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Fattitudes
Beat Self-Defeat and Win Your War with Weight
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2000
What's keeping you from slimming down? It may be Fattitudes! Fattitudes are the thoughts and feelings that sabotage your weight--loss goals. Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilbert and his wife Norean, who have had personal and professional experience fighting the war against fattitudes, tell you how to stop self-sabotage.
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The Making of Americans
Democracy and Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our childrenWhy, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive and thought-provoking book, educational...
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Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Apostrophes VIII
Nothing Is But You and I
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath —from “Lost” Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite...
by E.D. Blodgett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this collection by the well-known Edmonton poet, E.D. Blodgett, is an ode to the wisdom and divinity of silence. The poet muses on the quiet of the outdoors and the mysterious relationship that exists between spaces of silence within a city's limits. Most of the short lyrics that make up this sublime...
by E.D. Blodgett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing as they encounter the world. These sparse poems move through acceptance...
by Adele D. Jones (Editor), Jacqueline A. Padmore (Editor), Priya E. Maharaj (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
HIV-AIDS and Social Work Practice in the Caribbean demonstrates how social workers, working alongside heath care professionals can contribute to the multi-disciplinary intervention in the fight against HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean using the lived experiences of person affected by HIV-AIDS. Using Trinidad...
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World
Communication Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent...
by D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Shadreck Chirikure
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker...
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640
Turning the World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including...
How to Live a Life of Prayer
Classic Christian Writers on the Divine Privilege of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Everybody wants to live a life of prayer—but how?
The words of classic Christian writers still speaks to us today, addressing the questions and concerns we have about prayer. In this rich collection of encouraging writings, E. M. Bounds, S. D. Gordon, Andrew Murray, and John Wesley thoughtfully...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
The Yellowhammer War
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.
During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their...
Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to...