Steven: 5874 books
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle,...
Coping with Bipolar Disorder
A CBT-Informed Guide to Living with Manic Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Fully updated and revised, this new edition of Coping with Bipolar Disorder draws on the combined expertise of three leading specialists to offer a comprehensive and practical guide to the causes, treatment, and implications of bipolar disorder, or manic depression. Designed for people with the condition...
Lawyers' Poker
52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Great poker players are master tacticians. Not only do they calculate odds with lightning speed and astonishing precision, but they also cunningly anticipate and manipulate the actions of their adversaries. In short, they boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This highly entertaining work might...
The Importance of Being Honest
How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Popular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest, an incisive analysis of how honesty and law play out in current affairs and historical events. Drawing on original work as well as op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared...
Thea: A Vampire Story
Thea, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
How far would you go to protect your child?
Vampires are real - hidden among us, concealing their lust for human blood. But monsters come in many forms. Teenage boys, drug addiction, underage sex - single mother Sarah battles to keep these demons from her daughters.
As the long nights...
Larding the Lean Earth
Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic...
by Steven Gerali
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
"In this new series of books designed for anyone connected to teenagers, Dr. Steven Gerali addresses six daunting and difficult situations that, when they do happen, often leave youth workers and parents feeling unprepared. With a background in adolescent counseling, Dr. Gerali provides valuable...
by Steven Lukes
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil,...
The Great Delusion
A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should—even that they must—expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present...
by Neil Kay, Steven Kay
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Joseph Gales was one of the all-time great Sheffielders – forget Joe Cocker, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean or Michael Palin. These are all minnows compared to Joseph Gales – and their stories are boring besides that of the Galeses. The Galeses story has been forgotten and has not been brought...
by Steven Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The United States of America is not in the Bible. This was the statement of a noted and respected pastor as he was interviewed on a nationwide television talk show. When author Steven Grant heard that his mind started racing. As a seasoned pastoral leader with more than 30 years of education and experience...
by Steven Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
The Sacred Anointing:Yours! There are aspects of God’s anointing that are rarely addressed and often overlooked. The Sacred Anointing shows you the possibilities of walking in and experiencing this anointing. Full of personal experiences and wonderful miracles, you will find yourself on an exciting...
by Laura Steven
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
“Laura Steven simultaneously destroyed the patriarchy and made me laugh so hard I choked. I will protect Izzy O'Neill with my life.” —Becky Albertalli, author of SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA
Bitingly funny and shockingly relevant, The Exact Opposite of Okay is a bold, brave, and...
by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....