Leonard: 2410 books
The Two Faces of America
Denouncing Civil and Human Rights Violations Abroad While Violating Civil and Human Rights Here at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Leonard C. Garrett Sr. was born May 17, 1930 to parents sharecropping a 40 acres slave plot given his mothers parents when they were freed from slavery. Forced from the farm by the Ku Klux Klan, his parents fled to Tampa, Florida. An avid reader, He learned that outside the southern states, for those...
Whitetail Savvy
New Research and Observations about America's Most Popular Big Game Animal
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Wildlife author and photographer of more than thirty books (including The Encyclopedia of Deer, The Deer Hunter’s Illustrated Dictionary, and Whitetails), Leonard Lee Rue III provides the most comprehensive reference on whitetail deer ever published. This book will appeal to anyone remotely interested...
by Leonard Hammer, Frank Emmert
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Much has been written about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the case-law of the Court of Human Rights from a variety of perspectives; yet there seems to be a gap in the literature when it comes to the impact of the Convention in different countries and the question why this impact...
Report on Social Security for Canada
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world. It outlined what governments could do to ensure that all citizens could afford the food, clothing, and shelter necessary to participate fully in their community. Authored...
The Defeat of Black Power
Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists and separatists. While some form...
Black Rage in New Orleans
Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. In New Orleans, crime, drug abuse, and murder were commonplace, and an...
Against the Dying of the Light
A Parent's Story of Love, Loss and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How a father's struggle to understand his daughter’s sudden death becomes an inspiring exploration of life.
The sudden death of a child. A personal tragedy beyond description. The permanent presence of an absence. What can come from it? Raw wisdom and defiant hope.
Leonard Fein probes...
by Leonard Clever
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Breasts grow naturally during puberty and can change throughout the course of your life. They usually start developing when you’re between the ages of 8 and 13, but they can continue to grow into your early twenties and can change size and shape due to age, weight and pregnancy.[1] Although the...
by Douglas Flemons, PhD, LMFT
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
A relational approach to evaluating your suicidal clients.
Given the isolating nature of suicidal ideation and actions, it’s all too easy for clinicians conducting a suicide assessment to find themselves developing tunnel vision, becoming overly focused on the client’s individual risk factors....
Decompress
Live Your Life Free from Back Pain
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Dr. Leonard Molczans, DECOMPRESS: Live Your Life Free From Back Pain, offers readers a better solution for eliminating their chronic low back and neck pain without reliance on medications or spine surgery through the revolutionary technology of non-surgical spinal decompression. As many as 31 million...
Moon Rush
The New Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Veteran space journalist digs into the science and technology--past, present, and future--central to our explorations of Earth's only satellite, the space destination most hotly pursued today.
In these rich pages, veteran science journalist Leonard David explores the moon in all its facets,...
by I. E. Leonard, J. E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
A Solutions Manual to accompany Geometry of Convex Sets
Geometry of Convex Sets begins with basic definitions of the concepts of vector addition and scalar multiplication and then defines the notion of convexity for subsets of n-dimensional space. Many properties of convex sets can be discovered...
A License to Steal
The Forfeiture of Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent...
by Leonard Cheshire VC, Bede Jarrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Although Leonard Cheshire’s remarkable and heroic war service (he flew over a hundred bombing missions over Germany and occupied Europe and was awarded a string of decorations, including the Victoria Cross) had made death a daily companion, it was not until after the war, when he was called to the...