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An in-depth investigation of the science and business of America's pet obesity epidemic.

Reducere. This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten ...

Provides classicists and linguists in general with a complete account of the 'historical present' in Classical Greek. With its combination of philo...

Robbie Munro is back home, living with his dad and his new-found daughter. Life as a criminal lawyer is not going well, and neither is his love lif...

Reducere. A reprint of Salaman's classic reference, out of print for ten years, describing and illustrating in b&w virtually every tool used in the leatherwo...

An "entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued" (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in A...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Yan ThomasTranslator: Chantal SchützNumber of pages: 360Collection: Encounters in Law & Philosophy...

Reducere. Lau Tzu said, "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are liv...

DescriptionHaving spent ten years as Jayne Mansfield's press secretary, Raymond Strait knows intimately both the public image and the private perso...

Reducere. For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on archi...

This book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast between present and past tense - are encoded in the syntax of natural l...

Reducere. Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Twelfth Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core questio...

DescriptionA quest for the perfect birthday present leads to ever grander (and ever more imperfect) gift ideas in this clever metafiction story tha...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 19Cover type...

Reducere. Meditations on the sources of formation in Christian approach to law, its application to contemporary living, and how our approach to the law shoul...

Reducere. DescriptionWill humans ever be able to live on other planets? Former NASA astronaut Dr. Dave Williams is the person to ask. It turns out that Earth...

Reducere. James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of t...

Reducere. Poetry. Women's Studies. The forming of the five senses is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the present.--Karl MarxHEARING is the...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers...

This book offers a therapeutic approach to a problem that many families and mental health institutions face: a growing number of adult children who...

The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American histor...

One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book...

Reducere. Told through the powerful stories of Black lives that were ravaged by racism, this manifesto holds 10 demands to rectify racial injustice Told thro...

Relationships take work. In this much-anticipated book, best-selling author Matthew McKay and psychologist Avigail Lev present the ten most common ...

Reducere. Nearly everyone has heard of the Ten Commandments, the list of "thou-shalt-nots" found in the Bible. Jesus saw these commandments not as onerous bu...

DescriptionWriting for Minecrafters: Grade 2 features well-loved video game characters and concepts to encourage second grade writing practice. Wit...

Heal Heartburn and Lose Weight, Naturally If you suffer from acid reflux, you're not alone. More than 50 million Americans have GERD, or gastroesop...

Contributor(s): Author: David KinsleyIn this book, you can see how the divine has been perceived in feminine form. Here are ten of the best known g...

Reducere. Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo...

Reducere. Michael Krohnen's memoir of conversations and life with Jiddu Krishnamurti. From the author's foreword to the 2nd edition: J. Krishnamurti's long a...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African Ameri...

Reducere. Kent Hollingsworth captures the flavor and atmosphere of the Sport of Kings in the dramatic account of the development of the Thoroughbred in Kentu...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died ...

DescriptionLearn to Write about Your Minecrafting Adventures Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 1 features well-loved video game characters and concep...

DescriptionRod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dart...

Reducere. For almost ten thousand years, unbaked earth has been used to build remarkable structures, from simple dwellings to palaces, temples, and fortresse...

Reducere. Children love Minecraft. And with Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 3, learning feels more like game time. They will learn from the characters and co...

Reducere. At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the surviva...

The Lyons Press is proud to present The L.L. Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing, an exciting full-color book for beginning and expert fly anglers al...

Award NameJames Beard Foundation Book AwardsAward categoryAmericanDescriptionFrom the acclaimed team behind Manhattan's three-Michelin-starred Elev...

Reducere. Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hi...

A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion dollar indus...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan SmeleThis volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggl...

Reducere. A beautifully produced exploration of America's plains states--their histories, traditions and people--from Peter KayafasThe latest book from New Y...

Reducere. You are wonderfully made -- Psalm 139: 14 God designed your body to heal itself. Your body has a maximum health potential. Most don't achieve it be...

Reducere. After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popula...

Reducere. In places like the valley town of Alma, once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and through the dusty streets of San Antonio, where Conrad ...

Reducere. Incorporating memoir, folktales, fact, and hearsay into two distinctly moving poems, this collection attests to history's manifestation in the pres...

Reducere. "A compact, merciless tragedy... I read this novel with something resembling a rapturous grief." --Kate ZambrenoFor ten years Dora has ritualistica...

Reducere. When Ronald Sukenick's first novel, UP, came out in 1968, post-modernism, avant-pop and autofiction hadn't been invented yet. UP invented them. Ron...

Reducere. Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black C...

Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for English-speaking readers, this anthology offers popular and influential stories from over ten cou...

Reducere. Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in tr...

Reducere. Humans are evolving in dimensional consciousness. As one ascends beyond the 5th dimension, spiritual gifts activate. Humans are healed on all level...

Reducere. Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfils the tas...

Reducere. Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. The present volume is his best known work, first p...

In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from i...

Reducere. It's uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, "I have been writing this book all my life, " but there is little doubt...

Reducere. African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portra...

Reducere. The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's restaurant shares the past, present, and future of Chinese cooking in America through 9...

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

Reducere. This book provides ten case studies with concise real-world examples illustrating how MAXQDA is used in practice. In each research example, the aut...

Reducere. When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that...

Reducere. While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora act...

Reducere. WolfheartThe much-anticipated second book in The Shady Gully Series picks up five years after Paint Me Fearless, Hallie Lee's Best-Selling debut no...

DescriptionA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wal...

When Lila and her family visit Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, her parents and brother scoff at the claim that the house is haunted. But secre...

Reducere. A Unique 8-Step System to Reverse Your PCOS Author and naturopathic doctor Fiona McCulloch dives deep into the science underlying the mysteries of ...

Reducere. When ten-year-old Genevieve Donovan's Nannie dies mysteriously in the Lowcountry river she's loved and lived near all her life, Genny and her famil...