Rogers: 1596 books

Why a Plant Based Diet is Best for Runners (and Everyone Else for That Matter!) In 1977 Jim Fixx published his book entitled The Complete Book of Running, which sold over a million copies and was instrumental in the launch of the American running boom of the late 1970’s. Fixx himself became...

Covering all aspects of sensory panel management, this volume describes the different types of sensory panels (for example panels for quality control, descriptive analysis and discrimination tests), discusses the issues involved with sensory testing, and gives detailed information about sensory panel...

Teaching special education can be challenging, yet rewarding. Theresa Franklin, an education mentor at the Mentor Me Career Network, shares her insights in Career Spotlight: Teaching Special Education. You'll learn: The career traits that will help you succeeds, the pros and cons of the professional, educational requirements, anticipated salary, long-term potential and more.

Teaching internationally, as appealing as it is professionally, is not for everyone. If, however, you are open to it, you have to read The Expat Teacher's Job Search Guide, the sum of our experience and our research. Written in language that is accessible to all, we do not sugarcoat nor are we overblunt...

POSITIVE THINKING REVEALED This book helps you to get a deeper insight into what Positive Thinking. In the world today challenges arise from almost every area of life and without the positive thinking aspect, it is almost impossible to go through life with the right attitude.I thought...

If you have ever daydreamed about traveling the world but don't think it's realistic, this book is for you! Two travel bloggers go through the common obstacles people encounter when they want to book a trip and give practical advice and encouragement to get them on a plane.

Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical—and unexpected—role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained...

Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a long-standing geopolitical issue. The expansion of the middle class in BRICS and Asian countries, and their increased activity in Western real estate markets as foreign investors, have introduced new and revived existing cultural and geopolitical...

From Portsmouth's historic Black Heritage Trail to a roadside museum called the Foolish Frog in the North Country, discover New Hampshire's little-known but fascinating attractions with this engagingly written guide.

In Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field, Alan Rogers and Brian Street draw upon their extensive experience in adult literacy promotion in many different countries of the developing world and the West, and on the work of many others (both researchers and practitioners) to try to understand...

This addition to Anissa Rogers' bestselling Human Behavior in the Social Environment expands the original text with new chapters on spirituality, families and groups, organizations, and communities. Written in the compact, concise manner of the original text, the new chapters cover mezzo and macro contexts, and offer additional material valuable to two- and three-semester HBSE courses.

A compassionate, practical guide to end-of-life matters, empowering us to clarify and share our wishes and continue to live life to the fullest • Addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you prepare well for your death • Enables the...

Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Drill reads data in HDFS or in cloud-native storage such as S3 and works with Hive metastores along with distributed databases such...

In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify...