books about: shrinking

books about: shrinking

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The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of ...

Roger Martin

Basic Books, 2003

How to transform a bureaucracy into a healthy organization
Roger Martin has lain down business organizations in the therapist chair, but you won't notice it because the author avoids skillfully the psychological labels currently in vogue. If you often wonder about why you end up working more than others, why some people don't ...

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Lynne Jonell

Square Fish, 2008

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
A diabolical nanny, a clever thoughtful little girl and a talking rat face off in this deliciously witty and intelligent story. Emmy is an exceedingly well-behaved girl who enjoyed life with her parents and had many friends before an inheritance from a great uncle ...

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Richard Matheson

Tor Books, 2008

Great Writer, Great Deal!
Matheson is one of my favorite writers; many of his stories have been made into horror films, Star Trek scripts and episodes of the Twilight Zone. I was interesting to read the book after watching most of these same stories, rewritten, as film scripts. The ...

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?

Robert M. Price

Prometheus Books, 2003

A Brilliant & Scholarly Exposé On the Origins & Authenticity of the Gospels
The 2003 book "The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?" by Robert M. Price is a brilliant & scholarly exposé on the origins of the Christian new testament gospels. While many gospel believers view the gospels as having been written ...

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

Michael T. Klare

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Charting the challenges ahead
The charts alone tell the story of what lies ahead. The most striking figure for me is that the US, the world's sole superpower for the last 2 decades, holds 3.3% of the world's natural gas reserves yet produces and uses 18.5% of the world total - not sustainable long ...

The Incredible Shrinking Critic: 75 Pounds and Counting: My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss

Jami Bernard

Avery, 2006

Losing Weight Requires Head Work and Body Work
The thing about this book is that Jami, who lost 75 pounds, lets you see inside her head while she was taking the weight off. Let's face it, those of us who've tried to take this weight off before know all we need to know about weight loss: eat less, move more, stay ...

Stink (Book #1): The Incredible Shrinking Kid (Stink)

Megan Mcdonald

Candlewick, 2006

Stink-Great for Joduy Moody fans!
I am a big fan of the Jody Moody series, so I was thrilled when I heard they were coming out with a series about Joudy's little brother Stink! This book is well written and easy for young and old readers to understand. It is a very funny and enjoyable book! I totally ...

Hiring Great People

Kevin Klinvex, Matthew S. O'Connell, ...

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Refreshingly Thorough!
Not another book on hiring! Enough! Can any more be said that hasn't been said already? Can the same information be presented any better than it has before? I'll admit that I opened this book, part of McGraw-Hill's Briefcase series, with a bias to dismiss the ...

The Incredible Shrinking Adventure (Little Einsteins)
Marcy Kelman

Disney Press, 2008

The Little Einsteins team has found a Big and Small machine with the powerto make anything grow or shrink. But there's a problem-the machine breaks andshrinks the Little Einsteins and Rocket! The team has a mission-they needto find a missing piece of the machine to make themselves grow big again.Young readers will have fun lifting the flaps to ...

You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World

Gayle Forman

Rodale Books, 2006

Better Gayle than I
Gayle Forman and I occupy the far ends of the Bell Curve of travelers. She goes to Paris and never visits the Louvre; I often head to that glorious depository of art as soon as I've unpacked. But when it comes to travel books, I don't want to read about visits to the ...

Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon: Nature Activities for All Ages

Edward Duensing

Fulcrum Publishing, 1997

Take it from a nature teacher!
I teach nature to boys in a summer camp and have used this book more than any other in my reference library...the pages are almost worn out! It's perfect in the language it uses and the activities are always fun. I have never recommended a book before, but couldn't ...

Shrinking Violet

Cari Best

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2001

Violet Saves the Day.....
For as long as Violet could remember, she didn't like to be watched. "I am allergic to attention." Being watched made her cheeks blush rhubarb red and when everyone stared, she itched and scratched and twirled her hair. Class bully, Irwin, made things even worse. ...

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Richard Matheson

Tor Books, 2001

True Science Fiction Classic
For those newly interested in Richard Matheson because of the new I am Legend movie, you will not be dissapointed with this book. One of his great novels along with I am Legend, Hell House, and A Stir of Echoes are all must reads.

Atlas of Shrinking Cities

Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006

extraordinary
I have not looked through the book completely, or deeply, but I can very assuredly say the atlas is extremely well considered and innovatively presented. Expect your expectations to be exceeded!

Extra Stuff for Shrinky Dinks

Klutz, 2008

Once you start making Shrinky Dinks, you never want to stop. With these five sheets of ready-to-decorate plastic, you can draw designs, cut them out, pop them in the oven and presto your art shrinks into mini-masterpieces. Its everything you need to keep shrinking, and shrinking, and shrinking