Ballard: 265 books
Maverick Quilts
Using Large-Scale Prints, Novelty Fabrics & Panels with Panache
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Are you drawn to bold, graphic, large-scale prints, but you're not sure how to use them in a quilt? See just how easy it is to let fabric prints do the design work and sew wild, joyful, colorful quilts!
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back
The U.S. at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates. It also evaluates the strategic execution of those military campaigns to identify...
by Edward G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is intended to offer an interpretation of an important aspect of Plato's philosophy. The matter to be interpreted will be the Platonic myths and doctrines which bear upon self-knowledge and self-ignorance. It is difficult to say in a word just what sort of thing an interpretation is. Rather...
Backpacker Magazine's Predicting Weather
Forecasting, Planning, And Preparing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Backpacker Magazine's Weather informs readers about how weather happens, how to predict and recognize weather patterns, identify cloud formations and know what they mean, develop weather awareness from basic meteorological concepts, and more. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two...
Elk
A Falcon Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, easily packable guides for identifying animals and learning about nature.
Paediatric Chaplaincy
Principles, Practices and Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Drawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.
By engaging with paediatric chaplaincy from an international,...
Emerging Values in Health Care
The Challenge for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.
This interdisciplinary volume explains how health...
by Ballard Hadman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Described in graphic & amusing detail, making a living from the sea. The artistic Ms. Hadman went to Alaska in 1938 to paint and draw, but while there met and married a fisherman in the Southeast. Here she tells of their isolated life in the village of Craig, and later in Sitka (hardly a metropolis...
by Liam B. Hershtale, Michael D. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Actions, they are what sculpt and define us as humans. The same holds true for our hero William and what defines him as such. As “The Haunted Forest” begins you find nothing different or even special about this boy until adversity finds him.
History of Oral History
Foundations and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field. The eminent contributors discuss the history and methodologies of a field that once was the domain of history scholars who were responding to trends within the academy, but which has...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones
The Life of a Cantankerous Confederate
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones (b. 1824) stands among the most notable Southwest Virginians to fight in the Civil War. The Washington County native graduated from Emory & Henry College and West Point. As a lieutenant in the “Old Army” between service in Oregon and Texas, he watched...
Passionate & Prioritized
Learning How to Put God First
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This 30 day devotional was written in an effort to help others overcome obstacles and adversities that hinder emotional and spiritual growth. The process of renewing your mindset will create an avenue for you to rewire your brain to positivity no matter what your obstacles may be. Whether your obstacle...