How to Study Public Life

Contributor(s): Author: Jan GehlAuthor: Birgitte SvarreHow do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, an...

DescriptionA prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices...

In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an ...

Reducere. Israel Regardie wrote The Tree of Life, a book many consider his magnum opus, in 1932. It has continued to sell for decades. And no wonder. Up unti...

Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustainin...

How far should religious practices be curtailed in pursuit of other social goals, such as equality and the removal of discrimination? This book rea...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Reducere. Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality presents an unconventional take on how we live with death-or try to at least. It is spurred, in part...

Reducere. How does evidence happen? And when evidence happens badly, how can we find a fitting response to those making extraordinary claims? These are the q...

Reducere. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries. Elizab...

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

Reducere. Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots...

DescriptionIf you are embarking on a university nursing or midwifery degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowled...

DescriptionThe first major retrospective of the Brazilian modernist architect's life and work One of the most important architects of the twentieth...

Reducere. In this updated reissue of his 1984 classic, James Fowler applies his groundbreaking research on the development of faith to Christianity. In his r...

When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in healthcare that wou...

Reducere. This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage an...

Reducere. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Rosalind Franklin...

Reducere. The way we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value. Consider the pro-life strategy of calling a fetus a child, thereby ef...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Horacio SanchezArchitecture for Kids is a book dedicated to children interested in architecture or design. It provides a vi...

Reducere. Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultura...

Claiming Belonging dives deep into the lives of Muslim American advocacy groups in the post-9/11 era, asking how they form and function within thei...

Reducere. Would you like to learn Spanish? Do you Want to acquire more Spanish speaking skills? Would you like to have a course that gives you the basis to b...

Reducere. S ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skep...

The USA Today Bestseller'The infectious disease expert who predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail'Osterholm has produced a sharp, persua...

Reducere. Excited and full of the confidence of youth, totally blind Ruth arrived in London, England, to study Physiotherapy. She spoke the same language, wa...

Can traditional arts improve an older adult's quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder's cultural ident...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was a debate that Dr. Barbara Castro knew she would eventually face as a biology teacher: Creationism vs. Evolution. Evolution in pub...

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to cr...

Reducere. First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to ...

Written by and for teens and young adults with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), as well as for their parents, teachers, therapists, and other...

Reducere. A leading childhood nutrition researcher and an experienced public health educator explain the hidden danger sugar poses to a child's development a...