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A Short History Of Newnham College, Cambridge (1921)

A Short History Of Newnham College, Cambridge (1921)

by Alice Gardner

From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse: Alternative Methods for a Progressive, Humane EducationNick Jukes

From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse: Alternative Methods for a Progressive, Humane Education

by Nick Jukes

Orange Crows

by Perry, II James

After five years of criminal exile, young witch Cierra is brought back to civilization. Under the care of the Special Witch and Warlock Squadron, Cierra must learn to deal with a changed world while hiding the dangerous changes within herself and her magic. Perry has crafted an intriguing, if imperfect, world. Part dark fantasy and part science fiction, his tale is full of action and unique details. Chapter breaks... (more)

Ultimate Visual Dictionary 2000 (Ultimate Visual Dictionary)

Ultimate Visual Dictionary 2000 (Ultimate Visual Dictionary)

by DK Publishing

Updated and expanded, this easy-to-use reference covers everything from prehistoric Earth and science, to sports, art, and music. Also includes more than 6,000 full-color photographs and illustrations, and visual definitions of more than 33,000 terms.

What We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health

What We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health

by Moshe Zeidner

Emotional intelligence (or EI)—the ability to perceive, regulate, and communicate emotions, to understand emotions in ourselves and others—has been the subject of best-selling books, magazine cover stories, and countless media mentions. It has been touted as a solution for problems ranging from relationship issues to the inadequacies of local schools. But the media hype has far outpaced the scientific research on... (more)

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes)

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes)

by Christine B. Feak, John M. Swales

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review is concerned with the writing of a literature review and is not designed to address any of the preliminary processes leading up to the actual writing of the literature review. This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on writing literature reviews that appeared in English in Today's Research World . This volume progresses from... (more)

How to Shop for a Husband: A Consumer Guide to Getting a Great Buy on a Guy

How to Shop for a Husband: A Consumer Guide to Getting a Great Buy on a Guy

by Janice Lieberman

Janice Lieberman brings her vast shopping expertise as well as her personal knowledge of the dating marketplace together to tell you how to shop for the most important “purchase” of your life—your spouse. How to Shop for a Husband uses smart shopping principles to formulate rules that will help women select a spouse and “close the deal.” This savvy shopper’s guide provides a checklist all women can use in their... (more)

Philosophy Through Video Games

by Jon Cogburn

How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork , Grand Theft Auto , and Civilization ? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that... (more)

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets

by Paul McFedries

If you’re one of the millions of users joining Twitter to connect to friends, family, and interest groups; or to follow the conversation and find out what’s happening beyond your doorstep, then this full color, 288 page book is for you. Coverage on how to establish a Twitter account, tweet from mobile devices, search for people and interests, and add Twitter to your blog is approached in a user-friendly manner.... (more)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad-Ghita : A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad-Ghita : A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6

by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

This is a translation and commentary of the central Hindu religious classic - "The Bhagavad Gita".

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1

An Introduction

by Michel Foucault

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

Atlantis and the Seven StarsJack Countryman

Atlantis and the Seven Stars

by Jack Countryman

The Great Hunger : Ireland, 1845-1849

by Cecil Woodham-Smith

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire 'solutions' - largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to... (more)

Abriss der Psychoanalyse. (English)

by James Strachey, Sigmund Freud

Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and... (more)

Prisons and punishments of London

by Richard Byrne

Science and Sanity : an Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Science and Sanity : an Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

by Alfred Korzybski

Harcourt Brace Handbook : With 1998 Mla Style Manual Updates : Spiral

Harcourt Brace Handbook : With 1998 Mla Style Manual Updates : Spiral

by John Cunyus Hodges, Robert Keith Miller

Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Revised Second Edition

Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Revised Second Edition

by Susan Presby Kodish

...applies Korzybski's brilliant general semantics philosophy to its readers' everyday lives and shows them how to live more sanely. -- Albert Ellis, Ph.D., President, Albert Ellis Institute ...concise guide...offer<s> a solid, practical approach to the formulations of Alfred Korzybski...explains general semantics in fifteen succinct chapters... -- Review of First Edition by Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D.... (more)

The Hite Report : A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (#06963)

The Hite Report : A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (#06963)

by Shere Hite

Featuring a new foreword by the author, this is the classic feminist analysis of sex that galvanized a cultural revolution. Originally published in 1976, The Hite Report revealed the most intimate sexual feelings of 3,000 women: what they like and don't like; how orgasm really feels, with and without intercourse; how it feels to not have an orgasm during sex; the importance of clitoral stimulation and... (more)

Period piece : a Cambridge childhood

by Gwen Raverat

Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of an English childhood in the late 19th century, as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded here both in pen portraits and line drawings, reveal an artist s careful eye. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her... (more)

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