Miller: 6357 books
by Richard Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Religious violence may trigger feelings of repulsion and indignation, especially in a society that encourages toleration and respect, but rejection contradicts the principles of inclusion that define a democracy and its core moral values. How can we think ethically about religious violence and terrorism,...
Environmental Problem Solving
Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions...
Fripp Island
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
A small island along the South Carolina coast with a gently sloping white beach, live oaks, palms, pines, vast marshes with meandering tidal creeks and a surprising abundance of wildlife, Fripp Island captivates both residents and visitors. The ebb and flow of tides, the fortunes and difficulties of...
Quantum Change
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Most of us walk through each day expecting few surprises. If we want to better ourselves or our lives, we map out a path of gradual change, perhaps in counseling or psychotherapy. Psychologists William Miller and Janet C'de Baca were longtime scholars and teachers of traditional approaches to self-improvement...
Understanding Jesus
A Guide to His Life and times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
He’s the most important person in human history—and Understanding Jesus: A Guide to His Life and Times makes His teaching and impact clearer than ever. More than any other Bible character, Jesus is the person both Christians and non-Christians admire and want to better understand. From Stephen M....
Strange and Mysterious Stuff from the Bible
From the Weird to the Wonderful
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Stephen Miller, bestselling author of Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s Who and Where’s Where in the Bible, compares reading the Bible to driving a country road. “We’re cruising along reading a fine little story when suddenly we hit a jaw dropper of a narrative pothole. Right out loud we...
Hazards of Being a Man
Overcoming 12 Challenges All Men Face
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The problems men face today are not new; they have been around since the time of the Bible. Insensitivity, lust, individualism, absence, manipulation, unresolved anger--even a cursory study of Bible characters will expose all of these moral and emotional battles. Jeffrey E. Miller challenges men to...
Rainforest Medicine
Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant-based medicine and indigenous science from four...
Before Norms
Institutions and Civic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast...
Snarl
In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from...
by Stuart Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In Good Wood, New York Times contributor Stuart Miller takes readers on a journey through the rich and storied—and occasionally nefarious—story of the baseball bat and those who have made them and swung them. With over 50 photos, Miller reveals the creation, history, and development of the bat, brings...
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A personal essay detailing the author's early experimentation with astral projection, leading to his identification with the "spiritual but not religious" movement. Miller's experience began as an adolescent reading "The Projection of the Astral Body" by Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington,...
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Accomplished intuitive consultant and Enneagram teacher Helen Palmer tells the unvarnished truth about psychic capacities in this bracing and informative interview with D. Patrick Miller.
Bamboo Secrets
One Woman's Quest through the Shadows of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
While living in Japan in 1993, Patricia Dove Miller’s dream of a year of exploration and personal growth is shattered when her husband is detained on drug charges. Miller struggles with a sense of betrayal upon learning her husband’s secrets and yet she stands by him, fighting to save both him...