Deborah Cohen Livres

In Humanity Works Better, leadership experts Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer chart a new path forward: one that brings humanity, awareness, choice, and courage to the workplace. The result? A happier work environment that draws the best—rather than squeezes the most—out of people.

Every classroom has children who persistently cause low-level disruption: calling out, falling out, not taking turns. This intensive social skills programme is designed to help children develop social awareness and an understanding of their own and others' responsibilities and behaviour, in order that they are able to concentrate and learn effectively.

On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.

"Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer

Set in 1519, the story follows Anne Boleyn, who is apprenticed to the aging Leonardo da Vinci at Chateau Clos Luce. As Leonardo strives to create a clock that can lift Anne's dark curse—inflicted by a Goddess due to her past dabbling in black magic—the consequences of this curse ripple through time, affecting Anne's descendant 500 years later. The narrative intertwines historical figures with elements of magic and fate, exploring themes of legacy and the struggle against dark forces.

Make the journey from potholders to woven art!