Best Selling Books by Melissa Harris

Using their experience as journalists and marketers, the authors instruct you on how to become a sharper everyday writer with communication skills that can be translated into any field.

What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and Liberal Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality, to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to devise strategies for overcoming it.

Creativity is not just painting or writing—it''s stepping outside the way you normally think to achieve greater happiness and personal fulfillment. With mindful, heart-based practices, 99 Keys to a Creative Life helps you make the most of your creative opportunities, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Nurture and strengthen your imaginative expression, as well as your link to what inspires you, by applying the 33 keys found in each of the three sections: awareness, intuition, and connection to spirit. These keys provide practical methods for daily inspiration and action, making every day more creative and successful. Presenting innovative ways to raise your focus and express yourself, author Melissa Harris shows you how to unlock the gate to a more creative life.

Melissa Harris’s dream of being a mother again shatters when a fertility doctor tells her she may never have another child due to a physical anomaly in her uterus. Determined to persevere, she undergoes nine surgeries and a year of fertility treatments until she finally gets a positive pregnancy test—only to miscarry both twins within the first fifteen weeks. When what she’s decided will be her last attempt results in her finally becoming pregnant, she’s told that this baby, Sam, is also at risk. While lying in a hospital bed for six days, trying to get to the golden standard twenty-four-week gestation mark, Melissa makes a decision—she will give this baby every chance to live, no matter what it takes. One Pound, Twelve Ounces is the journey of one mother’s determination to give her micro-preemie a fighting chance, and the story of that baby’s remarkable battle to survive.

La créativité déborde les seules frontières de la peinture et de l’écriture. C’est elle qui intervient lorsque vous cherchez, hors des sentiers battus, des manières d’être plus heureux et plus épanoui. Les exercices de prise de conscience et d’ouverture du coeur proposés dans 99 incontournables de la créativité vous aideront à saisir la moindre occasion d’utiliser votre créativité pour transformer l’ordinaire de la vie en une vie extraordinaire. Cultivez et renforcez votre processus imaginatif grâce aux 33 clés de chacune des trois sections du livre: Prise de conscience, Intuition et Connexion à l’esprit. Ces clés, qui débouchent sur des actions concrètes, vous inspireront et vous mobiliseront au quotidien pour que chaque journée soit un peu plus créative et réussie. En vous présentant des façons novatrices d’aiguiser votre attention et de développer votre pouvoir d’expression, Melissa Harris vous aide à libérer votre potentiel créatif.

Michael ''Nick'' Nichols has for decades created powerful and eloquent images of iconic wildlife species. His vision is to stir the emotions of viewers leading to empathy and conservation. Melissa Harris has provided a sparkling text not just of Nick and his colleagues at work in the field, but one which provides many fascinating insights into the conservation issues related to his photographic quests. Among these are the survival of mountain gorillas during nearly six decades of civil war in their realm, the horrendous elephant slaughter for ivory, and the ethics of trophy hunting, of killing lions for pleasure. This is an illuminating and honest book about some of the world''s greatest natural treasures and those who strive to protect them.--George B. Schaller, author of The Serengeti Lion and The Year of the Gorilla A Wild Life is Nichols''s story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols'' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book''s two central characters are the photographer--who journeys from the American South, via the photographers'' co-operative Magnum, to becoming lead wildlife photographer of National Geographic magazine--and the author, who travels with the photographer on assignment in Africa, to gain intimate and deep insight into her subject. Harris''s story also draws on meetings with some of the world''s leading eco-scientists--including legendary primatologist, Jane Goodall.

This collection of poems discusses the challenges and breakthroughs of life and how they shape and even explain the reasons of being.