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Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Denene Millner Books)
The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes boys sharper, more visible, more aware of every... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
A Song for Harlem
In this third title in the series, Gee shares with her three grandchildren the story of her aunt Lilly Belle, who kept journals and had a poem published in Crisis magazine. The aspiring author was 12 when she stayed in Harlem with her Aunt Odessa so that she could attend a writing worshop for young ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Abby Takes A Stand (Scraps of Time Series)
Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Physical Chemistry for the Biological Sciences
This book provides an introduction to physical chemistry that is directed toward applications to the biological sciences. Advanced mathematics is not required. This book can be used for either a one semester or two semester course, and as a reference volume by students and faculty in the biological ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Health For The Whole Person: The Complete Guide To Holistic Medicine
This book presents attitudes, information, and tools for a holistic approach to medicine, health, and mental health. In our discussions among ourselves and with the contributing authors we defined three aspects of a holistic approach. First, such an approach involves expanding our focus to include t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1981 -
Love Inspired July 2013 - Bundle 1 of 2
Love Inspired brings you three new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from July 1 to July 31! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This Love Inspired bundle includes Love In Bloom by Arlene James, Noah's Sweetheart by Rebecca Kert... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Unstuck
Despite the billions spent on prescription anti-depressant drugs and psychotherapy, people everywhere continue to grapple with depression. James Gordon, one of the nation's most respected psychiatrists, now offers a practical and effective way to get unstuck. Drawing on forty years of pioneering w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma
A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidence-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), the worlds largest and most effecti... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Adventures in World Literature Classic Edition
World Literature textbook for High School students ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1970 -
Spiritual Care in Common Terms: How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing. This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an open wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Collaboration and the Future of Education: Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically (Routledge Research in Education)
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher Curriculu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Algebra 2: Integration, Applications, Connections
by Gilbert Cuevas • Alan G. Foster • William Colluns • Berchie Gordon • Beatrice Moore-Harms • James Rath • Dora Swart • Lesue J. WintersAlgebra 2 is designed to illustrate how algebra is used in the real world. This goal is accomplished through integration, applications, and connections and the book also talks about how different branches of mathematics, such as geometry and statistics, are interrelated.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Dictionary of Christian Spirituality
In recent decades Christian spirituality, spiritual formation and spiritual theology have become important concepts in the global evangelical community. Consequently, an accessible and reliable academic resource is needed on these topics—one that will offer a discerning orientation to the wealth of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Genesis: Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
There is little doubt that in recent years the nature of the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This Counterpoints volume introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding. Each contributor identifies their position on the gen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Once Upon a Time in the Weird West
by Jamie Fessenden • Shira Anthony • Jana Denardo • Kim Fielding • Venona Keyes • Andrew Q. Gordon • Tali Spencer • Lex Chase • C. S. PoeThis isn't the same old Wild West. The usual suspects are all present: cowboys, outlaws, and sheriffs. There's plenty of dust, tumbleweeds, horses, and cattle on the range, but there are also magical gems, automatons, elementals, airships... even dinosaurs and genetically modified insects. Roaming a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by James M. Mcpherson • William C. Davis • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Christopher Phillips • William S. Mcfeely • Joseph T. Glatthaar • Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein • Jennifer Gross • Clarence L. Mohr • Brian Steel Wills • Nina Silber • Jennifer Lund Smith • Frank J. Byrne • Thomas G. Dyer • Keith Bohannon • Jean E. Friedman • Rod Andrew • Philip Davis Dillard • David McgeeIn The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles • Piotr Prussak • Christopher J. Regan • Bob Fox • Christopher M. Buechler • Murray Gordon • Michael Lotter • Jason Medero • Nilesh Mehta • Joris Poelmans • Christopher PragashFor any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technolog... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
by John Louis Lucaites • Purnima Bose • David Campbell • Diane Rubenstein • Wendy Kozol • Nina Berman • Rebecca A. Adelman • James Der Derian • Christopher J. Gilbert • Claudia Breger • De Witt Kilgore • Jeremy G. Gordon • Jody Madeira • Jon Simons • Roger StahlIn/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
by Catherine Clinton • William L. Andrews • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Marcus Rediker • John F. Marszalek • John David Smith • Graham Hodges • Matthew Stanley • Diane Miller Sommerville • Michael Burlingame • Joseph Beilein • Matthew C. Hulbert • Brian Rouleau • Tom Lee • Kenneth Greenberg • Jonathon Sarris • Ryan Keating • Donna Barbie • Allison Dorsey • Stephen Whitfield • Nicole Etcheson • Drew Swanson • James Crisp • Kevin Waite • Jacob LeeFilms possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Domestic Sources Of American Foreign Policy: Insights And Evidence
by Louis Fisher • Hillary Rodham Clinton • James M. Lindsay • Seymour M. Hersh • Walter Russell Mead • Joseph S. Nye • Michael Nelson • I. M. Destler • Robert Jervis • Adam J. Berinsky • Peter D. Feaver • Christopher Gelpi • James M. Goldgeier • Patrick J. Haney • Miroslav Nincic • Christopher M. Jones • Matthew Leatherman • Ryan Lizza • James M. Mccormick • Gordon Adams • John MearsheimerThe new edition of this leading reader for courses in American foreign policy offers students an up-to-date, highly accessible introduction to the broad array of domestic factors influencing U. S. policymakers. Editor James M. McCormick has carefully selected two dozen current insightful and somet... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Invasion Biology: Hypotheses and Evidence (CABI Invasives Series)
by James Griesemer • Gordon A. Fox • Julie L. Lockwood • Sabrina Amador-Vargas • Tim M. Blackburn • Raul Rennó Braga • Phillip Cassey • Simon Debille • Martin Enders • Felix Erhard • Alejandro G. Farji-Brener • Pablo García-Díaz • Lorena Gómez Aparicio • Christopher J. Lortie • Caroline Müller • Regina Nordheimer • Petr Pysek • Samuel M. Scheiner • Julian Starzer • Olena Torchyk • Jean Ricardo VituleInvasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
by David Hopkins • Antjie Krog • Harry Thomas • Margaret Williams • John Richetti • Philip Smallwood • Adam Rounce • Kate Parker • Elaine Wood • Clement Hawes • James Rice • Daniel Little • Gordon Turnbull • Adam Walker • Kevin L. Cope • Anthony W Lee • Cedric D. • Bärbel Czennia • Robert G. Walker • Aaron R. Hanlon • Martine Brownley • Dominic Jermey • Caroline Fassett • Joseph McNicholas • Erin Labbie • Patrick Thomas Henry • Kang Tchou • Gary Sojka • Nina Forsberg • John Rickard • Kieron Winn • Emily GrosholzSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Gre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023