Jan: 4507 books
Ocean Worlds
The story of seas on Earth and other planets
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend, but in terms of their role in the Earth system, in regulating climate,...
Skeletons
The Frame of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical...
What Is Natural?
Coral Reef Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1999
During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and...
The Natural Brilliance of the Soul
A Soldier's Story of War and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
"Dr. Hatanaka's exhaustive research and analysis have resulted in a book that should be an essential tool for those professionals who are assisting our soldiers having difficulties adjusting to life after the stress of service in a war zone. Likewise, soldiers, their families, and their friends...
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless...
by Jan Oster
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Domestic constitutions and courts applying international human rights conventions acknowledge the significance of the mass media for a democratic society, not only by granting special privileges but also by imposing enhanced duties and responsibilities to journalists and media companies. However,...
Story of a Secret State
My Report to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German...
Our Street
A Chronicle Written in the Heart of Fascist Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
If ever a book had an unusual genesis. It belongs to that hybrid category 'faction', but the choice wasn't a literary contrivance, it was dictated by life-threatening circumstances. In the author's own words:'I know what will happen to me if I fall into the hands of the Nazis with these records....
La paz de Dios y del Rey
La conquista de la Selva Lacandona (1525-1821)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2015
El largo proceso de destrucción de las civilizaciones prehispánicas se inició con la llegada a América de los primeros europeos y no ha llegado aún a su término. Una de las víctimas de este proceso fue una pequeña tribu indígena del sureste de México, los lacandones, que, como señala Jan de Vos, fue totalmente exterminada durante el dominio español.
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
The Case of Nanette Leroux
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of...
Tackling Child Neglect
Research, Policy and Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.
Comprehensive and current, the book takes an expansive look at how we can better address this prevalent issue. It explores...
Artichokes & City Chicken
Reflections on Faith, Grief, and My Mother’s Italian Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Years after her mother’s death, author Jan Groft finally faces the silence and secrets that separated them. Prompted by a prolonged struggle with writer’s block, she embarks on a journey of listening with the heart. Part memoir, part spiritual guide, Artichokes & City Chicken is a candid and...
Ethnographic Fieldwork
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something...
Classical Arabic Literature
A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A major achievement in the field of translation, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars....