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Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review).
In Babel No...
by Ruth Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.
Motherland
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Pamela Marin was fourteen when her mother died of breast cancer. After keeping her illness a secret from her daughter, Mildred Marin left her home in Evanston, Illinois, to spend her last months alone and without treatment in California. When she died in 1973, her husband buried the family's memories...
The Prostate Health Program
A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Can
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
What foods should you eat if you want to keep your prostate healthy? How does sexual activity affect the health of your prostate? What are ways you can prevent prostate cancer? What should African-American men know about prostate cancer? What are the best alternatives to radiation and surgery in treating...
by Robert L. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In this honest, sympathetic book, marital and family therapist Robert L. Barker offers real help for men and women suffering the emotional costs of a jealous partner's suspicion and rage. Based on his extensive work with troubled couples, "The Green-Eyed Marriage" answers these and many other questions...
Seeds of Terror
An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long...
by William C. Fuller Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” —Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University
by Peter M. Karsten
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1986
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq.
From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen...
Standing in the Need of Prayer
A Celebration of Black Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Striking photographs and powerful prayers drawn from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture span the broad spectrum of black religious traditions through the ages.
From the darkest days on slave ships to the defiant times of the Civil Rights Movement, prayer has...
The Source of All Things
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Tracy Ross never knew her biological father, who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. So when her mother married Donnie, a gregarious man with an all-wheel-drive jeep and a love of hiking, four-year-old Tracy was ecstatic to have a father figure in her life. A loving and devoted...
A Moving Child Is a Learning Child
How the Body Teaches the Brain to Think (Birth to Age 7)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
In order to learn, kids’ need to move! Grounded in best practices and current research, this hands-on resource connects the dots that link brain activity, movement, and early learning. The expert authors unveil the Kinetic Scale: a visual map of the active learning needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers,...
Handbook for Treatment of Attachment Problems in C
An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, an
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1994
Attachment Disorder occurs when a child has difficulty establishing new attachments if old ones are severely disrupted, and it is typically seen in victims of various types of trauma. This text seeks to explain how best to treat these children so that they can love and trust again and form lasting relationships.
by Milton K. Munitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.
Search For The Real Self
Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one’s real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society.
Personality disorders—borderline,...