Miller: 6357 books
Integrated
The Lincoln Institute, Basketball, and a Vanished Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Integrated, James W. Miller explores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. He relates the story of the Lincoln Institute -- an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the court. In 1960, the Lincoln Tigers...
Solutions for Singers
Tools for Performers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
While many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique and performance, few have time to delve into the specific questions they spawn. Solutions for Singers explores these unanswered questions, filling in gaps that professional performers, students of singing,...
by Sloane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In this guide, Allergic Girl Sloane Miller shows how to best handle and address food allergies in your dating life.
Millions of Americans concerned about adverse reactions to food are seeking the advice of medical professionals and receiving a diagnosis of food allergies. Allergic Girl Sloane...
by Steve Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Steve Miller is a hugely successful life coach, motivational speaker, presenter and author. He has a wide-ranging audience in the UK through presenting the Sky 1 and Sky Living series "Fat Families", which has just been nominated for best lifestyle TV award 2011. This new book is a comprehensive...
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 37 percent of Americans identify themselves as spiritual but not religious. How to Be Spiritual Without Being Religious is a book for that sizable number of folks who seek a rich and authentic interior life but find formal religious affiliation unappealing....
The Book Whisperer
Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets...
Conversation
A History of a Declining Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state...
by Alex Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland...
China's Green Religion
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding...
The Contemplative Practitioner
Meditation in Education and the Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Meditation is a simple and practical activity that can enrich our lives and work in innumerable ways. It allows us to connect more deeply to ourselves and others and to the environment. In this book, John P. Miller, an expert in the field of holistic education, looks at mediation and how it can be...
by Henry Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration...
by John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The English Civil War is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History and John Miller is one of the experts on the period.
Amid dramatic accounts of the key battles and confrontations, Miller explores what triggered the initial conflict between crown and parliament and how this...
Egotopia
Narcissism and the New American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Egotopia explains why individual political and economic interests have eclipsed aesthetic considerations in the rampant billboards, malls, and urban sprawl of the New American Landscape.
Egotopia begins where other critiques of the American landscape end: identifying the physical ugliness that...
Blue Jeans
The Art of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item—blue...