Tompkins: 102 books
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens
CBT Skills to Help You Deal with Worry and Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Today’s teens are totally stressed. Based on the self-help classic, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, this evidence-based guide will help you develop a game plan for reducing stress so you can focus on reaching your goals.
Are you feeling stressed out? You aren’t alone. Between...
by Jonathan Bates, Timothy Tompkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1999
Practical Visual C++ takes a straight forward, no-nonsense approach to teaching C++. You start by learning the basics of Developer Studio with the use of the Wizards, editors, and debuggers. Then move on to the core language, including program flow, data types, functions, classes, object-oriented programming,...
Whale Done Parenting
How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Offers five simple and effective principles for coping with any parenting challenge • Based on actual killer whale training techniques • Story format makes this an unusual and entertaining approach for a parenting book “How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can’t...
Racial Indigestion
Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links...
by Jim Tompkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
In 1829, Dr. John McLoughlin, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company Columbia Department, had two small cabins constructed on an island in Willamette Falls. The Kalapuya Indians promptly burned them, but a claim had been made and the roots planted for the oldest city in the Oregon Territory. Incorporated...
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Drawing from recent theories on youth subcultures, this collection of essays considers official attempts to accommodate and contain jazz, rock-and-roll,...
by Tompkins Mclaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: This is a...
by A. Tompkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The uniflow steam engine was invented in England by T. J. Todd in 1885 and this is its story. A compact guide to the design, construction and maintenance of this powerhouse of the empire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...
Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968
Reflections on the Lost Photos of the Third Ascent
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the climb, places it in the social and climbing context...
Play Cello Today
A Complete Guide to the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
(Play Today Instructional Series). The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and audio with 111 demonstration tracks! This cello method can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow...
OCD
A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
When someone is diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chances are they've been living with the symptoms for a long time. People with OCD may have long felt embarrassed by their thoughts and behaviors, which may include fear of contamination, the need for symmetry, pathological doubt,...
Art Crime and its Prevention
A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds – from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary gallerist, dealer, art-market student or collector. Written by a range of international experts, the book's...
Post-Colonial Drama
Theory, Practice, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa,...
A Not so Dolce Vita
Reflections in a Red Convertible
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A wartime story of two British children in America and beyond.