Clothed, female figure: stories

Clothed, Female Figure opens a singular investigation of women: mothers, daughters, gardeners, housecleaners, employers, aunts, nannies, friends. There are dispatches from haloed single-girl apartments in New York, from the horsetail scrubland behind the beach club, from the house behind the lin...

Cloud 9

“Sharp comedy and a serious purpose are splendidly combined in Cloud 9, Caryl Churchill’s provocative and amusing study of sexual politics… It unlocks the imagination, liberates the mind, and leaves you weak with laughter.” –Time Out“Audacious and savagely funny. Mesmerizing.” –Washington PostClo...

Cloud application architecture patterns

There are more applications running in the cloud than there are ones that run well there. If you're considering taking advantage of cloud technology for your company's projects, this practical guide is an ideal way to understand the best practices that will help you architect applications that wo...

Cloud computing in easy steps

Cloud Computing in easy steps will show you how to harness cloud computing in your everyday life. You may already be using cloud services yet didn't realize it! You'll learn how these new platforms can help you work and play more efficiently and more importantly, at any location you choose. The ...

Cloud of the impossible

A progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.

Clouds over alexandria

In the city of Alexandria, five students encounter political struggle and the casual cruelty of a harsh government, but ultimately love and resilience. In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundam...

Clouds thick, whereabouts unknown

Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compellingly captures the ideological and literary nuance...

Cloudy with a chance of starships

An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. Wi...

Club revelation

A timely, funny novel about attempts to convert Jews to Christianity in New York City.

Cluny

Clyde's

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.

Co-creation and smart cities

Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights a more robust value-based perspective on public service development and delivery, helping structure co-creation processes that foster responsible innovation and a systemic, value-based approach to sustainable urban development.

Co-creation for sustainability

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Co-Creation for Sustainability brings global SDGs to the local level, explaining local co-creation practices, the creation of collaborative platforms, and the empowerment of stakeholders to have a positive collect...

Co-motion

Paola Bacchetta offers an innovative feminist and queer set of theories and approaches for analyzing power, subjects, and alliances among activists, artivists and social movements.

Co-operativism and local development in cuba

A series of pathbreaking essays on the role of co-operativism, and the new co-operatives, in the democratic transformation of Cuba.

Coaching and mentoring for academic development

Learning through dialogue brings a powerful opportunity to navigate professional demands and meet the challenges of a turbulent world. Written for all who mentor or coach in universities, this book addresses a critical question: how can mentoring and coaching be an effective and accessible way to...

Coaching and mentoring young people

Written by an academic and practitioner team, this unique text combines rigorous research with practical advice to examine coaching and mentoring in youth work, highlighting the purpose of these interventions in supporting the transition of young people from adolescence to adulthood.

Coaching basics, 2nd edition

Great coaching makes a world of difference. Coaching is one of the quickest and most effective ways to advance the success of an organization. Yet it remains underused and misunderstood, and the term is often used synonymously with corrective counseling, encouragement, or the many helpful tactics...

Coaching employee engagement training

Coaching Employee Engagement Training is written for managers and other leaders who, regardless of their level of experience, wish to facilitate and support the development of truly engaged employees within their organization. Using clear suggestions on improving employee coaching skills, Coachin...

Coaching intervention for psychosis

China’s ascent to the rank of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy of its predecessor, until Mao became aware, not so much o...

Coaching training

Create made-to-order learning experiences that deliver results with Lisa Haneberg by your side. By emphasizing deep listening and empowering learners to pull coaching conversations forward, you’ll help coaches build experiences that count. Coaching Training, the third book in the ATD Workshop Ser...

Coaching winning sales teams

Through extensive research into elite coaches in the world of business and sports, this book investigates the mindset, skills and behaviours required to be a top sales coach and provides a range of practical models, tools and techniques for sales leaders and professionals to use.

Coaching with powerful interactions second edition

<b>From the authors of the bestselling book <i>Powerful Interactions</i> comes a guide crafted especially for coaches and all professionals supporting the work of early childhood teachers.</b>  <p>When the quality of interactions improves, relationships become deeper...

Coal miner's holiday

Coal mining stories from a self-taught writer.

Coal mountain elementary

"A tribute to miners and working people everywhere."--Howard Zinn

Coalition challenges in afghanistan

This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of ...

Coalition literature

In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusing on how migrancy and labor politics shape literary innovation. Along the way, Robles shows how wr...

Coastal sage

There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. Coastal Sage chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving ...

Coasts in crisis

Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited. Hundreds of millions of people living in these low-lying areas are subject to short-term coastal hazards such as cyclones, hurricanes, and destruction due to El Niño, and are also exp...

Cobalt blue

Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their family’s lodger Recently adapted into a stunning Netflix film, Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told wi...

Cobra

“Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.” —Michael ConnellyAt the start of this masterful thriller, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guest house in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It’s clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell...

Coca and the victorians

From its botanical origins to a global commodity – an interdisciplinary analysis of coca in 19th-century Britain.

Coca-cola, black panthers, and phantom jets

In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets shows how transatlantic exchanges shaped national senti...

Cocaine

A wicked novel about drugs and sex in 1920s Paris with nothing left unexplored.

Cocaine politics

When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the ...

Cock and bull

Cockfight

Thirteen stories explore domestic horrors and everyday violence, providing an intimate and unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America.

Cockpit

Code name kindred spirit

Code of the hills

In this blistering return to Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before as familial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everything he loves With his signature crackling prose, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory...

Code of the samurai

Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu.Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the Warrior. Bushido has played a significant role i...

Code of the samurai

Immerse yourself in the world of the Samurai with this classic text, translated and interpreted for the modern reader.Code of the Samurai is the four-hundred-year-old summary of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido—the ancient Japanese "Way of the Warrior." Bushido has played a major r...

Code the classics volume i

Take inspiration from the golden age of video games and write your own modern classics.​Learn the stories behind the seminal video games of the 1970s and 1980s, and create your own games inspired by them, using Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE. In Code the Classics Volume I, readers will find:​ Ga...

Code the classics volume ii

Code your own modern versions of retro classics inspired by the greatest video games of the 1980s.​Code the Classics Volume II examines the seminal video games of the 1980s and shows you how to create your own games, using Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE.Full of game design tips and tricks from t...

Code with the wisdom of the crowd

Code work

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the co...

Codes of modernity

Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s.