Gillies: 64 books
Happens Every Day
An All-Too-True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two...
by Donald Gillies
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or electrodynamics,...
Keeper
One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Five years ago, Andrea Gillies— writer, wife, and mother of three—seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind...
by Eric Gillies Bernardez
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
A rare species is in danger. When a teen risks everything to help, his life may be the one in jeopardy.
Seventeen-year-old Marco Vega has a passion for biology. When a catastrophic storm destroys a research facility and causes mutation on a pair of monkey-eating eagles, the boy sets his sights...
The Barbed-Wire University
The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. He is the spruce, stiff-upper-lipped Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai, or Steve McQueen’ s cunning and opportunist ‘ Cooler King’ in The Great Escape, the all-American motorbike hero. If he is imprisoned...
Cooperative Learning
Integrating Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
*"Gilles focuses the majority of the book on the relationship in the classroom between the individual teacher and the students. She gives teachers ammunition to overcome resistance to cooperative learning by presenting well-substantiated research on virtually every page of her book showing the...
by Matthew Gillies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Ten Terrifying Tales of Extreme Horror by Dark Fantasy and Horror Author Matthew Gillies.
In this collection exploring the monsters of lore, a mysterious woman known as the Binding Bride lures men into the forest for reasons unknown (…And Her Beauty Spun Webs); a sexpat returns to a mysterious...
Army Wives
From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives...
Life-abet
An A to Z of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
With 35,000 plus followers on Twitter and regular spots on media websites, including the Huffington Post, The Poke and Buzzfeed, 28 year old Aaron Gillies aka @TechnicallyRon is already an established 'voice of a generation' with his popular, sharp and precisioned brand of visual comedy satire. Firmly...
Inside the Boardroom
How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors
In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's...
101 Ways to Workout on the Ball: Sculpt Your Ideal Body with Pilates, Yoga, and More
Sculpt Your Ideal Body with Pilates, Yoga, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
A full-color photographic book with 101 different moves you can do with an exercise ball. Exercise balls are cropping up in gyms all over the world, are sold in places like Kmart and Target, and are becoming the latest fitness craze. The thing is, what the heck do you do with the ball once you've...
A Year and Six Seconds
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A real-life romantic comedy about getting dumped and getting over it
Isabel Gillies, the New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, has written another irresistibly moving and funny memoir: A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story. When our story opens, it's a dark and slushy winter...
Starry Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Sometimes one night can change everything. On this particular night, Wren and her three best friends are attending a black-tie party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father. An enormous wind blasts through the city, making everyone feel that...
by Shai Biderman, Amanda DiPaolo, Darci Doll
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. David Lynch and Mark Frost created a land that embodies the politics of American culture. With its focus on small-town America and life outside urban centers,...