Jennifer: 8341 books
By Sword and Plow
France and the Conquest of Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer...
The Plague of War
Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece....
Inhospitable World
Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions...
In a Dog's Heart
What Our Dogs Need, Want, and Deserve--and the Gifts We Can Expect in Return
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
What our dogs need to live a good life, and why we must come through for them
Over the two decades she has spent raising and training service dogs for people with disabilities, Jennifer Arnold has come to a unique and profound understanding of the human-dog bond. Though it may seem simple and instinctive,...
by Jennifer Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
I am a fat girl who went from avoiding exercise to enjoying it. I'm not a doctor or a health care professional. I'm just someone who struggles with weight and who made a few revelations about exercise. I'd like to share them with you.
That Polio Season
Lt-Gov David Onley and the epidemic of 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sixty years ago this summer, the most severe polio epidemic on record claimed more than 8,000 victims across the country. About a quarter of those stricken with so-called infantile paralysis were in Ontario. Three-year-old Davie Onley, who would grow up to be the province's lieutenant-governor, was one....
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
A Day in the Life of Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Did you know that you can tell time in your sleep? That women have more nightmares than men? Or that up to half of the calories you consume can be burned off simply by fidgeting? In Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman takes us on an astonishing and illuminating...
Shock
An Investigation into the Startling Comeback of Electroconvulsive Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Few medical treatments are as fraught with fear, misunderstanding and controversy as electroshock, or electroconvulsive therapy. Most of us consider it a treatment of the 1950s and 60s, an option medicine and society have left behind. Yet ECT is experiencing a startling resurgence and is seen as especially...
by Jennifer Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Swimming, boating, surfboarding, or just lying around the beach or pool can be great fun. But thousands of people drown every year in accidents that are often preventable. Keep your family safe by learning how to recognize and avoid the dangers that lurk in and near the water from someone who has always lived near the beach ...
Ah-Choo!
The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery. In AH-CHOO!, Jennifer Ackerman explains what, exactly, a cold is, how it works, and whether it's really possible to "fight one off." Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common...
by Jennifer Baumgardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
--Jennifer Baumgardner is one of America's most prominent young feminists. --2008 marks 25 years since the passage of Roe v. Wade.
Spirited Waters
Soloing South Through the Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
* Mixes adventure travel with natural history in this solo kayaking adventure * Includes the author's hand-drawn illustrations In this insightful account of her solo voyage in a sixteen-foot kayak, Jennifer Hahn vividly relates the ecstatic moments and terrifying predicaments of paddling against the...
by Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The long-awaited new book from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller Spotless. It's almost a decade since the original Spotless took Australia by storm, selling more than half a million copies and launching Shannon Lush as Australia's most trusted domestic guru. Now the original team of Shannon...
by Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
SPOTLESS PETS is an essential guide for anyone who owns a pet, from Australia's favourite domestic gurus.
The messiest member of any household is often a pet! All that hair, all those unfortunate accidents ... SPOTLESS PETS helps you solve your pet stain dilemmas and saves you oodles of money...