Klein: 1140 books
by Herbert S. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
The first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations....
Primary Love
The Elemental Nature of Human Love, Intimacy, and Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
In Primary Love, Dr. Klein describes love and intimacy as they evolve in the context of family relations from birth to maturity in adulthood. Once the original attachment and the loving, intimate bond between a mother and her infant-child are established, primary love is founded and secured. Every...
by Elizabeth Klein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
References to the good angels in the works of Augustine are legion, and angels also play a central role in some of his major works, such as City of God and the opening of On the Trinity. Despite Augustine's interest in angels, however, little scholarly work has appeared on the topic. In this book,...
by Jean Klein
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
In the late 1980s Jean Klein was invited to give seminars in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. In this isolated, peaceful mountain setting, a small group of students gathered with their life questions. The conversations of the 1988 seminar were transcribed and printed as a pamphlet entitled Mount...
On Riemann's Theory of Algebraic Functions and Their Integrals
A Supplement to the Usual Treatises
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
A great researcher, writer, and teacher in an era of tremendous mathematical ferment, Felix Klein (1849–1925) occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics. His many talents included an ability to express complicated mathematical ideas directly and comprehensively, and this book, a consideration...
Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1
Formative Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Gregor Johann Mendel continues to fascinate the general public as well as scholars, the former for his life and the latter for his achievements. Solitude of a Humble Genius is a two-volume biography presenting Mendel in the context of the history of biology and philosophy, and in the context of the...
Necessary Mourning
Healing the Loss of a Parent through Jewish Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Necessary Mourning is written in an eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies providing a moving chronicle of the loss of Abraham-Klein's own father. This unique narrative crosses the boundary between psychology, spirituality and traditional Jewish...
A la recherche du réel
Présenté par Etienne Klein
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Qu'est-ce que la réalité?
Le physicien Bernard d'Espagnat aborde ici la question du "réel", défendant l'idée qu'il serait intellectuellement discutable de prétendre la traiter sans tenir compte des leçons de la physique moderne. Il apporte l'éclairage de la philosophie classique,...
Law and the Disordered
An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed...
The Running Mate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2000
Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another...
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
The Story of a Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction, the poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers—a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation...
Surrogacy
A Human Rights Violation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party. Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who...
The Two Selves
Their Metaphysical Commitments and Functional Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Two Selves takes the position that the self is not a "thing" easily reduced to an object of scientific analysis. Rather, the self consists in a multiplicity of aspects, some of which have a neuro-cognitive basis (and thus are amenable to scientific inquiry) while other aspects are best construed...
SheKnows.com Presents - The Mommy Files
Secrets Every New Mom Should Know (that no one else will tell you!)
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
And Jen Klein knows motherhood. She's survived changing a soiled diaper in a truck-stop bathroom while suspending a baby in mid-air. She's witnessed the judgment of the so-called "Mommy Mafia." She's found dried applesauce on her shirt. And in her hair. And the baby's hair. And the dog's fur.
Here...