Elder: 231 books
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa
From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both....
What's Race Got to Do with It?
Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Larry Elder and his straight talk are "controversial"*, "provocative"**, "iconoclastic"***, "refreshing". ****
IS LIFE UNFAIR FOR BLACK AMERICANS?
In What's Race Got to Do with It?, bestselling author Larry Elder takes on the touchiest topic in...
by Cato the Elder, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Revered statesman and soldier, Cato the Elder was the first important writer in Latin prose. His work ‘On Agriculture’ is famed for its direct, wise and grimly humorous style, providing a valuable insight of a contemporary farmer’s work, as well as interesting details of Roman domestic life....
The Shaman Speaks
How to use the Power of Shamanism to Heal Your Life Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
If you could ask a Shaman Elder any question, what would you want to know?
Forty-five questions are answered through the words of Shaman Elder Maggie who has practiced for over 50 years her centuries-old family lineage of Traditional Shamanism, trained by her own Shaman Grandmother.
See your life...
It Sure Beats Working
Here's Proof in Stories and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Since Dick Elder published Which Way is West in 2002, people have encouraged him to write a sequel about Colorado Trails Ranch, the dude ranch he built and ran for close to forty years. Elder used to entertain with stories and anecdotes about people who came to or worked at Colorado Trails. He kept writing...
by Dr Alexander Elder
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Two Roads Diverged: Trading DivergencesWhat you see on the surface is often deceptive, in trading, as well as in life. A trend may appear strong, while below the surface it may be weak and ready to reverse.This book will teach you to use indicators for measuring the internal power of...
Which Way is West
A Place or a State of Mind? One Man's Journey to Find Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
This is the story of a man who gives up a comfortable life to follow his dream. The timeframe for this tale is during a turbulent decade—the 1960’s. It was late in the evening during the fall of 1958 when Dick Elder placed a call to two friends…Jim Dodson and George Horton. He asked them to come...
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?
In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.
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by Pliny the Elder, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder’s encyclopaedic ‘Natural History’, composed in 37 books, remains an unrivalled compendium of Roman knowledge. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts....
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced innovative landscapes and vigorous, witty scenes of peasant life. He exerted a strong influence on painting in the Low Countries and through his sons Jan and Pieter, he founded a dynasty of painters that survived...
Great Is the Truth
Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A shocking exposé of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schools
In June 2012, Amos Kamil's New York Times Magazine cover story, "Prep-School Predators," caused a shock wave that is still rippling. In his piece, Kamil detailed a decades-long...
A Lot Like Me
A Father and Son's Journey to Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
“I hated my father—really, really hated him. I hated working for him and I hated being around him. I hated it when he walked through the front door at home. And we feared him from the moment he pulled up in front of the house in his car.****”
So writes conservative firebrand and popular...
by Elder, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Open a psychic doorway to the spirit world . . . .That's exactly what happened to Paul Elder following a neardeath experience at the age of 41a psychic doorway opened and his ordinary life has never been the same. Except that Paul Elder's life has never been ordinary.A former television...
Friendship, Robots, and Social Media
False Friends and Second Selves
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? In this book, Alexis Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing...