Jeffrey: 3395 books
by Jeffrey Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Is Canada a dictatorship – albeit a friendly dictatorship? In this thoughtful book, Jeffrey Simpson argues that the Liberal Party’s re-election to a third majority government must raise the question: Is Canada in danger of becoming a de facto one-party state, ruled by an all-powerful leader?
An...
Glasgow's Godfather
The Astonishing Story of Walter Norval the City's First Crime Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked...
Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... [Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells. But,...
by Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can be a source of dynamism, as when innovative firms raise wages to attract the best and brightest. But it can also...
American Egyptologist
The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Tim**e...
by Jeffrey Max Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The Westford Knight of Westford, MA, has a long and convoluted history since its first published mention in the late nineteenth century. The rock face’s punch carving has no known published records on its origin. For more than a century, imagination and pseudoscience built the modern mythology associated...
by Shawn Thompson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . ..
For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles...
by Jeffrey P. Schaffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
From the time the PCT leaves the Mexican border, until it reaches Canada, it has traveled 2,650 miles through 24 national forests, 37 wilderness areas, and 7 national parks. In Pacific Crest Trail: Northern Cali-fornia, you'll meet up with the PCT in Yosemite National Park's Tuolumne Meadows, then...
Birder's Conservation Handbook
100 North American Birds at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2010
Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while...
by Jeffrey Crimmel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This is the story of a young man who had a desire to travel and see the world. This nine-year journey gave him the opportunity to see our planet with different cultures and religions. The experience changed how he sees the world forever. Journey with the author and see what the world was like from...
Against Therapy
Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In this ground-breaking and highly controversial book, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson attacks the very foundations of modern psychotherapy from Freud to Jung, from Fritz Perls to Carl Rodgers. With passion and clarity, Against Therapy addresses the profession's core weaknesses, contending that, since therapy's...
Creation
Remarkable Evidence of God's Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
This book explores the powerful new evidence discovered in the last few decades by scientific research in astronomy, the nature of the atom and DNA. These discoveries have caused a revolution in the world view of thousands of scientists as they were confronted with compelling new evidence that our...
by Jeffrey Gowing
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
I have taken the time to document my exposure to dementia in the elderly solely in the hope that anyone who reads this might avoid the mistakes and missteps which I, and my family, might possibly have been able to be better informed about beforehand. My brother and I were very fortunate in that our...
The Unwanted Gaze
The Destruction of Privacy in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
As thinking, writing, and gossip increasingly take place in cyberspace, the part of our life that can be monitored and searched has vastly expanded. E-mail, even after it is deleted, becomes a permanent record that can be resurrected by employers or prosecutors at any point in the future. On the Internet,...