Bernard: 3655 books
Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in...
Picture Titles
How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles...
Boomerangs
How to Make and Throw Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
"Easy to follow instructions help the reader successfully make and throw their own boomerang out of materials found fairly easily in most areas of the country. A truly fascinating read." — Texas Kitchen and Garden and More
It only takes minutes to make a good, guaranteed-to-return boomerang....
by Bernard Helffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Bernard Helffer's graduate-level introduction to the basic tools in spectral analysis is illustrated by numerous examples from the Schrödinger operator theory and various branches of physics: statistical mechanics, superconductivity, fluid mechanics and kinetic theory. The later chapters also introduce...
Healthy Anger
How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? To a teenager's sullen resentment? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? How can we deal with their anger before it leads to depression, isolation, or even violence? In Healthy Anger, Bernard Golden...
Healthcare Information Privacy and Security
Regulatory Compliance and Data Security in the Age of Electronic Health Records
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Healthcare IT is the growth industry right now, and the need for guidance in regard to privacy and security is huge. Why? With new federal incentives and penalties tied to the HITECH Act, HIPAA, and the implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, medical practices and healthcare systems...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925. Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady. This edition of Mrs. Warren’s Profession includes a table of contents.
Exposed
Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Bernard Harcourt offers a powerful critique of what he calls the expository society, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.
Connecting with Coincidence
The New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
We've all experienced or heard of surprising events and unexplainable coincidences—money that seems to come from nowhere, a spontaneous idea that turns into a life-changing solution, meeting our soulmate on a flight we weren't supposed to take, or families being reunited by "accident" after years...
by Bernard J. Healey, Kenneth T. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice
Bernard J. Healey and Kenneth T. Walker
Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice
Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice uses concepts of prevention, epidemiology, toxicology,...
by Bernard F. Morrey, MD, Joaquin Sanchez Sotelo
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Revised to include the most up-to-date surgical techniques and their outcomes, Morrey's The Elbow and Its Disorders, 5th Edition, is an essential reference for today’s orthopaedic surgeons, appealing both to those in general practice and those with a subspecialty interest in elbow surgery. This...
by Bernard Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Much has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other yet, as the main protagonists realised at the time, success or failure rested on the effectiveness of their seaborne supply chain. Control of the Mediterranean was therefore absolutely crucial. In the...
by Rifleman Bernard Castle Stubbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The short, but poignant and action-filled diary of a South African fighting in the British Army in 1915 during the First World War.
Bernard Castle Stubbs was a bright and well-liked employee of the Union-Castle Line, enjoying his peacetime career at their head offices at Fenchurch Street in London....
by Bernard Wasserstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation.