Erik: 1534 books
Lost Mountain
A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing...
Nomad Codes
Adventures in Modern Esoterica
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes-spiritual, cultural, and embodied-that people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore,...
by Erik H. Erikson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1979
The two lectures presented in this important volume were delivered by Erik H. Erikson at the second annual Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanitites.
In the first lecture, entitled "The Founders: Jeffersonion Action and Faith," Erikson...
Sons of the Fathers
The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-1832
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Erik Root's book, Sons of the Fathers explores the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831D1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is possibly the greatest debate to have occurred in any southern state before the Civil War. The speeches in this book provide, for the first time ever, an unedited version...
No jardim das feras
Intriga e sedução na Alemanha de Hitler
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 8, 2012
De forma inesperada, o professor William E. Dodd, da Universidade de Chicago, é convidado para assumir a embaixada dos Estados Unidos na Alemanha em 1933. Junto com a esposa e os dois filhos adultos, ele parte para Berlim, decidido a manter-se neutro em relação ao governo de Adolph Hitler. A animada...
The Loyal Republic
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights....
Suggestible You
The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations...
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way...
The Spark and the Grind
Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
We’ve been conditioned to think about creative genius as a dichotomy: dreamers versus doers, creativity versus discipline, the spark versus the grind.
But what if we’re wrong?
What if it’s the spark and the grind?
We love people whose creative genius arrives in sudden sparks...
by Erik H. Erikson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1977
One of the most powerful (though deceptively simple) of current ideas is Erik H. Erikson's insight into the nature of the interrelationships of the psychogenic development of an individual and the historical development of the times.
This insight, present in all his work beginning with Childhood...
by Erik Larson
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Em 1º de maio de 1915, com a I Guerra Mundial chegando a seu décimo mês, um luxuoso transatlântico, decorado como um palacete inglês, saiu de Nova York com destino a Liverpool, levando um número recorde de bebês e crianças. Era surpreendente que os passageiros estivessem tão tranquilos, já...
La découverte du passage du Nord-est
1878-1879 : la première exploration
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Dans les pas d'un explorateur
Un possible passage maritime au Nord-est situé entre les océans Atlantique et Pacifique avait été envisagé depuis le début du XVIe siècle. Adolf Nordenskiöld est le premier explorateur occidental à parcourir entièrement la voie navigable septentrionale...
The Birth of Insight
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha’s most important gift to...
by Per-Erik Persson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The Driving Coach will put you on the fast lane to your driver's license through 22 powerful exercises. It will help you on your way to becoming a confident driver and it will save you valuable time and money. With the Driving Coach you will have a positive companion, always ready to motivate and help you focus on the right situations during your driving lessons.