Tony: 3662 books
by Tony Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
'I believe that every human being has an innate desire for happiness and does not want to suffer. I also believe that the very purpose of life is to experience this happiness' The Dalai Lama
Buddhism is one of the world's oldest and most widespread belief systems. Its history spans two and...
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy
Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between...
America's Mission
The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed...
American Grit
What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Tough Times Call for Tough Action . In American Grit, nationally syndicated columnist Tony Blankley warns that the administration of Barack Obama is a potential disaster at a dangerous time for America.Challenging Americans to recapture the spirit of sacrifice that has historically characterized our...
Creating Innovators (Enhanced eBook)
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators...
by Tony Christini
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
"Simultaneously, it carries on a conversation with the reader about the reasons for the young man’s death..."While there is no doubt that this book is very political, just like there is no doubt as to the author’s politics, Christini manages to make this work quite readable. The story has...
Long Road from Quito
Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Long Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely trailblazer with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an...
by Tony Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2008
Warmones, hormones, and conscience compete for the souls of young pilots in the VietNam war. An air combat tale of whimsical intelligence and vivid realism.
Its 1967 in DaNang, Vietnam, as new pilot Steve Mylder reports for duty to his fighter squadron and meets fellow pilot Avery Aughton....
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that...
by HRH The Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today.
From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist Tony Juniper and climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, it explains the history,...
Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter
Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise. In this thought-provoking and groundbreaking book, Tony Frontier and Paul Mielke address this issue head-on, combining the conceptual and the practical by offering a compelling...
Falconry Basics
A Handbook for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In this fully revised edition of his classic guide to falconry for beginners, lifelong falconer Tony Hall presents the most comprehensive information available to newcomers to the sport. Falconry Basics is specifically designed for novices and covers the basics, from different types of birds and their...
by John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell, Paul R. Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”-from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and...
The Ecological Hoofprint
The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth...