Thomas R : 646 books
Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
The Customer Trap
How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
American business is dysfunctional. Companies of all sizes follow the mistaken belief that their products and services are best sold through mega-customers with pervasive market reach, such as Amazon and Walmart. Far too many business leaders fail to realize—until it is too late—that the relentless...
by Joe Hill, Nancy Pickard, Duane Swierczynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...
The Imitation of Christ
A Timeless Classic for Contemporary Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
One of the best-loved spiritual classics of all time is now more accessible than ever. While many contemporary readers seek the richness of classical spirituality, some find the language and thought patterns of The Imitation of Christ distant and difficult to understand. Fr. Dennis Billy, noted teacher...
À l'heure de Moscou
Des nouvelles du Transsibérien
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Depuis cent ans, le Transsibérien parcourt les plaines de Russie. Il traverse neuf fuseaux horaires et mille gares, toutes alignées sur l'heure de Moscou. Et pourtant. A la fin de l'ouvrage numérique, retrouvez le code d'accès à la version web. Cette version enrichie propose une vision originale de nos nouvelles, avec un parcours géographique et de nombreuses surprises...
by R. Rebholz, Thomas Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims and rages. Wyatt had himself survived two imprisonments in the Tower as well as a love affair with Anne Boleyn, and his...
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...
by Lorrin R Thomas, Aldo A Lauria Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States...
Army Life in a Black Regiment
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied...
Das Haus am Ende des Weges ...
Auf den Spuren von Edgar Allan Poe
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Wer kennt sie nicht? Die schaurigen Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe? 59 Autoren haben sich an die Fersen des großen Meisters des Gruselns gehängt und sind ihm gefolgt, haben Geschichten geschrieben, die es in sich haben. Kaum weniger psychotisch, gruselig und mörderisch. Der amerikanische Schriftsteller...
Mother Earth, Bloody Ground
A Novel Of The Civil War And What Might Have Been
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
As Part Two of the Stonewall Goes West trilogy, Mother Earth, Bloody Ground continues to answer the greatest “what if?” of the Civil War: what if Stonewall Jackson had survived the Battle of Chancellorsville? Through a combination of misdirection and audacious aggression, Jackson led the hard...
by Fred R. Dallmayr, Steven Crowell, Gregory Fried
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism.
For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the “Black Notebooks” after...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
Love Me Slender
How Smart Couples Team Up to Lose Weight, Exercise More, and Stay Healthy Together
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Based on cutting-edge research with more than 1,000 married couples, this “revolutionary book” (Harville Hendrix, PhD, coauthor of Making Marriage Simple) shows you how to bolster your resolve by strengthening your relationship, offering a fresh approach to weight loss that will turn your spouse...