S Thomas: 567 books
Proportionality Principles in American Law
Controlling Excessive Government Actions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to utilitarian and retributive theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power. These concepts all embody the fundamental value that government and private...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Opening to God
A Guide to Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Often, people feel drawn to prayer but are timid and unsure about how to pray. For over thirty years, this book has demystified prayer for countless thousands. Friendly and inviting, Opening to God, now available in a revised, updated edition, explains what prayer is all about, then turns to techniques...
Experiencing God
The Three Stages of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
In Experiencing God, Thomas H. Green, S.J., presents a brief and accessible guide to prayer. Green reminds readers that prayer life is, above all, a relationship with God and a deepening of our experience of God. Fr. Green, who died in 2009, spent a lifetime teaching fellow Christians to pray. Experiencing...
by Thomas S. Monson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
President Thomas S. Monson told the story "A Christmas Dress for Ellen" at the First Presidency Christmas Devotional in 1997, and an adaption of his address was published as a Christmas booklet in 1998. The story was related to President Monson by Marian Jeppson Walker (now deceased) , a daughter of...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a...
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...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
by Dana C. Kabel, Patricia Abbott, Charles Ardai
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
From a host of bestselling and award-winning authors come the stories from the darkest corners of their imaginations featuring one of the most abhorrent acts of mankind; cannibalism!
Throughout history, human beings have feasted on human flesh. Whether it was to survive starvation or to horrify...
Sex in the City - New York
Volume Four
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Travel on a journey to new places and sexual experiences with the Sex in the City series of destination erotica from Xcite Books. This volume contains four stories that take you to the heart and soul of the city, its places, people and lovers.
Volume Four: Introduction -Maxim Jakubowski Woman...
by Thomas S. Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
A rogue comet explodes over the earth, unleashing an unimaginable hell for two lonely guys stuck working late at the local grease pit. Unaware of the comet, the two wonder why the sky looks so weird, but never expect anything more than some rough weather. Before they know it, though, they're...
The Chinese Typewriter
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.
Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered...
Baptist Foundations
Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...
Iyengar Yoga the Integrated and Holistic Path to Health
The Effective and Scientifically Investigated System of Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Teaching and information topics include: a concise overview of the many aspects of yoga a vast amount of computer drawn illustrations and more than 500 photographs depicting the yoga postures a self-study guide to the yoga poses including seventy basic foundation postures with descriptions, techniques,...