Michael Page: 16 books

Drawn from the diaries kept by nurse and sailor Michael Page between 2007 and 2016, "The Nurse Who Sailed the World, a Travel Book and a Comedy" takes a light hearted look at his life and work across the world, in locations as diverse as Benin, Saudi Arabia and the rainforest of North East Peru. Embarking...

Increasingly, managers must make decisions based on almost unlimited information. How can they navigate and organize this vast amount of data? Essentials of Business Research Methods provides research techniques for people who aren't data analysts. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach...

This is Your Government on Drugs is a retired history teacher's take on the divisiveness and gridlock that have allowed problems to fester and grow since shortly after the Cold War ended in victory in 1989. The United States has spiraled into deeper debt and lost respect around the world as domestic...

What exactly is the Human Mind? Unique in this entire world, yes, but how exactly does it work, what exactly is it made of? Where exactly is it? And the question the author poses is—is your thinking mind actually what the Bible refers to as your spiritual soul? And if it really is a spiritual soul,...

One of the Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2015 "[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy...

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian...

Once upon a time, a student of molecular biology became curious about why his ideas should be the way they are. The ideas lived happily ever after. This text started as a collection of thoughts and ideas aimed at achieving personal clarity. It developed into something more ambitious: What if someone...

Keep off the Grass comprises nine original and vivid short stories developed from the author's nightmares: Keep off the Grass, Thick Skin, Cross Roads, Attack of the Karma Pigeons, Converse, Windows to the Soul, The Gauntlet, Decent and Wake Up to The Rain. Reactions to Keep off the Grass include: "Refreshing,...

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood’s heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren’t shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long...

Growing up has always been hard work, but our 37.1 Fall/Winter 2017/2018 edition perfectly documents life’s strenuous journey. Though we may have had different upbringings, we have all faced adversity and milestones. Whether it was overcoming personal, academic, professional or social hurdles, life...

Managers increasingly must make decisions based on almost unlimited information. How can they navigate and organize this vast amount of data? Essentials of Business Research Methods provides research techniques for people who aren't data analysts. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach...

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast...

Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...