Adam: 4614 books
by Adam Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Does a dinosaur exist in the Congo? Does a Yeti-like creature live in the jungles of Sumatra? Does a fearsome Death Worm inhabit the deserts of Mongolia? Explorer Adam Davies has traveled some of the most dangerous places in the world in search of these and other supposedly mythical beasts. In this...
Compassion without Compromise
How the Gospel Frees Us to Love Our Gay Friends Without Losing the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Loving, Biblical Answers on Homosexuality
In the next year at least one of these things will happen in your life:
• A family member will come out of the closet and expect you to be okay with it.
• Your elementary-age child's curriculum will discuss LGBT families.
• Your company will talk...
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy
Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Among the issues that continue to divide the Catholic Church from the Orthodox Church—the two largest Christian bodies in the world, together comprising well over a billion faithful—the question of the papacy is widely acknowledged to be the most significant stumbling block to their unification....
Storm Surge
Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A renowned scientist takes us through the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using it to explain our planet’s changing climate, and what we need to do to protect ourselves and our cities for the future.
Was Hurricane Sandy a freak event—or a harbinger of things to...
Hidden Genocides
Power, Knowledge, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained...
Enemies Within
Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations—a breathtaking race to stop a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil.
In Enemies Within, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman “reveal how New York...
by Adam Laats, Harvey Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s...
Sport, Theory and Social Problems
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries....
New Feminized Majority
How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Building beyond Lakoff's election-year best-seller, Don't Think of an Elephant, this new book shows how the values of American voters are dramatically shifting. With the arrival of the 2008 election year, a rising "feminized majority"-made up of both women and men-is emerging as the pivotal...
by Adam Taylor, Justin Donhauser, Franklin Allaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
American auteur Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams's genius for creating densely plotted scripts has won him broad commercial and critical success in TV shows such as Felicity (1998--2002), Emmy-nominated Alias (2001--2006), Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Lost (2004--2010), and the critically acclaimed...
Adoption Nation
How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families -- and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality,...
by Adam Dodek
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016
A new, expanded edition of the first-ever primer on Canada’s Constitution — for anyone who wants to understand the supreme law of the land.
The Canadian Constitution makes Canada’s Constitution readily accessible to readers. It includes the complete...
Power of 10
The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Fitness expert Adam Zickerman presents a revolutionary exercise program – slow strength training – that will forever change the way people work out.
The Power of 10 seems to contradict nearly everything we're accustomed to hearing about exercise. Forget hours on the treadmill, and forget...
by Lonely Planet, Amy C Balfour, Greg Benchwick
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet's Discover Hawaii is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Surf the waves at Waikiki, drive up to the edge of a volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes...