâ77 million strongâin every region of the country and every socioeconomic group: from a Texas debutante to teenage gang members in New York City, from a drag queen in Georgia to a coal miner in West Virginia...read more

By Robin Bowman (photographer) and Robert Coles (other contributor)

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9781884167690 | Umbrage Editions Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Robin Bowmanâs five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 âcollaborative portraits,â wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age.

When Invisible Children Sing

By Robert Coles

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9781414329659 | Saltriver, October 1, 2006, cover price $14.99

9781414361178 | Saltriver, October 1, 2006, cover price $14.99

Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community

The lives and work of Mexican migrant workers in their northeastern Ohio home are captured in colorful photographs and stories that convey their great pride in work and family, as well as their struggles and their joys. Simultaneous.

By Robert Coles (foreword by), Gary Harwood and David Hassler

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9780873388733 | Kent State Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The lives and work of Mexican migrant workers in their northeastern Ohio home are captured in colorful photographs and stories that convey their great pride in work and family, as well as their struggles and their joys.

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9780873388924 | Kent State Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The lives and work of Mexican migrant workers in their northeastern Ohio home are captured in colorful photographs and stories that convey their great pride in work and family, as well as their struggles and their joys.

Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy And the Buddha Within

A lyrical guide draws on Buddhist principles to counsel readers on how to identify the important things in life, presenting sample discussions between a psychotherapist and a patient to demonstrate how readers can create states of inquiry, place themselves into hypothetical situations, and act positively on inner thoughts. Original.

By Robert Coles (foreword by) and Robert Langan

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9780861713530 | Wisdom Pubns, June 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A lyrical guide draws on Buddhist principles to counsel readers on how to identify the important things in life, presenting sample discussions between a psychotherapist and a patient to demonstrate how readers can create states of inquiry, place themselves into hypothetical situations, and act positively on inner thoughts.

Well of Sacrifice

By Robert Coles

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9780595337156 | Iuniverse Inc, November 30, 2005, cover price $17.95

Political Leadership: Stories Of Power And Politics From Literature and Life

Spanning more than two thousand years, an illuminating anthology of outstanding political writings ranges from the great writers of the past to modern-day theorists, with contributions by Sophocles, Tolstoy, George Orwell, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Kennedy, Anna Freud, Carl Sandburg, and many others. Original. 20,000 first printing.

By Robert Coles (editor) and Ryan Smerek (editor)

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9780812971705 | Modern Library, October 18, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Spanning more than two thousand years, an illuminating anthology of outstanding political writings ranges from the great writers of the past to modern-day theorists, with contributions by Sophocles, Tolstoy, George Orwell, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Kennedy, Anna Freud, Carl Sandburg, and many others.

Earth's Elders: The Wisdom of the World's Oldest People

By Mark Chimsky-Lustig (editor), Robert Coles (contributor), Lama Surya Das (contributor), M. Joycelyn Elders (contributor) and Jerry Friedman

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9780976910800 | Earth''s Elders Foundation, September 28, 2005, cover price $29.95

La Inteligencia Moral Del Nino Y Del Adolescente / The Moral Intelligence of Children

Product Description: All children have an innate moral curiosity that can grow into a solid moral intelligence with deliberate cultivation by parents and role models. This premise guides the research and argument of this groundbreaking and insightful look into children's moral development; it is both a useful how-to guide for parents and a thorough study of juvenile psychology...read more

By Robert Coles

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9788472454057 | Italian edition edition (Karios Editorial Sa, May 28, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: All children have an innate moral curiosity that can grow into a solid moral intelligence with deliberate cultivation by parents and role models.

Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis offers a unique vision of musical legend Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of Springsteen's lyrics and profiling 'The Boss' as a poet within a larger social, cultural, and philosophical context. Reprint. 26,000 first printing.

By Robert Coles

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9780375505591 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, October 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Offers a portrait of Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of his lyrics within a social, cultural, and philosophical context.

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9780812973006 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis offers a unique vision of musical legend Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of Springsteen's lyrics and profiling 'The Boss' as a poet within a larger social, cultural, and philosophical context.

Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature

A collection of short fiction, compiled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, explores the world of education, teaching, and learning in works by Julia Alvarez, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, and other distinguished writers. Original.

By Robert Coles (editor)

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9780812971699 | Modern Library, August 1, 2004, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction, compiled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, explores the world of education, teaching, and learning in works by Julia Alvarez, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, and other distinguished writers.

Children of Crisis Reader: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series ; With a New Introduction by the Author

Selections from the author's Pulizer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series combine in a single, abridged volume, featuring a new introduction by the author, that explores the effects of poverty, wealth, ethnic background, and turmoil on the nation's young people.

By Robert Coles

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9780316155472 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Selections from the author's Pulizer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series combine in a single, abridged volume, featuring a new introduction by the author, that explores the effects of poverty, wealth, ethnic background, and turmoil on the nation's young people.

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