Wayne Miller: 14 books
Post-
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And...
Top Brain, Bottom Brain
Surprising Insights into How You Think
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the world’s leading neuroscientists teams up with an accomplished writer to debunk the popular left-brain/right-brain theory and offer an exciting new way of thinking about our minds. The second edition, with expanded practical applications, highlights how readers can harness the theory to...
King of Hearts
The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life.
This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton...
Car Crazy
The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Car Wars, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes readers back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era-from 1893, when the first U.S.-built...
Coming of Age
The True Adventures of Two American Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
G. Wayne Miller explores the drama and passion teenagers hide from everyone but their peers in this warm, funny, and eye-opening account of two kids from a small New England town as they come of age. As Dave Bettencourt, seventeen, begins his senior year of high school, there are many things he wants...
Cervello alto e cervello basso
Perché pensiamo ciò che pensiamo
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Sono così tanti i libri su questo tema che i due autori, consapevoli della cosa, si chiedono fin dalla prima pagina: «Perché un ennesimo libro sul cervello?». E con buon senso dell’umorismo si rispondono da soli, baldanzosi: «Perché questo è diverso». Se Stephen Kosslyn fosse una persona...
by Wayne Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Millions of Christians the world over pray to him every day. Few of those, however, know the true history of the patron saint of travelers. Few know that this gentle, pious individual was, in fact, a Cynocephalus or “Doghead”—in other words, a Werewolf. The Confessions of Saint Christopher:...
by Wayne Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry PickA series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out,...
by G. Wayne Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
THE WORK OF HUMAN HANDS is a timeless medical journey through pioneering surgeon Dr. Hardy Hendren’s legendary operating room that the Los Angeles Times called “impossible to forget.” Set at Boston Children’s Hospital, which U.S. News & World Report consistently rates as America’s best children’s...
Hawaiian Shamanistic Healing
Medicine Ways to Cultivate the Aloha Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Bring the Peace of Paradise Into Your Life Every Day, No Matter Where You Are
Aloha refers to the divine spirit of love that flows through all things. In this book, you'll learn how to cultivate the Aloha spirit with Hawaiian philosophy, Ho'oponopono, Lomilomi massage, and other traditional...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
Motivating Others
Bringing out the Best in People
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
The purpose of this book is to assist supervisors in becoming great motivators of todays worker. Perhaps no job in business and industry is more important than that of the supervisor-motivator. This person is a buffer, mediator, communicator, and jack-of-all-trades as well as motivator of others....
by Julie Miller, Joanna Wayne, B.J. Daniels
Language: French
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Une mission trop périlleuse, Barb Han
Folle de rage, Alice se débat pour échapper aux griffes du rancher musclé qui vient de l’arracher malgré elle aux criminels qu’elle traquait depuis des jours. Sans le savoir, il a fait capoter sa mission d’infiltration, et elle ignore à présent comment...
Leading the e-Learning Transformation of Higher Education
Meeting the Challenges of Technology and Distance Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Written by pioneers in the field of online learning, this book offers insights and guidance to the rising generation of leaders in the field of higher education. It explains how to integrate online learning into an institution during a period of rapid social and institutional change.This important volume:...