L Thompson: 124 books

New Mexico had never seen rain like this. The school is hit first, the water flooding the classrooms, the teachers trying desperately to save the children, then trying to find some way to save themselves. The city's poor section with its ramshackle homes is almost instantly washed away, women...

Deep in the hollows of the Earth dwells a creature time has long forgotten. But now a tremor has thrown them back to the surface. Blind, afraid, they only know they must feed -- and reproduce. They find refuge in an isolated hospital and the people inside suddenly find themselves trapped in a battle for life against an ever-growing pack of monsters whose hunger can't be satisfied.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.   What “win-win” negotiation really means—and how to put it to work for you   Seasoned negotiators will tell...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.     Preparing effectively for negotiations even if you only have an hour… or a minute!     Sometimes you have...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.     How to negotiate successfully with people you can’t stand — and people you can’t resist.     You will...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats.     Practical strategies for building rapport on the phone, getting “in sync,” and negotiating more successfully....

***An all-in-one toolkit that empowers new teachers to meet the needs of diverse learners *** In this book, renowned experts give novice teachers the self-confidence and empathy they need to address what may be their greatest challenge: guiding disadvantaged students to success in the classroom....

When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental...

III. Language & Thought: Sharon Thompson-Schill (Volume Editor) (Topics covered include embodied cognition; discourse and dialogue; reading; creativity; speech production; concepts and categorization; culture and cognition; reasoning; sentence processing; bilingualism; speech perception; spatial cognition; word processing; semantic memory; moral reasoning.)

The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet in The Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that such claims are grounded in literary...

Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, so too has the diversity of students and contexts of use, placing the field in the midst of a curricular identity crisis. Spanish has become a second,...

Society in Focus: An Introduction to Sociology, Ninth Edition,emphasizes how society and socialforces affect everything from globalizationand international policies to day-to-dayactivities in our personal lives. In thisedition, the authors go beyond the merequestioning of issues to take a closer lookat...

This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later...

Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance, Second Edition, will help students and practitioners understand the function of the nutrients in the body and how these nutrients affect health and athletic performance. The authors present clear, comprehensive, and accurate nutrition information that may...