James L : 962 books
In the Valley of the Shadow
On the Foundations of Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
TEN YEARS AGO, Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer. “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music had suddenly stopped—the music of daily life that’s constantly going, the...
Schooling the New South
Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological...
The Ladder of Jacob
Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked...
Wise Up and Be the Solution
How to Create a Culture of Learning at Home and Make Your Child a Success in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
As parents, we simply want what’s best for our children, but sometimes the modern education system does not always cater to the individual needs of every child. Each child is unique and requires different amounts of attention and support. As your child’s first teacher, you are the most influential...
The Process of Economic Development
Theory, Institutions, Applications and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Drawing together recent changes in the debates with the history of the subject, The Process of Economic Development is a textbook with a story to tell. A discussion of recent events is integral to the book, with discussions ranging from
* the environment
* the debt crisis
* export led industrialization
*...
Animal Architects
Building and the Evolution of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great deal about how the animals draw from these neural...
Fundamentals of Performance Improvement
Optimizing Results through People, Process, and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fundamentals of Performance Improvement is a substantially new version of the down-to-earth, how-to guide designed to help business leaders, practitioners, and students understand the science and art of performance technology and successfully implement organizational and societal change. Using the...
RTI in Practice
A Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
A must-have resource for educational professionals implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) programs in their schools
RTI in Practice: A Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School is an innovative and timely guide that presents concrete, balanced...
Agricultural Policy in the United States
Evolution and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Agricultural Policy in the US: Evolution and Economics traces the foundation of US agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. Ancient Roman food and agricultural reform, English Corn Law and other...
A Darkling Sea
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don't disturb the Ilmataran habitat,...
The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their...
by James L. Fitzsimmons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation...
by James L. D'Adamo, Dr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Dr. James D’Adamo burst onto the world of natural medicine in the 1970s with his revolutionary discovery of, and approach to, healing based on a person’s blood type. Written in the infancy of America’s modern natural-healing movement, his first book, One Man’s Food . . . is someone else’s...
Finding a Purpose in the Pain
A Doctor's Approach to Addiction Recovery and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Addiction medicine specialist Dr. James Fenley, Jr. shares powerful life lessons and spiritual truths he's learned from twenty-five years of practice and from his own recovery journey through chronic depression, anxiety, and his wife's addiction.