Snyder: 939 books
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began...
by Steve Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive
For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details...
The Etiquette of Freedom
Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations-harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world-move...
Your 100 Day Prayer
The Transforming Power of Actively Waiting on God
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
"Let's put aside any false humility or pride," author John Snyder says, "and come before God with boldness, asking for the moon." He reminds us that the Bible says we are to ask and then ask again. Over and over. Day in. Day out.
When the need is so great, so seemingly...
Overcoming Depression Without Drugs
Mahler's Polka with Introductory Funeral March
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In this revolutionary new book on music and emotion, Dr. John A. Snyder shows us how not to get depressed. Drawing on 40 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist, he demonstrates that antidepressant pills are dangerous, addictive, and don't work. What does work is listening to feelings and...
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Nine novels—including The Changeling—from the three-time Newbery Honor author who “led young readers into the wondrous terrain between fantasy and reality” (The Washington Post).
Blending realism and fantasy, Zilpha Keatley Snyder was a master at drawing young readers into mesmerizing...
The Great Clod
Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet of Turtle Island: a meditative, scholarly memoir of Asia—“a book . . . not quite like any other but trademark Snyder” (Kirkus Reviews).
Over the course of his singular career, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, essayist, environmental activist, and...
Science and Psychiatry
Groundbreaking Discoveries in Molecular Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Solomon Snyder has been instrumental in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology -- as a pioneer in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and in the explanation of the actions of psychotropic agents. Science and Psychiatry is a collection of some of his best scientific...
The Cliff Walk
A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, and what seemed like a secure middle-class future. But then Snyder lost his chance at tenure -- and, all of a sudden, he was out of a job.
The...
Hunting with Barracudas
My Life in Hollywood with the Legendary Iris Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
“In this vivid memoir, Snyder . . . probes the lifestyles of actors, agents and producers, depicting a high-octane Hollywood with a desperate dark side” (Publishers Weekly).
Hollywood’s famous child star agent Iris Burton launched the careers of the world’s current movie stars and celebrities...
The Ideology of the Offensive
Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies...
Leadership and the Art of Struggle
How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
All Leaders Face Adversity. Exceptional Leaders Thrive in It. Leadership is often a struggle, and yet strong taboos keep us from talking openly and honestly about our difficulties for fear of looking weak and seeming to lack confidence. But Steven Snyder shows that this discussion is vital—adversity...
by Emily Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of...
Dooby Lane
Also Known as Guru Road, A Testament Inscribed in Stone Tablets by DeWayne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
If left alone, what might a place say? If we must leave it, what must we leave behind? Guru Road, Dooby Lane. It was in this place where, nearly twenty years ago, Gary Snyder discovered, considered, and chronicled such latitudinal ruminations by way of one man, DeWayne Dooby” Williams, and the...