Clark: 4067 books
Thrive
How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Mental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, and...
Like Night and Day
Unionization in a Southern Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher...
In Defense of Self
How the Immune System Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
We live in a sea of seething microbial predators, an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of setting set up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thing keeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Self offers a refreshingly accessible...
by Simon Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Cemetery Dance Select series invites some of our favorite authors to spotlight a sampling of their own short fiction: award-winners, stories they consider their best or that had the most impact on their career—or neglected favorites they feel deserve a second look.
Long-time...
COLONEL CLARK'S CHRONICLES
The Memories of a Canadian Politician, Journalist and Storyteller of the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Colonel Hugh Clark was born on May 6th, 1867 on a farm on the Tenth Concession north of Kincardine, Ontario. He was a schoolteacher, a newspaperman, Lieutenant Colonel in the 32nd Bruce Regiment, and both a Provincial and Federal politician. He was still writing newspaper articles up until his death...
Monica
An Ordinary Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women of moderate status, who experienced...
by Kristy Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Types of DiabetesA Guide to Understanding Each TypeThis is volume 2 in a series of 5 Diabetes books.If you're a diabetic who wants to know the secrets of diabetes, diabetes prevention, and diabetes management, then you're about to discover and learn how to control each of the...
by Louis V. Clark (Two Shoes)
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In deceptively simple prose and verse, Louis V. "Two Shoes" Clark III shares his life story, from childhood on the Rez, through school and into the working world, and ultimately as an elder, grandfather, and published poet. How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century explores Clark’s deeply...
To Know and Love God
Method for Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
It is the job of all believers, not just theologians, to serve God by discerning what is true about the crucial issues of life. Our task is to learn more about God. Our privilege is to love God passionately with our minds. Clearly then, spiritual life must have theology as one of its ingredients,...
Plotinus
Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians, but have frequently been dismissed by modern scholars...
The Political Animal
Biology, Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological...
Holy Legionary Youth
Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Founded in 1927, Romania’s Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe’s largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most...
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Un viaje lleno de glamour y sobresaltos hacia un final conmovedor y espeluznante.
La detective amateur Alvirah Meehan y la investigadora privada Regan Reilly reciben una invitación navideña para viajar, junto a sus esposos, en el recién inaugurado Royal Mermaid. La intención del patrocinador...
Waking Up to the Dark
Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In the tradition of Thomas Merton’s spiritual classic The Seven Storey Mountain or Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul, Waking Up to the Dark is a deeply resonant and personal project—a modern gospel that is an investigation of the relationship between darkness and the soul. The darkness Clark Strand...