Joan M Kaufman

Who Moved My Cookies?: Confessions of a Former Weight Watchers Leader

Jessie Newman was a smart, sexy, successful Weight Watchers leader who had it all, until she caught her cheating husband, in the act. After tossing him to the curb, she had to quit the part-time career she loved and wound up stuck in a dead-end job, watching her butt grow. Now, happily married to Ta...

Call Me Ella

More than just one woman’s search for information about the biological mother she believed had died in childbirth, this book explores the mind and feelings of an adopted child. Call Me Ella is a heartwarming and uplifting story about a young girl who considered her adoptive parents her “real parents...

To Prison with Love / America's Adoption Travesty

Sandy Musser, an adoption reform activist, and Founder of The Adoption & Family Reunion Center was sent to Federal Prison in 1993 in her work of reuniting families. It is the true story of a woman dedicated to the work of adoption reform who believes that closed sealed secret adoptions are immoral a...

Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform―education because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opport...

High-Velocity Consciousness: Deprogramming From Fear and Societal Mind Conditioning in a Techno/Media World

Concerns about economic volatility, terrorist threats or environmental disasters can make us more susceptible to societal mind conditioning: invasive technology, sensory overload or direct and subliminal propaganda. These can compromise our ability to think clearly and independently. Marinakis Kaufm...

Dogs, Dreams, and Men

This is a novel about longing and the possibility of fulfilment. Emma Bovary is the dog of Ann's dreams. Ann and Emma are part of the dogwalking subculture of Manhattan's Riverside Park, a place of chance encounters and passing acquantaince, where owners are only known by the names of their dogs.

Broken Three Times: A Story of Child Abuse in America

Broken Three Times is a narrative nonfiction book that chronicles one family's travails through the child welfare system. While this is the story of one family, it typifies countless others who get lost in the system. Each chapter of the family's story provides a launching point for discussing conte...

Dogs, Dreams and Men