Clark: 4067 books

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (9780137019960) by David P. Clark. Available in print and digital formats.¿ From hunter-gatherers to agricultural societies and beyond: How humans and...

Margaret Clark invites you to come into her Parlour - and die! Mike and Kristy have been packed off to Camp Star by their mother and it's the original camp from hell. Dumb Leaders blowing whistles and jumping around in shorts, gross food, beds like concrete and everyone going feral: the usual good...

Night Works is the story of fifteen year old Sophie, and her friends Mel and Kate. Told through Sophie's diary entries, the story highlights the girls' problems, families, boyfriends and everyday school lives. The power of friendship helps them face the world knowing they're not alone. In the tradition...

This is a love story of a miracle filled life.  It was love at first sight when we were 12, but she never saw me.  I lost her in the crowd at Disneyland, California.  I met her during a lightning storm when we were 26 years old. We traveled much of the United States and Europe.  We...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of the Nazis and his provocative prison musings about Christian faithfulness in late modernity. Although understandable given the popularity of both narrative trajectories, such selective...

Nothing could prepare Imogen Clark for the shock of discovering that her daughter was a heroin addict. "I discovered that my daughter was a heroin addict at 7.25 pm on Tuesday, February 13, 1996... I'm not very proud of the next couple of hours. I would like to be able to write that I gathered...

The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence...

In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the precarious balance between sea and land, wilderness and civilisation, while everything is played out in a context of...

Play Tennis Forever is a practical guide to slowing down the gradual decline in your body as you get older. Suzanne Clark has 30 years’ experience as both a Physiotherapist and a social tennis player. She explains in layman’s terms how your body works when you play and what you can do to make...

Most of us have heard the term or the concept of ‘tribulation.’ And when we hear that word we ordinarily think of hardship and discomforting times. Historically there have been many times of hardship and struggle for personal survival; often from warfare, famine, and pestilence. Those tragedies...

Our culture is obsessed with love and romance--so why are so few women experiencing satisfying, long-term love? In this insightful and encouraging book, sisters Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird help single women of all ages discover a radically better approach to navigating their love lives....

The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval...

This Victorian nautical novel was written by English author William Clark Russell (1844–1911), who tells the story of John Holdsworth, being chief mate of the "Meteor", and his numerous adventures. Holdsworth is driven by thirst and hunger, while the ocean scrences in this telling establish many of the author's thematic and stylistic characteristics.

While many recognize and understand this underpinning of our national interests, they stand helpless to do anything about it. As individuals, our voices are lost in the wind; while our national leaders of good will and faith refuse to attack the treachery head-on. It’s a wait-and-see game to hope...