Cynthia: 2564 books
The Naked And The Undead
Evil And The Appeal Of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The...
by Cynthia Hogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle, a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical, trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate...
by Cynthia A. Branigan
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The regal history of a revered, elegant breed
They were one of the first wild animals to come under the protection of humans. They have sat at the feet of the Pharaohs. Their likenesses have graced coins, stamps, seals, and coats of arms. And they have won the hearts of dog lovers worldwide...
by Cynthia Chalmers Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Beacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s. In colonial days, the area served as a strategic look-out point; in the early years of the 1800s it quickly developed into a home for the most prominent and fashionable Bostonians....
The Everything Astronomy Book
Discover the mysteries of the universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The Everything Astronomy Book, by noted SETI Institute scientist Dr. Cynthia Phillips, helps you stargaze with authority. The book not only provides clear descriptions of all the theories of the origins of the universe, it explains the facts about the planets, moons, and stars in language anyone can...
The Long, Long Trail
War at Home, 1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now.
David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge,...
Designing Better Maps
A Guide for GIS Users
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively. In Designing Better Maps, renowned cartographer Cynthia A. Brewer guides readers through the basics of good cartography, including layout design, scales, projections,...
Midlife Eating Disorders
Your Journey to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In most people's minds, "eating disorder" (ED) conjures images of a thin, white, upper-middle-class teenage girl. The ED landscape has changed. Countless men and women in midlife and beyond, from all ethnic backgrounds, also struggle with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, purging disorder, and binge...
Rein In Your Brain
From Impulsivity to Thoughtful Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Those in recovery are often stuck in a dangerous loop of making poor choices based on instant feel-good payoffs. Rein in Your Brain offers 10 proven techniques for intervening on faulty impulsive thinking and actions that have a negative impact on our lives and relationships.
Addiction--whether...
Shock Waves
A Practical Guide to Living with a Loved One's PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A user-friendly guide to helping a loved one with post-traumatic stress disorder--while taking care of yourself.
In the United States, about 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women experience, witness, or are affected by a traumatic event in their lifetimes. Many of them (8 percent of men...
I Hate School
How to Help Your Child Love Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Includes tips for home schoolers.What do you do when your child hates school?When little Sarah cries herself to sleep at night, when Johnny has tummy aches in the morning, something is clearly wrong. An occasional problem at school is one thing. But what do you do when school is the problem? When...
Counseling and Therapy With Clients Who Abuse Alcohol or Other Drugs
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Every day, huge numbers of people use drugs or alcohol for recreation, medication, celebration, stress management, social lubrication, or escape. The abuse of psychoactive chemicals touches individual lives in countless ways, and clients frequently hint in therapy sessions at problems related to substance...
Total Memory Workout
8 Easy Steps to Maximum Memory Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
How to remember what you don't want to forget.
Frustrated by your forgetfulness? Don't be. Memory lapses aren't necessarily a sign of age -- more often they are a sign of the times, as we're all inundated with important information to remember, from PINs and cell phone numbers to children's...
by Cynthia Tennent
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Small towns have the biggest hearts.
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In the split-second it takes to injure her knee, Lily Shue’s life goes from rising star to small town reject. Forced to give up her role as a trainer on a hit reality fitness show, she takes a job in tiny Truhart, Michigan. By the time Lily arrives in...