Preston: 857 books
Depression 101
A Practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
When you have depression, it can feel like there's no way out. To begin changing the way you feel, you'll need an arsenal of proven techniques for lifting your mood and preventing relapse. The pocket-sized Depression 101 distills the most effective cognitive behavioral therapy skills available for...
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden? Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created by an unrivalled green-thumb visionary.
The stuff...
Oktober-kind (eBoek)
Elke lewe is kosbaar
Language: Afrikaans
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Hannah, ’n 19-jarige student, se toenemende angstigheid en skielike ineenstorting wys op die ontstellende omstandighede van haar geboorte. Hannah vind nie net uit sy is aangeneem nie, maar nog ’n skokkende waarheid word onthul: Sy het ’n mislukte aborsie oorleef. In haar woede en verwarring draai...
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
“Lauterbach’s tribute . . . is welcome and overdue.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
“A well-researched valentine to a lost world of seedy con men, promoters and club owners, the power brokers and hustlers who made the ‘circuitry spark.’ ”—Eddie Dean, Wall Street Journal
“Lauterbach...
Louise Talma
A Life in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected...
Foundations of Korean Martial Arts
Masters, Manuals & Combative Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Most of what are referred to as Korean martial art styles are actually derived from Japanese/Okinawan karate systems or find their roots in Chinese boxing. The Korean peninsula has existed as a fragile territory between China and Japan and thus shared many cultural elements...
by Gareth White, Dr Sheila Preston, Prof Michael Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and...
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities...
Get It Done When You're Depressed
50 Strategies for Keeping Your Life on Track
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Shake the blues away.
Everyone knows that depression can lead to guilt, sadness, frustration, and in the case of 15-20% of people with depression, suicide. Because we live in a culture that rewards (and often worships) productivity, when a depressed person can't meet the expectations of society,...
Operation Market Garden
The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces...
by Frank Preston Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Saving Creation
Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced...
Playing with Expectations
Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels...