Nancy: 4645 books
Knitting Socks from Around the World
25 Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
This book collects 25 fantastic patterns for socks inspired by knitting traditions from around the world. Patterns from top designers including Star Athena, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Candace Eisner Strick, Chrissy Gardiner, Janel Laidman and Anna Zilboorg are featured, along with an introduction from Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks.
Eradication
Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian, but eradication—used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions—has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox...
The Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1999
It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as...
So Not Okay
An Honest Look at Bullying from the Bystander
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
There is no such thing as neutral.
According to the Ambassadors 4 Kids Club, one out of every four students is bullied—and 85% of these situations never receive intervention. Parents, students, and teachers alike have amped up the discussion of how to solve the bullying problem for a networked...
Early Warming
Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food-and to support the reintroduction of wood...
by Nancy E. Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them.
As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book,...
How to Reach the Hard to Teach
Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you—the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for...
by Nancy O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Breathe • Think • Meditate • Renew • Unwind • Relax • Feel at One With the Universe
Rushing through the day drains your precious energy, increases your stress, and makes you feel depleted instead of renewed. FIND A QUIET CORNER will help you change that. It is a caring companion...
Incredible Stories from Space
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Experience the Amazing Unmanned Journeys to Explore the Universe
In Incredible Stories from Space, veteran space journalist Nancy Atkinson shares compelling insights from over 35 NASA scientists and engineers, taking readers behind the scenes of the unmanned missions that are transforming our...
Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love
Relationship Repair in a Flash
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
“The most crucial relationship advice book since Men Are from Mars**.”—Erin Meanley, Glamour.com**
A groundbreaking, interactive relationship tool that literally places in the hands of couples the power to transform chronically frustrating relationship dynamics.
We've all been...
by Anne Hillborn, Justin Tosi, Brandon Warmke
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #3: February 2019
Featuring Ideas by: Anne Hilborn, Justin Tosi, Brandon Warmke, Daegan Miller, Samuel Levin, Sam Dresser, Kyle Arnold, Marc Lewis, Shaun Shelly, Omnia El Shakry, Richard Stevens, Skye Cleary, Thony Christie, Nancy Kwak, Jason Stahl, Claire Fuller, Nathan Schneider, and Stuart Clark
A Pathway to Senior Care in San Diego
Resource Guide for Adult Children and Caregivers to Seniors
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Choosing appropriate and quality care for you or a loved one can be an emotional and daunting responsibility. With the horrifying stories of senior neglect and abuse in newspaper headlines over the years, how do you determine between the good, the bad, and the ugly? In A Pathway to Senior Care in...
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path
The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The blank page, the impossible deadline, the rush of inspiration: There is no profession more maddening or more rewarding than being a writer. Yet surprisingly, all writers pass through the same sequence of stages in the course of their careers. It was this remarkable insight that inspired veteran...
Escape from the Ivory Tower
A Guide to Making Your Science Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Mscientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. Many researchers have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from differcultures. They follow...