Al: 2273 books

It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t. Commencing with a brief history of neuroscience, from the ancient practice of drilling holes in the head to relieve headaches to the latest results from MRI and CT scans, this accessible...

The classic guide to what makes people survivors, now in a revised and updated new edition. Who survives? Who thrives? As a psychologist who spent more than forty years studying the phenomenon of survival, Al Siebert gained valuable insight into the qualities and habits that help human beings...

The science of Fingerprint and all the underlying genomic system was mentioned in the Glorious book "The Quran" since 700 A.D. Century in only few words “Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips” Fingertips refers to uniqueness of ridges on the fingertip of each person...

Politicians and media commentators in Pakistan have been demanding for decades the “restoration of the 1973 Constitution,” without realizing what it will mean. In its original form, the Constitution reflected primarily the wishes of Z A Bhutto. Still, he himself made seven amendments...

peak No Evil About Presidents. So say most textbooks, journalists, commentators, and even some historians. Not in this book. An eye opening look at all the evil done by presidents, mass murder, incompetence, and terrorism, and a look at the noblest presidents also. How many of these...

Read this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature produces the uncommon or the unique at one time or another, like the duckbill platypus. So it is...

Shaykh Daoud taught Islam from the Great Depression until the seventies as a religion that was the true light of the Civil Rights Movement. This father of American Islam paved the road for the Dar-ul-Islam, Jamil al-Amin, the Fuqara, Imam Isa and the Nuwabians, and Brooklyn's Masjid Farooq through...

Slavery is allowed in Islam, however Islam encourages setting slaves free. The Quran provides for emancipation of a slave as a means of religious atonement for sins. ‘Slavery in Islam’ contains information about Islamic rulings concerning slavery, treatment of slaves, Manumission, and Umm Walad....

On first impressions, Ted Bundy seemed like the perfect all-American boy. He was good-looking, fun and very charming; many women found him irresistible... But deep inside he was an evil monster who terrorised large areas of America, assaulting and murdering numerous women and adolescent girls....

Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in...

Each person is born into a religious environment that is not of his or her own choice; a child is raised in the religion or ideology of his or her family, society or culture. Even as a newborn, he or she is assigned the religion of his family or the ideology of the state; in some countries the child's...

After simmering in the background through the nineties, Iraq burst into the awareness of many when it became a battleground against the war on terror under the Bush administration. Few realize that in the midst of the fierce policy battles, one partially implemented state-building exercise took root,...

You've just spent the better part of a decade establishing yourself in the brutally competitive but incredibly invigorating Los Angeles "lowbrow / underground" art scene. You've gained some traction, you're in lots of exciting art shows, and you're even selling art and gaining...

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