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Books by Robert Coles
  | | Doing Documentary Work(Reprint) (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) by Robert Coles Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by New York Public Library ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512495-8, ISBN: 0-19-512495-2 "Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is de ..." |
 | | The Mind's Fate(2nd Edition) A Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession - Thirty Years of Writings (Back bay books) by Robert Coles, Andy Ward Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1996 by Back Bay Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-15139-9, ISBN: 0-316-15139-4 "This collection of essays assesses the evolving fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The topics covered in this updated and expanded edition include the use of Prozac, the nature of white racism, William Styron's Darkness Visible and van Gogh's fever of genius." |
 | | The Call of Service(Reprint) A Witness to Idealism by Robert Coles Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-395-71084-5, ISBN: 0-395-71084-7 ""A moving and often inspiring account of how individuals try to be responsible for their world".--Washington Post. In this passionate book filled with profound stories, a Pulitzer Prize winner explores the compelling nature of idealism--what inspires it and sustains it, how it is expressed, and its importance to both individuals and society." |
 | | The Call of Stories(Updated) Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles, Peter Davison Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1990 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-52815-0, ISBN: 0-395-52815-1 "Teaching and the Moral Imagination Robert Coles. Introduction. :%£• THIS BOOK BEGAN in hearing my mother and father read to each other from novels by George Eliot and Dickens and Hardy and Tolstoy during my elementary school years." |
 | | A Life in Medicine(Reprint) A Literary Anthology by Randy-Michael Testa, Robert Coles, Penny Armstrong, Joseph O'donnell, M. Brownell Anderson, Joseph D'donnell M.D., Dr Robert Coles M. D. 352 Pages, Published 2003 by New Press, The ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-849-8, ISBN: 1-56584-849-7 "A literary collection edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the "Children of Crisis" series. Take notes. In the end, you will suffer alone. But at the beginning you suffer with a whole lot of other people.Lorrie Moore, from A Life in Medicine A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitari ..." |
 | | Handing One Another Along(1st Edition) Literature and Social Reflection by Robert Coles, Trevor Hall, Vicki Kennedy Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Random House Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6203-4, ISBN: 1-4000-6203-9 "In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this provocative book addresses such questions as, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” It calls on us to become stronger and more ..." |
 | | Lives of Moral Leadership(Reprint) Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference by Robert Coles Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by Random House Trade Paperbacks Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75835-5, ISBN: 0-375-75835-6 "In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others.Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how th ..." |
 | | The Moral Intelligence of Children(1st Edition) How to Raise a Moral Child by Robert Coles Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by Plume Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-452-27937-7, ISBN: 0-452-27937-2 "Robert Coles, one of America's leading authorities on young people, explores in this book a question crucial for many people today: How can you raise a child to be a good person whose moral character and strong values will steer and sustain him through life? This book distinguishes how moral intelligence is different from - but as important to success as - other kinds of human development, as significant as emotional or psychological gr ..." |
 | | Dorothy Day(Updated) A Radical Devotion (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Robert Coles, Randy Testa Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 1989 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-201-07974-6, ISBN: 0-201-07974-7 "Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mothe ..." |
 | | The Secular Mind(2nd Edition) by Robert Coles Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1999 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05805-4, ISBN: 0-691-05805-9 " Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay o ..." |
 | | The Spiritual Life of Children(Reprint) by Robert Coles Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1991 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-395-59923-5, ISBN: 0-395-59923-7 "See The Moral Life of Children and The Political Life of Children (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986). ... Freud for the encouragement she gave me as I hesitated long and hard before taking on the research that enabled this book. ... See The South Goes North, Volume III of Children of Crisis (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, ..." |
 | | Black Writers Abroad(1st Edition) a Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature) by Robert Coles Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-38955-7, ISBN: 1-138-38955-2 |
 | | The Hero's Trail(Reprint) True Stories of Young People to Inspire Courage, Compassion, and Hope, Newly Revised and Updated Edition by T. A. Barron, Robert Coles Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Puffin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-240760-8, ISBN: 0-14-240760-7 "What is a hero? Using the metaphor of a hiking trail, bestselling author T. A. Barron discusses the great variety of heroes and brings them to life through their own stories: Some are well known, like Wilma Rudolph, Anne Frank, and Stephen Hawking. Yet most are “ordinary kids” who have made amazing choices: saved their siblings from a fire, struggled to stop prejudice at their school, helped raise money to build a well in an African vil ..." |
 | | The Moral Intelligence of Children(Updated) How to Raise a Moral Child by Robert Coles Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-3842-4, ISBN: 0-7475-3842-5 "Robert Coles has written for many years of the personal aspects of childhood and the emotional and social development of children. In The Moral Intelligence of Children he goes deeper into the psychological foundation of the early morality he discussed in 1991's The Moral Life of Children. A child's moral archaeology, he tells us, is founded in infancy on the subtlest clues picked up from adults; he or she will absorb the parents' ..." |
 | | The Moral Intelligence of Children(1st Edition) by Robert Coles Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 1997 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-44811-2, ISBN: 0-679-44811-X "Robert Coles has written for many years of the personal aspects of childhood and the emotional and social development of children. In The Moral Intelligence of Children he goes deeper into the psychological foundation of the early morality he discussed in 1991's The Moral Life of Children. A child's moral archaeology, he tells us, is founded in infancy on the subtlest clues picked up from adults; he or she will absorb the parents' ..." |
 | | The Story Of Ruby Bridges(1st Edition) by Robert Coles, George Ford Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1995 by Scholastic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-590-57281-1, ISBN: 0-590-57281-4 "Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue!The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children ..." |
 | | The Call of Service(1st Edition) A Witness to Idealism by Robert Coles, Peter Davison Hardcover, 306 Pages, Published 1993 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-63647-3, ISBN: 0-395-63647-7 "A passionate study by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Spiritual Life of Children explores the nature of idealism and examines social activism as a basic impulse necessary to the individual and to society. 50,000 first printing. Tour." |
 | | The Spiritual Life of Children(Updated) by Robert Coles Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1992 by T.& T.Clark Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-599310-1, ISBN: 0-00-599310-5 |
 | | Anna Freud(1st Edition) The Dream Of Psychoanalysis (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Robert Coles Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 1991 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-201-57707-5, ISBN: 0-201-57707-0 "... following children, as they grow and change, become adolescents, become adults, and his way of thinking not only about drives and their vicissitudes (oral, anal, genital) but a much wider range of psychological events and developments: the particular manner in which a particular person deals with the many fates ( familial, genetic, social, accidental, historical, racial) that combine into the one overall fate called a life. In a ..." |
 | | The Spiritual Life of Children(1st Edition) by Robert Coles Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1990 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-395-55999-4, ISBN: 0-395-55999-5 "Addresses the religious and spiritual lives of children of various faiths, detailing, in youngsters' own words and pictures, their views on God, salvation, and the meaning of life" |
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