Sean: 2678 books

125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of shedding its limbs. The 60-plus species of snakes found in Sean P. Graham's American Snakes have this ancestral journey to thank for their ubiquity, diversity, and beauty. Although...

For the first time in human history, access to information on almost any topic is accessible through the Internet. A powerful extraction system is needed to disseminate this knowledge, which for most users is Google. Google Search is an extremely powerful and important component to American political...

Following on from Seoul Mates, Tears and Tragedy tells the tale of Teresa 'Terri' Outwell. There was a reason she gave Brooke the advice she did, and this book lets readers in on that reason. The course of true love doesn't always run smoothly. Just ask Teresa 'Terri' Outwell. Footloose...

" The idea that the Divine exists in everyone and everything is described well, although whether it is fundamentally supporting a Cartesian, Levinasian, pantheist or panentheist viewpoint is unclear (this ambiguity is arguably a strength)." Evie Kendal - Dark Matter Fanzine An unconventional...

In 1960, Democrats and Catholics united to elect John F. Kennedy, America's first Catholic president. As we approach the 2008 presidential election, the Democratic party is struggling to secure Catholic votes. For most of the twentieth-century, however, the Catholic vote was solidly Democratic. In...

Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert...

In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable...

With Thanksgiving Day almost over the kids are put to bed, what's the next thing you want to do? Black Friday is calling your name and so are the deals that come with it. You don't want to go in there with a blind eye and risk getting into an accident due to the overcrowded stores. Get a...

Author and researcher Sean Maclaren presents the first in a four-part series that reveals how the nearly 500-year-old Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, have designed, built and destroyed the United States of America.   Using examples from all sectors of society, Maclaren also details the mechanisms...

I’m sure many of us have suffered with test anxiety at some stage in our lives. Taking exams is bound to be stressful because of what’s at stake as well as the pressure from families, schools and universities for us to succeed. Fear of failure, letting yourself down, not feeling good enough or...

A Leafy Green World is the exciting introduction of Dr. Brent Holcomb. With his life and career on a steady downward slide, Brent moves to Portland, Oregon-it will likely be his last chance at redemption. Things go smoothly in his new home, he has even met Robyn, the girl of his dreams.Then a chance...

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R. Sean Morrison equip you to evaluate the available evidence alongside of current practice...

Our family included two teenagers and a toddler when my wife ended our twenty-year marriage. My three-year-old son, “Tyler”, was the angel that kept me sane as I descended into the depths of divorce. I had thought the divorce from the woman I had loved since I was nineteen had introduced me to...

Practical Approaches to Controversies in Obstetrical Care are offered in this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics. Guest Editors Drs. George Saade and Sean Blackwell have recruited authorities in the field to review issues including recurrent spontaneous pregnancy loss, treatment of thromboembolic...