A Scott: 448 books

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

It has become part of US political convention to attack 'earmarks' - legislative provisions that direct funds to specific projects - as wasteful and corrupt. In this provocative book Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly argue that in fact earmarks are good for American democracy. Using extensive interviews...

Instead of running to the doctor every time you get sick, you can avoid the illness in the first place with the solutions offered in The Doctor’s Guide to Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails. No matter your current state of health, these easy-to-follow steps will help you elevate your health...

Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things. In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the...

Ivanhoe è ritenuto uno dei primi romanzi storici :le vicende si svolgono nell'inghilterra del XII secolo ai tempi della contrapposizione tra i Normanni vincitori e i Sassoni, popolazioni diverse costrette a condividere la stessa terra. Il protagonista del romanzo, Wilfred di Ivanhoe, è un sassone,...

University student David Asbury trusts no one and wants nothing more than to be left alone to study alien languages. For three years he has managed just that as an undergraduate at Shel Matkei Academy. But his scholarship, which is his only means of support as an orphan, requires him to become a diplomat...

According to recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 34.9 percent or 78.6 million U.S. adults are obese. In addition, about 17 percent, or 12.7 million U.S. children, between the ages of 2 to 19, are obese. In addition, obesity-related conditions, such as heart disease,...

Obsession is the story of a lonely house-wife seemingly trapped within a loveless and sexless marriage, working hard every day just to get to the end of the day. She doesn't realize just how lonely and passion-starved she has become until one day, quite out of the blue, she receives a call from an...

Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating...

Being at the right place at the right time is the theme of this debaucherous tale of lust and passion. Thea becomes the willing participant in a night of unbridled passion and taboo-breaking sexual escapades as she happens to peer through her upstairs window down into her next-door neighbor's backyard....

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The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism,...

When should you send a text message, and when is it more appropriate to talk face-to-face? What is the best way to prepare for a job interview that will be conducted over video? How should you modify your speech if it will be recorded and posted online?  **The Communication Age: Connecting and Engaging...

Contents The Two Drovers  By Sir Walter Scott  Mr. Deuceace  By W. M. Thackeray  The Brothers  Edward Bulmer Lytton  Doctor Manette's Manuscript  By Charles Dickens  The Caldron of Oil  By Wilkie Collins  The Burial of the Tithe  By Samuel...