Thompson: 3849 books
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. Talking at the Woodpile is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, history and the contemporary and intriguing stories that begin as long as 10,000 years ago. An unsuspecting...
by John Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
John Thompson was part of the vibrant postmodern New York literary scene of the nineteen fifties, sixties and seventies. That scene was famously fueled by love, liquor, food and parties, but most of all by ideas, by words, serious and witty, spoken and written. Thompson’s only novel, never published...
by John Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday...
Life Hacks
The King of Random?s Tips and Tricks to Make Everyday Tasks Fun and Easy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
For the past few years, Grant Thompson has spent his weekends starting fires, building cannons, and experimenting with dry ice and liquid nitrogen. He’s made pumpkins explode, defied gravity, and discovered countless ways to make everyday life easier using ordinary items such as butter, suntan lotion,...
An Eye for the Tropics
Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the...
Bright Line Eating
The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Bright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose all their excess weight and keep it off. Are you ready to join them?
In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot...
The Un-Natural State
Arkansas and the Queer South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of...
A Sailor's Logbook
A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In this firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes, Mark Thompson weaves together the threads of a story that relives a centuries-old tradition. Thompson began his logbook after he reported for duty aboard the Calcite II at Fraser Shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin, for the 1996 shipping...
Political Scandal
Power and Visability in the Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a central role in politics and in the shaping of public debate. What are the characteristics of political...
Dunkirk
Retreat to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A gripping account, Dunkirk reveals the British Expeditionary Force’s (BEF) brave stand against the German army and the dramatic rescue of 338,000 British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in the midst of World War II. In May 1940, the small BEF was sent to help the Belgians and French against...
by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why...
by Jessica Thompson, Georgia Thompson, Maxine Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Family meals have always played a significant role in the lives of the Thompson sisters - Jessica, Georgia and Maxine. So much so that they created a blog, thebookerycook.com, to celebrate their love of food. Instead of photographing their chosen dishes, however, they made contact with artists all...
Waking, Dreaming, Being
Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the...
by John N. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
“It is not only the species that change evolutionarily through interactions . . . the interactions themselves also change.” Thus states John N. Thompson in the foreword to Interaction and Coevolution, the first title in his series of books exploring the relentless nature of evolution and the processes...