Salter: 183 books
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit***.***
He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, hope in adversity, and sacrifices...
Science is Beautiful: Disease and Medicine
Under the Microscope
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Our understanding of disease and the powers of medicine today are unparalleled, and their documentation has increased signficantly. Science is Beautiful collects the most fascinating microscopic photographs of our diseases along with the medicines we use to treat them. These photographs are profoundly...
Carl Schmitt
Law as Politics, Ideology and Strategic Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
There continues to be a remarkable revival in academic interest in Carl Schmitt's thought within politics and social theory but this is the first book to address his thought from an explicitly legal theoretical perspective. Transcending the prevailing one-sided and purely historical focus on Schmitt’s...
Gold Fever
San Francisco 1851
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In 1848 Yerba Buena was a sleepy, backwater trading post with 2,000 inhabitants living in tents, shanties and adobes. In 1849, John Marshall’s gold discovery reverberated around the world and the gold rush was on. Individuals lucky enough to be in California provisioned themselves with food, tents,...
The Toxic Consumer
Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Be scared, be very scared: toxic chemicals are in thousands of everyday products…and then they become part of our blood, our fat, our bodies. The chemicals that make things non-stick, flexible, flame-retardant, or stain-resistant are implicated in a staggering range of health issues, from birth...
by William M. Salter, Thilly Frank
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This book deals with the philosophy of Nietzsche whose work has exerted a profound influence on western philosophy and modern intellectual history; and presents his relation to his time and some characteristics of his thinking.
Our present age regards everything as the product of evolution, it tells...
by J.L. Salter
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Wrong place, wrong time… right stranger?
Julia Temple, the inexperienced, newly elected lieutenant governor of Tennessee, attends a private theater performance at a friend’s request. Partway through, chaos explodes as two busloads of dangerous convicts escape and terrorize the town. Somehow...
by Nathan Salter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
So many people are anxiously looking to find that special someone and get married. Many have failed to see how marriage takes more than Love. It requires work. In today’s society many Singles desire the thought of marriage, but have no real expectation as to what it takes. Inside this book you will...
by J.L. Salter
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Tricia Pilgrim reluctantly agrees to pick up a sort-of cousin she’s never met at a distant bus station and drive him back to Verdeville, Tennessee. She might as well. Everything’s already gone wrong with her mini-vacation weekend, there's an emergency at her job, and things can’t get any worse....
Supernatural Youth
The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are...
by Michael Salter
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice, and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking? Abuse on social media often involves betrayals of trust and invasions of privacy that range from the public circulation of intimate photographs to mass campaigns of...
by Kathy Salter
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Many children and young people in our schools are in need of someone to talk to. They have problems at home, difficulties with school work, or find that, for whatever reason, they just don’t ‘fit in’. A sympathetic listener who can offer some support can make all the difference. There isn’t...
Pieties in Transition
Religious Practices and Experiences, c.1400–1640
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, during and after the Reformation. It brings together leading and new scholars from England and the Netherlands to present new research on a subject of importance to historians of society and...
The Archive Project
Archival Research in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive' on how the traces of the past are researched, the use and analysis of different kinds of archived data, methodological approaches to the practicalities involved, and what kind of theory...