Thomson: 610 books
First Writers—The Sumerians
They Wrote on Clay
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy.
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Habiru
The Rise of Earliest Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
In the Year 1230 BCE, the stately city of Shechem cradled between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal was suddenly disturbed out of her reserved formality, her closely-watched market, her liturgical inner temple routine, her orderly sentinelled turrets. A ?ood of people from every direction poured into her...
by Thomson Fontaine, Dalmacio Benicio, Joannes Mr. Mongardini
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is facing its biggest challenge in its 100 years of existence. The global economic crisis has significantly reduced its revenue outlook, which is having a disproportionate impact on its smaller member countries, and which calls for an appropriate policy response....
by Rachel Starr Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
What the world needs is more of Jesus, and the way it is going to see more of Him is if we as Christians love Him more-know Him better-believe and trust in Him with all our hearts. This collection of essays is specially written for God's "Samuel Generation": every believer who wishes to...
The 'Earth Summit' Agreements: A Guide and Assessment
An Analysis of the Rio '92 UN Conference on Environment and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
First published in 1993. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, in June 1992, was a unique event in the annals of international affairs. The ‘Earth Summit’ brought more heads of state and government together than any previous meeting, and five separate...
Tapping for Life
How to Eliminate Negative Thoughts and Emotions for Good Using TFT
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
• Would you like to eliminate anxiety, phobias or fears forever?
• Would you like to move beyond the emotional traumas of your past, increase your self esteem and become more motivated?
Welcome to Thought Field Therapy (TFT). No other treatment presently available, conventional,...
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 5th Edition
Breed Selection, Feeding, Fencing, Health Care, Dairying, Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This best-selling handbook is packed with detailed information on housing, feeding, and fencing dairy goats. It’s been the trusted resource on the topic for farmers and homesteaders since it was originally published in 1975, and the new edition — completely updated and redesigned — makes Storey’s...
Creative License
The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...
Detox Your Writing
Strategies for doctoral researchers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
There are a number of books which aim to help doctoral researchers write the PhD. This book offers something different - the scholarly detox. This is not a faddish alternative, it’s not extreme. It’s a moderate approach intended to gently interrupt old ways of doing things and establish new habits...
Linear Algebra and Linear Operators in Engineering
With Applications in Mathematica®
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2000
Designed for advanced engineering, physical science, and applied mathematics students, this innovative textbook is an introduction to both the theory and practical application of linear algebra and functional analysis. The book is self-contained, beginning with elementary principles, basic concepts,...
by Douglas W. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Meet Rob Mercy. Mercy is President of a local Cincinnati, Ohio bank and he has done well for himself. But as he reaches his 50th birthday, he realizes that life seems to be passing him by and he decides to do something he has never done before--run a marathon. No one thinks he can do this since he...
Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals
Strategies for getting published
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is...
by Eric Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn’t matter, are any others worth saving?
A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore’s Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly...
by Kristen Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Lately Cathy, a middle-aged comedian, has found very little to laugh about. Everything seems either tragic or frustrating, especially her eighteen-year marriage to Peter, a doctor at a local community clinic. Their list of complaints about one another grows day by day, and their teenage daughter is...