Jacobson: 502 books

How to prepare simple, delicious meals on the trail If you think eating in the backcountry means either cooking out of your car trunk on a multiburner stove or subsisting on dried fruit and freeze-dried pouch food, think again. In the first case you’re not really in the backcountry, and in...

A classic text and standard reference for a generation, this volume and its companion are the work of an expert algebraist who taught at Yale for two decades. Nathan Jacobson's books possess a conceptual and theoretical orientation, and in addition to their value as classroom texts, they serve as...

A classic text and standard reference for a generation, this volume and its companion are the work of an expert algebraist who taught at Yale for more than three decades. Nathan Jacobson's books possess a conceptual and theoretical orientation; in addition to their value as classroom texts, they serve...

An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped...

From the introduction: "Now for full disclosure, sometimes I do not make the noble choice . . . [and] I know when I fail to expend the energy needed to make a conscious decision that it takes a toll on my relationship. Here's where this book becomes a gift. Because once we understand the natural laws...

  SEMAT (Software Engineering Methods and Theory) is an international initiative designed to identify a common ground, or universal standard, for software engineering. It is supported by some of the most distinguished contributors to the field. Creating a simple language to describe methods...

Non c’è pace per i due amanti di Amberdel... Quando Matilda ha rivisto Percival molti anni dopo il loro primo incontro, il destino sembrava sorriderle: il principe azzurro della sua infanzia si era innamorato della splendida donna che era diventata, però... non sempre le favole filano lisce e ora...

Dopo le terribili rivelazioni della sua amica Erika e il suo ritorno precipitoso a Parigi, la bella Zoé è pronta a cancellare definitivamente dalla sua vita Terrence Grant, l’attore Hollywoodiano più in vista del momento. Tra la malinconia e i preparativi del matrimonio di sua zia Hélène, la tregua...

On the seventh night of a Holy Ghost revival a six-year-old boy has just received the Gift. He is autonomous, he is content, and he is speaking in tongues. Hes been told the Gift would lead and guide him into all truth. While instability, confusion, and rage surround his family and home, the...

In a wealthy port city, there is a temple to the Whore Goddess called The Silk Rose. Famous as a brothel and gambling den that caters to all classes, The Silk Rose is run by priests who revel in their sexuality and promiscuity, protected by the goddess’s favor. A few streets away from The...

As Cairo swelters in the summer of 1986, spunky Egyptian teen Zahra pins on her hijab and faces the heat like a warrior, prepared to risk everything for a secret rendezvous with her lover. But after climbing the Ahmeds’ wall and sneaking into their household, Zahra’s parents catch her and force...

An intriguing prediction… A chance meeting with an old acquaintance, stirring new emotions… A game of cat and mouse that's anything but innocent. Electrifying passions…Do you believe in psychic predictions? Once, when I was spending a summer in England, a psychic read my future and told me that...

In the Victorian tradition, SteampunX is a serial novel released monthly.It’s 1875 on the Columbian calendar. Anowarakowa, the New World, has been at peace for a century. By treaty and vigilance the land has been divided among the English Colonies in the Northeast, New France in the South,...

What would you do if your hubby signed the two of you up for an extreme diet? Life without chocolate and junk food—completely miserable. Finding someone poisoned by a cake—even worse. Mollie thought she had enough problems to deal with when her husband threw out all of her chocolate...