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Patrick S. Cheng

Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives including feminist theology, Black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one.,However, ,Radical Love, is the first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology.,Queer theology is concerned with questions about the meaning of existence, as posed by lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and other queer seekers. The classic problems of theology apply: the problems of both natural and human evil; the problem of God, or the ultimate source of the universe; the problem of the purpose of human life; the problem of ethical conduct; and the problem of human desire for eternal life.,Part One of this new book provides a historical survey of how queer theology has developed from the 1950's to today. Part Two is a substantive, but highly readable introduction to the themes of queer theology using the ecumenical creeds as a general framework. Topics include revelation, God, Trinity, creation, Jesus Christ, atonement, sin, grace, Holy Spirit, church, sacraments, and last things, as seen through the lenses of LGBT,theologians.

Religion,Theology,Religion,GLBT,Queer,LGBT,Nonfiction,Religion,Christianity,Christian,Sexuality,Religion,Faith,Spirituality

1596271329

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10059955-radical-love

Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology

Matthew Johnstone,Paul A. Gilbert

There are many different breeds of Black Dog affecting millions of people from all walks of life. The Black Dog is an equal opportunity mongrel. It was Winston Churchill who popularized the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life. Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this moving and uplifting insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion and how he learned to tame it and bring it to heel.

Nonfiction,Health,Mental Health,Sequential Art,Graphic Novels,Psychology,Self Help,Mental Health,Mental Illness,Childrens,Picture Books,Sequential Art,Comics,Health,Short Stories

1845295897

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1005996.I_Had_a_Black_Dog

I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression

Terry Pickard

On the 22nd of April 1995 more than 4,000 Rwandans were massacred and thousands more injured in a place called Kibeho. Terry Pickard, a seasoned soldier and medic, was one of a 32-strong force of Australian UN peacekeepers in Kibeho on that terrible Saturday. While the United Nations' presence prevented the death toll from being even worse than it was, the massacre continues to haunt him. The rules of engagement that stopped him from intervening in the senseless slaughter and the life and death decisions he was forced to make when dealing with the injured condemned him to more than a decade of recurring nightmares and debilitating flashbacks. The horror and unimaginable tragedy of the Kibeho Massacre still looms large in the lives of Rwandans and the people sent to help the African country. No one who walked away from that day was ever the same again. Combat Medic is a personal account of one Australian soldier who found himself at the centre of events that shocked the world, and the personal toll that he paid. Terry Pickard's army career spanned nearly 20 years. More than 15 years after Rwanda he continues to struggle with post traumatic stress triggered by his experiences. In 2005 those who served in Rwanda and the UN peacekeeping mission were informed that their service had been upgraded to "warlike''. Very few of them had ever doubted it.

980325129

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060055-combat-medic---an-eyewitness-account-of-the-kibeho-massacre

Combat Medic - An Eyewitness Account of the Kibeho Massacre

Richard Herne

The I Ching is more than just a fortunetelling oracle. It is also an incredibly powerful system for theoretical and practical magick and meditation. Magick, Shamanism & Taoism shows how to view the I Ching on a more expansive and experiential level, allowing magicians to use the energies of the universe as revealed in the I Ching hexagrams. This book is likely to engage pagans and occultists who are looking for an innovative approach to this material.

Occult,Religion,Taoism

1567182070

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006006.Magick_Shamanism_and_Taoism

Magick, Shamanism and Taoism: The I Ching in Ritual & Meditation

A.T. Robertson

Christianity,New Testament

801076277

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060125-epochs-in-the-life-of-the-apostle-john

Epochs In The Life Of The Apostle John (A.T. Robertson Library)

A.T. Robertson

Christianity,New Testament

801076463

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060126-luke-the-historian-in-the-light-of-research

Luke The Historian, In The Light Of Research

A.T. Robertson

Christianity,New Testament

801076455

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060127-keywords-in-the-teaching-of-jesus-a-t-robertson-library-iii

KEYWORDS IN THE TEACHING OF JESUS A T ROBERTSON LIBRARY III

Elisabetta Gnone

Siempre ocurre así. Un día de Septiembre, alguien hace una rareza más rara que las haituales y a aprtir de ese momento, durante un mes y a veces hasta dos, en Fairy Oak queda desterrada la normalidad. La llaman "Danza de las Locuras de la Estación".,Lo que sucede en esos días es hilarante y precioso, porque cada cual parece de verdad dar lo mejor de sí en fantasía, fuerza, habilidad y... excentricidad. Tampoco los árboles se quedan atrás, el valle entero parece embrujado.,Y Flox tiene una teoría al respecto: que basta con mirar a los ojos de quienes danzan para comprender que... Pero dejemos que lo diga la propia Flox, pues este misterio lo revela ella, la chica arco iris, la amiga del alma de Vi y Babú. Esta historia está dedicada a ella y a la amistad, esa que, mires donde mires, te la encuentras y que a veces te deja cardenales. Y no sólo en la piel...

Fantasy,Childrens,Childrens,Middle Grade,Young Adult,European Literature,Italian Literature,Fantasy,Magic

8408091530

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060190-flox-de-los-colores-fairy-oak

Flox de los Colores. Fairy Oak

G. John Ikenberry

In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last decade, the American-led order has been troubled. Some argue that the Bush administration, with its war on terror, invasion of Iraq, and unilateral orientation, undermined this liberal order. Others argue that we are witnessing the end of the American era. ,Liberal Leviathan, engages these debates., G. John Ikenberry argues that the crisis that besets the American-led order is a crisis of authority. A political struggle has been ignited over the distribution of roles, rights, and authority within the liberal international order. But the deeper logic of liberal order remains alive and well. The forces that have triggered this crisis--the rise of non-Western states such as China, contested norms of sovereignty, and the deepening of economic and security interdependence--have resulted from the successful functioning and expansion of the postwar liberal order, not its breakdown. The liberal international order has encountered crises in the past and evolved as a result. It will do so again., Ikenberry provides the most systematic statement yet about the theory and practice of the liberal international order, and a forceful message for policymakers, scholars, and general readers about why America must renegotiate its relationship with the rest of the world and pursue a more enlightened strategy--that of the liberal leviathan.

Politics,History,Political Science,International Relations,Politics,Political Science,Nonfiction,Academic,School

691125589

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060194-liberal-leviathan

Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order

Miranda Dickinson

From the author that gave you the Sunday Times top 10 selling title, Fairytale of New York, join our heroine Romilly as she discovers how far she will go to find the man of her dreams. What would you do to find the one that got away? As the singer in a wedding band, Romily Parker has seen her fair share of happy endings, even though her own love life isn't quite as simple. On the last Saturday before Christmas, (shortly after disastrously declaring her love for best friend Charlie), Romily has a brief encounter with a handsome stranger whose heart-stopping kiss changes everything. Determined to find him again, Romily embarks on a yearlong quest, helped (and sometimes hindered) by enthusiastic Uncle Dudley, cake-making Auntie Mags and flamboyant Wren. Will she find the man of her dreams? Or could true love be closer than she thinks? The ONLY book that you'll want to curl up with this winter -- perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Sophie Kinsella.

Womens Fiction,Chick Lit,Romance,Holiday,Christmas,Contemporary,Holiday,Fiction,Romance,Contemporary Romance,New York,Love,Womens Fiction

1847561675

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060196-it-started-with-a-kiss

It Started With A Kiss

Deric Longden

Deric Longden shares his life with a blind novelist, Aileen Armitage, and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink, and Arthur. Aileen rarely trips over the cats, but they are always in danger of being mistaken for a cardigan.

Animals,Nonfiction,Animals,Cats,Humor,Biography,Autobiography,Biography,Autobiography,Memoir

552143014

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006025.Enough_To_Make_A_Cat_Laugh

Enough To Make A Cat Laugh

Susie White

This practical yet inspiring series of books will tell you all you need to know about your favorite plants. The Grower's Guide contains the secrets of growing, cultivating, buying, propagating, pruning, and controlling pests or diseases--all in an easy-to-use, step-by-step format.

1842155482

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060310-herbs

Herbs

Herman Brusselmans

Fiction

9035104986

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006047.Zijn_er_kanalen_in_Aalst_

Zijn er kanalen in Aalst?

Herman Brusselmans

Speelse columns over het Vlaamse literaire leven.

9035108205

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006049.De_geschiedenis_van_de_wereldliteratuur

De geschiedenis van de wereldliteratuur

Herman Brusselmans

Als de machtige zakenman Guggenheimer bij toeval ontdekt dat het medium literatuur het volgens bepaalde prognoses in de 21ste eeuw volop gaat maken, schiet hij op de hem eigen wijze uit de startblokken en besluit hij om uitgever te worden _ en meteen ook de allerbeste uitgever die ooit is opgestaan in het Vlaamse letterenland. Hij begint als hoofd van Uitgeverij Guggenheimer concurrerende bedrijven te dwarsbomen en ook een aantal literaire boegbeelden blijft niet ongeschonden. Daarnaast zorgt hij er natuurlijk voor dat hij een uniek fonds op poten krijgt.

Fiction,Humor,Literature,European Literature,Dutch Literature

905333842X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006055.Uitgeverij_Guggenheimer

Uitgeverij Guggenheimer

Herman Brusselmans

Literature

9035108426

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006056.Vlucht_voor_mij

Vlucht voor mij

Herman Brusselmans

Een succesvolle drummer beleeft in Gent diverse erotische avonturen.

Literature,Fiction,Cultural,Belgium

9053333592

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006057.Vrouwen_met_een_IQ

Vrouwen met een IQ

Herman Brusselmans

'Ex drummer' is het slotdeel van de 'Ex-trilogie', die verder bestaat uit 'Ex schrijver' en 'Ex minnaar' en behoort tot het allerbeste van Herman Brusselmans' omvangrijke oeuvre. In deze hilarische studie van verloedering worden drie onverbeterlijke losers ten tonele gevoerd, die een populaire schrijver engageren als drummer voor hun rockgroepje. De baldadige avonturen van The Feminists, 'de slechtste band die Gent ooit gekend heeft', worden door Brusselman met de gebruikelijke overdrijving en absurditeit neergezet, maar tussen alle mafkezerij door is er opvallend veel plaats voor gevoeligheid en melancholie. En zo wordt er exuberant gesnoven en gescholden, gevochten en gemoord, geneuzeld en geneukt - tot de even onvermijdelijke als verstrekkende conclusie: 'Alles blijft continu onbegrijpelijk, vunzig, in wezen onmenselijk.'

Fiction,European Literature,Dutch Literature,Literature,Humor,Novels,European Literature,Belgian,Anthologies,Collections,Culture,Film,Literature,20th Century

9053332561

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006061.Ex_drummer

Ex-drummer

Herman Brusselmans

Fiction,Literature

9035106644

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006062.Dagboek_van_een_vermoeide_ego_st

Dagboek van een vermoeide egoïst

Herman Brusselmans

We maken kennis met Herman Brusselmans' leven in de periode van augustus 1996 tot en met februari 1997, een van de woeligste perioden in de Belgische geschiedenis. Waarom blijft men zoeken naar wat onvindbaar is? Wat is het logische verschil tussen goede en foute idioten? Logica voor idioten is vooral een liefdesroman. Hoe zit het als men de nagenoeg perfecte relatie heeft met een schitterende vrouw en toch altijd verlangt naar een 'bijmeisjes'? De gedetailleerde zoektocht naar het uiteindelijke antwoord maakt Herman Brusselmans zo zot als een achterdeur - een gekte waar zijn lezer alleen maar profijt van heeft.

Literature,Fiction

9053335730

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006064.Logica_voor_idioten

Logica voor idioten

Herman Brusselmans

Een boekhandelaar maakt door voortdurend te mopperen op het leven en het beledigen van zijn klanten geen succes van zijn nering. Vervolg op "De man die werk vond".

Fiction,Literature,Cultural,Belgium,European Literature,Dutch Literature

9053337075

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006065.Nog_drie_keer_slapen_en_ik_word_wakker

Nog drie keer slapen en ik word wakker

Ivy G. Wilson

Specters of Democracy ,examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book reveals how the difficult tasks of representing African Americans-both enslaved and free-in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy itself.

195340353

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060699-specters-of-democracy

Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.

Tom Lanoye

In ,Kartonnen dozen, legt Tom Lanoye enerzijds de verslavingen en de valstrikken bloot van de grote, allesverterende jeugdliefde die iedereen kent uit ervaring. Anderzijds schildert hij zijn eigen afkomst en opvoeding: de slagerswinkel van zijn vader, de vier vrouwen die hem hebben opgevoed, de katholieke school die probeert overeind te blijven in de stormen van de moderniteit, de bejaarde priesterdichter die een inspirerend leraar Nederlands blijkt te zijn, de turners waaraan de jonge auteur zich vergaapt, en de stripverhalen waaraan hij zijn ogen kapot leest.

Fiction,Roman,LGBT,Literature,European Literature,Dutch Literature,Academic,Read For School,European Literature,Belgian,Literature,20th Century,Cultural,Belgium,Novels

9053330224

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006075.Kartonnen_dozen

Kartonnen dozen

Tom Lanoye

In de verdere lotgevallen van een Belgische vrouw tekent zich steeds meer de 'Belgische ziekte', de institutionele corruptie, af. Vervolg op ,Het goddelijke monster,.

Fiction,Literature,European Literature,Dutch Literature,Anthologies,Collections,Contemporary,Roman

9053336834

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006076.Zwarte_tranen

Zwarte tranen

John Russell Taylor

Hitler's rise to power caused a stream of emigrates--Germans, Austrians, Czechs, French, Scandinavians, and British--to find themselves temporarily or permanently marooned in Southern California. Hollywood beckoned to Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Jean Renoir. Los Angleses offered a home to writers such as Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery and to composers like Schoenberg and Stravinsky. This book chronicles their struggles to deal with their new environment, Americans, and one another.

Culture,Film

30619440

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100607.Strangers_in_Paradise

Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres, 1933-1950

Ada Clapham Govan

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060876-wings-at-my-window

Wings at My Window

Tony Hillerman,Robert Reynolds,David Muench

Renowned author Tony Hillerman's original essays written for "New Mexico" and "Rio Grande, " plus two new essays, are complemented by the extraordinary images of Muench and Reynolds.

1558680934

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006090.New_Mexico_Rio_Grande_and_Other_Essays

New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays

Stephen Brook

Unconstrained by tradition or viticultural regulation, California winemakers enjoy a freedom that has resulted in a remarkable range of world-class wines. Beautifully illustrated with original photographs and detailed color maps, this guide introduces California wine by exploring the best that the state has to offer —from lush Sonoma Chardonnay to spicy Santa Barbara Syrah to heady Amador Zinfandel. At the heart of the book, award-winning wine writer Stephen Brook offers 90 intimate profiles of top producers—from Napa and Sonoma to the North and Central coasts, the Sierra foothills, and beyond. Brook also includes general information on California wine history, wine culture, grape varieties, and more. Throughout, he searches for the characteristics that make California wine distinctive despite its tremendous diversity—and finds the answer in the state’s unusual climate, especially the shifting interplay between fog and sun, as well as a lively and constant questioning of received ideas about viticulture, vine age, terroir, and winemaking techniques, all of which have helped winemakers to create complexity,individuality, and nuance in their wines.

Alcohol,Wine

520266587

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10060915-the-finest-wines-of-california

The Finest Wines of California: A Regional Guide to the Best Producers and Their Wines

Francis A. Schaeffer

The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaffer Set Includes: Volume 1 is Christian View of Philosophy & Culture. It contains the following books: God who is There, Escape From Reason, He is There & He Is Not Silent, Back to Freedom & Dignity.,Vol 2 is Christian View Of The Bible As Truth. It contains the following: Genesis In Space & Time, No Final Conflict, Joshua & The Flow Of Biblical History, Basic Bible Studies, Art & The Bible.,Vol 3 is Christian View of Spirituality. It contains the following: No Little People, True Spirituality, New Super Spirituality, Two Contents Two Realities.,Vol 4 is Christian View of Church. It contains the following: Church At The End of The 20th Century, Church Before The Watching World, Mark Of The Christian, Death In The City, Great Evangelical Disaster.,Vol 5 is Christian View Of The West. It contains the following: Pollution & Death Of man, How Should We Then Live, Whatever Happened to the Human Race, Christian Manifesto.

Religion,Theology,Philosophy,Christian,Religion,Christianity,Cultural,Nonfiction,Religion,Spirituality,Reference,Christian,Christian Living

891073310

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006110.The_Complete_Works_of_Francis_A_Schaeffer

The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview

Jacqueline Simpson,Magnus Magnusson

This book of 85 stories from medieval Iceland illustrates a variety of supernatural beliefs concerning elves, gigantic trolls, water monsters, ghosts, wizards and black magic rites, buried treasure and religious tales. The stories are intimately linked to the landscape and reflect the hopes, fears, hardships and preoccupations of everyday life. The translation of each tale is accompanied by an explanatory introduction and notes.

Folklore,Fantasy,Mythology,History,Folk Tales,Fantasy,Fairy Tales,Nonfiction

752430459

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006114.Icelandic_Folktales_and_Legends

Icelandic Folktales and Legends

Edward T. Welch

Lost ambition. Emotional numbness. Fear and withdrawal. Fatigue. Marks of what is commonly called depression. If you are one of the many people suffering from depression, there is hope and there is help-a way up when you are down. Even if you don't feel like doing anything, this booklet provides manageable steps for getting started on the path that leads out of depression. Edward T. Welch helps us understand the spiritual issues involved, whether one's depression is caused by physical problems or results in them. Getting to the heart of what depression says and means, Welch guides us through a process of dealing with depression biblically and effectively.

Psychology,Counselling,Psychology,Nonfiction,Christian

875526829

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006115.Depression

Depression: The Way Up When You Are Down

Karen Whooley

Creating fabric with open-work triangles is the technique at the center of this crochet pattern assortment. Delta crochet is a simple stitch that creates a mesh, and can employ an assortment of stitches, such as double, triple, and double-triple crochet stitches. Using either light- or medium-weight, worsted yarns, the projects include a hat, a scarf, a shawl, a Mobius cowl, and a poncho.

Crafts,Crochet

159635366X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061183-learn-to-delta-lace-crochet

Learn to Delta Lace Crochet

Brian Froud,Terry Jones

Earthy, enigmatic, and--until now--elusive, the goblin is little known and even less well understood. Thanks to Brian Froud's discovery of the notebooks of Dashe, a goblin portraitist, this rare breed is now an open book. This is a definitive, profusely illustrated field guide to the goblin world, annotated by Terry Jones, Monty Python professor emeritus of Obscure, Absurd and Truly Hilarious Arts. Full-color illustrations.

Fantasy,Art,Fiction,Humor,Science Fiction Fantasy,Humor,Comedy,Paranormal,Fairies,Sequential Art,Graphic Novels,Childrens,Picture Books,Folklore

186205648X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100611.The_Goblin_Companion

The Goblin Companion

Roy M. Wallack,Ken Bob Saxton

"Barefoot Ken Bob is The Master. Long before anyone else was even talking about barefoot running, he was perfecting the art... Now, after twenty years of teaching, experimenting, and 'merry marathoning' (as he calls it), the first and best source of barefoot-running knowledge is bringing his ideas to print. And it's about time.",—Christopher McDougall, author of ,Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen,"Ken Bob Saxton, a pioneer of the modern barefoot running movement, has logged more miles in his birthday shoes than just about anyone I know, and he has helped countless people run barefoot. As one would expect, this delightful book, full of wit and wisdom, is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to run barefoot, avoid injury, and have fun.",—Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,"This is a wonderful guide from the Godfather of barefoot running!",—Irene Davis, Ph.D., director of Spaulding National Running Center, Harvard Medical School,Learn Barefoot Running from the Master!,Almost overnight, barefoot running has exploded onto the fitness scene. However, it involves more than simply taking off your shoes. In fact, everything you've learned about barefoot running is probably wrong—unless you've learned it from Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton. The leading instructor and proponent of unshod running, he has completed 76 marathons barefoot, survived an astounding marathon-a-month challenge in 2004, and gone on to top that with 16 marathons in 2006, including four in a 15-day period—all barefoot.,Barefoot Running Step by Step, separates the facts from the hype, outlines Ken Bob’s personal techniques, and details the latest research on the newest trend in mankind's oldest sport. Whether you barefoot run occasionally, part-time, or full-time, you'll find methods for improving your form, staying injury-free, dramatically improving your speed and performance, and having more fun.,The Bent Knee:, Here is the hidden secret to perfect running form. Learn how this crucial adjustment will keep you running stronger and injury-free for life.,Vibrams and Minimalist Shoes:, Barefoot running is not a transition from shoes to minimalist shoes to bare feet. It's the other way around. Discover why you need to run barefoot before you use other footwear.,Start From the Head:, Proper barefoot form doesn't start at the feet. Discover how to get the correct body biomechanics.,Ease Into It:, Here are the steps you need to take to make the transition from running in shoes to barefoot running as painless and easy as possible.,Improve Speed:, Barefoot running's injury reduction benefits are well-touted; however a new landmark study proves that barefooting—even part-time—can make you faster.,Barefoot Running Step by Step, is filled with series photos and illustrations that show you the "do's" and "don'ts" of barefoot running, the latest research, and Ken Bob Saxton's personal experiences and insights for running barefoot for life.

Nonfiction,Sports,Fitness,Sports,Sports,Health,How To

1592334652

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061242-barefoot-running-step-by-step

Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, the Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique

Luke Williams

An evocative and exquisitely written debut novel about family, empire and money. , , Impressive in its scope and ambition, this first novel is at once a family saga, a book that reimagines the myth of the empire, and a history of objects. ,The Echo Chamber, is narrated by fifty-four- year-old Evie Steppman, who grew up in Nigeria in the 1950s during the last decade of British rule. As a child, Evie exhibited extraordinarily acute powers of hearing; now, alone in an attic in Scotland that is filled with objects from her past and with her powers of hearing starting to fade, she sets out to record her history before it all disintegrates into a meaningless din. Tales of the twelfth-century mapmaker in Palermo, stories whispered by embittered expatriates, and eyewitness accounts from Nigeria's civil war mingle with Evie's memories of her childhood, of her grandfather, a watchmaker who attempted to forge a mechanical likeness of his dead wife, and of her travels across America. Williams's interest in history and storytelling and his talent for evoking multiple voices will remind readers of the work of David Mitchell, Peter Carey, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Fiction,Western Africa,Nigeria,Historical,Historical Fiction,European Literature,British Literature,Literary Fiction,Cultural,Scotland

670022837

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061270-the-echo-chamber

The Echo Chamber

Robert Desjarlais

“Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug,” writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new “anthropology of passion.” Immersing us directly in chess’s intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. ,Counterplay, offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.

Games,Chess,Anthropology

520267397

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061350-counterplay

Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

Tony Boutelle,Stan Gibilisco

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Making sense of LOGIC just got a whole lot EASIER!Stumped trying to understand logic? It's time to listen to reason! There's no doubt that ,Logic Demystified, will help you master this challenging subject.,Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins by covering arguments, validity, and truth tables. You'll move on to propositional and predicate logic, rigor, fallacies, paradoxes, and revelations. Proofs, Boolean algebra, the logic of machines, and sets are discussed as is the illogic of time, matter, space, and chaos. Detailed examples and concise explanations make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam help reinforce learning.,It's a no-brainer! You'll get: ,Rules for reasoning,Quantified statements and theorems,Simple and classical paradoxes,Strategies for proofs,Basic set theory and machine logic,A time-saving approach to performing better on homework, an exam, or at work,Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, ,Logic Demystified, helps you validate your knowledge of this multidisciplinary topic.

Philosophy,Philosophy,Logic

71701281

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061695-logic-demystified

Logic Demystified

L. Gordon Plummer

835600300

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006171.The_Mathematics_of_the_Cosmic_Mind

The Mathematics of the Cosmic Mind: A Study in Mathematical Symbolism

Paul Rivlin

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context. It shows how the ideology of the dominant group in the Zionist movement led to the development of agriculture, thus meeting the preconditions for successful industrialization. Remarkable, if uneven, growth has taken place, with increasing allocations for defense. Regional isolation led to the emphasis on high-quality exports for developed markets that has stimulated the technological base. Israel has benefited from mass immigration and increased access to foreign capital, factors that have transformed the economy. The book includes chapters on the development of the Jewish community in Palestine during the British Mandate; macroeconomic developments and economic policy; globalization and high technology; defense; the economics of the Arab minority; Israeli settlements and relations with the Palestinians; and the role of religion. It concludes with an examination of the socioeconomic divisions that have widened as the economy has grown.

Cultural,Israel

521150205

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10061809-the-israeli-economy-from-the-foundation-of-the-state-through-the-21st-ce

The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State Through the 21st Century

Philip S. Harrington

This comprehensive work takes you on a personal tour of the universe using nothing more than a pair of binoculars. More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each planet in the solar system, asteroids, meteors, comets and the sun. Following this, the reader is whisked away into deep space to explore celestial bodies including stars that are known and many sights less familiar. The final chapter includes a detailed atlas of deep-sky objects visible through binoculars. The appendices include guidance on how to buy, care for and maintain astronomical binoculars, tips and hints on using them, and detailed information on several home-made binocular mounts.

Science,Science,Astronomy,Nonfiction

471513377

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006191.Touring_the_Universe_through_Binoculars

Touring the Universe through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook

Pat Lowery Collins

The hilarious story of a squirrel determined to make turtle's wish to fly come true. Charming, full-color illustrations by Lynn Munsinger show turtle's horror at being flown on squirrel's kite--a perfect complement to Pat Collin's laughable text.

395515246

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006202.Tomorrow_Up_and_Away_

Tomorrow, Up and Away!

Danny Vendramini

Put aside everything you thought you knew about Neanderthals. Evolutionary detective Danny Vendramini's meticulous research shows they were not docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores: the 'apex predators' of the stone age. And everything else - including humans - was their prey.,Vendramini's Neanderthal predation theory argues that the evolution of modern humans - including our unique physiology, sexuality and human nature - is the result of systematic long-term sexual predation and cannibalism by Eurasian Neanderthals.,Neanderthal predation theory is one of those groundbreaking concepts that revolutionizes scientific thinking. It represents a quantum leap in our understanding of human origins.

Nonfiction

9780908244

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10062419-them-us

Them+Us

Laurent Martres

The Photographing the Southwest guidebook series is the culmination of over twenty years experience exploring and photographing the natural landmarks of the Southwest. Volume 1 will take you to the heart of Southern Utah, home to some of the Colorado Plateau's most outstanding highlights. Beyond the National Parks of the famed ?Grand Circle?, you?ll discover many hidden locations of Red Rock Country as well as Indian rock art and cliff dwellings. The book also makes a quick side trip into Northeastern Utah to explore the remote area around Dinosaur National Monument. Enough for weeks of new discoveries in the area

Art,Photography,Nonfiction,Reference

916189120

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006243.Photographing_the_Southwest

Photographing the Southwest: Volume 1--A Guide to the Natural Landmarks of Southern Utah

Rosalyn Schanzer

Catch the fever! Gold fever swept the nation—and the world—in 1848 when carpenter James Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River near John Sutter's mill. As word spread of gold in California, the news set off a westward stampede. Fortune seekers and adventurers poured into California by land and sea, wild with excitement and expectation. ,Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging and humorous book tells the story of these prospectors in their own words. Schanzer has gathered her favorite quotes from journals and letters written by the forty-niners to recount the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. Her irresistible narrative also uses newspaper accounts to trace the various routes the forty-niners took from the East Coast to the West, the adventures they experienced along the way, and the challenges they faced on arrival. The characters recount their stories in their own words, in well-researched and authenticated quote bubbles. ,Step into an intensely exciting chapter of American history. Learn about the dreamers who dropped everything to head out west. See who found gold and how. Meet the lucky ones—and the many whose dreams turned to dust. Listen to the intriguing tales of the prospectors, and find out what the gold-diggers did with their newfound wealth. ,To write and research ,Gold Fever!,, Rosalyn Schanzer visited many California Gold Rush historical sites, and took more than 600 photographs of everything from gold nuggets to saloons in order to make her art as accurate and flavorful as possible. With skill and humor she brings historical characters vividly to life and puts the spirit of the age into her vibrant art. History shines brightly on every page of this evocative book.

History,Science,Geography,Nonfiction,Childrens,Picture Books,Historical,Childrens

1426300409

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006264.Gold_Fever_

Gold Fever!: Tales from the California Gold Rush

Llewellyn Publications,Elizabeth Barrette,Calantirniel

Breathe new life into your magical practice with the bounty of practical spells, rituals, and divinations inside Llewellyn's Magical Almanac. For more than twenty years, this trusted guide has inspired and enlightened magical practitioners of all skill levels.,Get organized with the handy calendar section-shaded for easier "flip-to" reference. It features world festivals and holidays, 2012 sabbats for both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and Full Moons. You'll find the Moon's sign and phase, plus each day's color and incense correspondences. Thirty-six original articles offer creative ideas for using elemental energy to maximize the power of your spellwork in 2012.,—Make your home a magical haven using sacred geometry—Stir things up (in a good way) with a magical air altar—Dispel negativity with a cord-cutting ritual—Manifest, inspire, and heal with bathtub spells,Published annually for over twenty years, 

Religion,Paganism,Religion,Wicca,Nonfiction,Witchcraft,Spirituality,Reference,Occult,Magick

738712078

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10062650-llewellyn-s-2012-magical-almanac

Llewellyn's 2012 Magical Almanac

Lee Bursten

The Universal Tarot of Marseille--named after the royal French city where it was first produced-takes us to the fascinating origins of tarot. This reproduction's enhanced clarity and color breathe new life into the historical images, which date back to 1751.

Occult,Tarot

738710415

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10062656-universal-tarot-of-marseille-with-book-and-deck-of-cards

Universal Tarot of Marseille [With Book and Deck of Cards]

John Fielder,Mark Pearson,Mark L. Pearson

Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, Congress has designated 41 wilderness areas in Colorado, totaling some 3.4 million acres ranging from desert to sagebrush to alpine crags. In addition, other undeveloped areas and national parklands have been proposed for wilderness status. In its newly revised second edition, The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas continues to serve as the foremost guide to these magnificent wild places.

Travel

1565790529

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006272.The_Complete_Guide_to_Colorado_s_Wilderness_Areas

The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas

Hamid Ismailov,Robert Chandler

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this compelling novel introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colorful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars, and Gypsies. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station—a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town. Rich and picaresque, ,The Railway, is highly sophisticated yet contains a naive delight in its storytelling, chronicling the dramatic changes felt throughout Central Asia in the early 20th century.

Fiction,Cultural,Asia,Historical,Historical Fiction,Historical,Earth,The World,Cultural,Literature,21st Century,Novels,Travel,Literature

99466139

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006277.The_Railway

The Railway

Ricardo Araújo Pereira

Depois de ter saído d’A Bola, RAP publica em livro as suas melhores crónicas de futebol. Não perca o humor implacável de RAP e as acesas polémicas com outros cronistas.

Humor,Humor,Comedy

9896710627

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10062914-a-chama-imensa

A Chama Imensa

Sharon Phillips Denslow,Nancy Tafuri

In the snow,is a big pile of,delicious seed.,Look!,Who is coming to eat it?,Can you spot them all?,When the pile of seed,gets smaller and smaller,and day turns to dusk,and it gets,colder and colder,,who will bring new seed for the hungry animals?,Look closely!,Who is coming now,in the snow?

Childrens,Picture Books,Animals,Childrens,Storytime,Childrens,Animals,Birds,Environment,Nature,Fiction,Food and Drink,Food

006059683X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006291.In_the_Snow

In the Snow

Masahisa Fukase

Art,Photography,Art,Nonfiction,Cultural,Japan

938491237

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006294.The_Solitude_of_Ravens

The Solitude of Ravens

Dalai Lama XIV

Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wake have left an uneasy coexistence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical inquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding reality?,After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual, and philosophic study, the Dalai Lama presents a brilliant analysis of why all avenues of inquiry—scientific as well as spiritual—must be pursued in order to arrive at a complete picture of the truth. Through an examination of Darwinism and karma, quantum mechanics and philosophical insight into the nature of reality, neurobiology and the study of consciousness, the Dalai Lama draws significant parallels between contemplative and scientific examinations of reality.,This breathtakingly personal examination is a tribute to the Dalai Lama’s teachers—both of science and spirituality. The legacy of this book is a vision of the world in which our different approaches to understanding ourselves, our universe, and one another can be brought together in the service of humanity.

Nonfiction,Science,Religion,Buddhism,Philosophy,Spirituality,Religion,Audiobook,Science,Physics,Psychology,Religion,Theology

767920813

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100629.The_Universe_in_a_Single_Atom

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Al Álvarez

"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature.

Nonfiction,Psychology,Philosophy,Health,Mental Health,History,Death,Poetry,Biography,Science,Sociology

393306577

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006306.The_Savage_God

The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Michael R. Kelsey

Book by Kelsey, Michael R.

944510221

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006312.Non_Technical_Canyon_Hiking_Guide_to_the_Colorado_Plateau

Non-Technical Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau

David B. Williams,Gloria Brown

Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated trailside refernce to plants, animals, and geology of an area that includes nine national parks and monuments

Reference,Travel,Environment,Nature,Reference,Guidebook

1560447834

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006313.Naturalist_s_Guide_to_Canyon_Country

Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country

Halka Chronic

* Expanded to include Grand Staircase/Escalante, Vermilion Cliffs, Canyons of the Ancients, Dinosaur, and Hovenweep National Monuments, * Color photo insert, * Many sights accessible by car,From the sheer-walled magnificence of Zion to the breathtaking intricacy of Bryce Canyon's sculptured turrets; from the "Grand Staircase" of the Vermilion Cliffs, and Pink Cliffs in southern Utah to the volcanic lavas of Sunset Crater: two geologists describe the star attractions of 24 national parks and monuments. New sidebars provide closer looks at specific details such as the large numbers of dinosaur footprints in and around Arches National Park and geology's profound effect on ancient Pueblo peoples and how they lived.,Geologist Halka Chronic is the author of several books on geology. Geologist Lucy Chronic has served as a park interpreter at Bandelier National Monument in Los Alamos, New Mexico. , Grand Staircase, Escalante, Vermilion Cliffs, Canyons of the Ancients, Dinosaur, Hovenweep National Monuments, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Grand Staircase of the Vermilion Cliffs, Pink Cliffs in southern Utah, volcanic lavas of Sunset Crater, geologists, dinosaur footprints in and around Arches National Park

Science,Geology,Nonfiction

898866804

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006314.Pages_of_Stone

Pages of Stone: Geology of the Grand Canyon & Plateau Country National Parks & Monuments

Pierre Dubois,Roland Sabatier,Claudine Sabatier

A folio size encyclopedia of fairy lore and legend. Illustrated in color throughout.

Fantasy,Art,Reference,Paranormal,Fairies,Fairies,Fae,Fantasy,Mythology,Fantasy,Fairy Tales,Folklore,Spirituality,Religion,Paganism

684869578

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100631.The_Great_Encyclopedia_of_Faeries

The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries

Colin Tudge

Here, between the covers of one capacious book, is an illustrated summary of all the creatures that have ever lived, a vast compendium of earth's current and former inhabitants in all their dazzling and infinite diversity., Colin Tudge argues that we are entering a new phase of biology in which, for the first time, biologists are achieving profound insight into life's true diversity and developing the tools to keep track of it. The Variety of Life heralds this new phase. The first part of the book describes why biologists now feel that there could have been as many as 4,000 billion species on Earth since life began. It then discusses the need for classification, beginning with the most basic principles--the strictly practical classification of fishmongers and foresters, who speak of "shellfish" and differentiate "hardwood" from "softwood"--and moves on to explore the intriguing deliberations of the modern "transformed cladists" and the novel contributions of molecular genetics. Part II describes the creatures themselves. It is divided into 24 sections, each describing a different group, illustrated by nearly 50 double-page spreads which present genealogical "trees" that summarize the evolutionary relationships between the creatures in each group. Some sections describe large, comprehensive groups such as the kingdoms of the Animals or the Plants. Others treat similar sub-groups in more detail, such as the Mammals, a class, or the Hominids, a family. In lively and accessible prose, all the significant groups of creatures--both alive and extinct--are described and their relationships clarified., For general readers and serious biologists alike, The Variety of Life offers an unprecedented storehouse of knowledge of life on earth.

Science,Science,Biology,Nonfiction,Biology,Evolution,Environment,Nature,Science,Natural History,History,Animals,Reference,Science Nature

198503113

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006325.The_Variety_of_Life

The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived

حسن الهضيبي

Islam,Islamism

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10063302

دعاة لا قضاة

Paul C.W. Davies,Julian Brown

Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr's dictum bears witness to the bewildering impact of quantum theory, flying in the face of classical physics and dramatically transforming scientists' outlook on our relationship with the material world. In this book Paul Davies interviews eight physicists involved in debating and testing the theory, with radically different views of its significance.

Science,Science,Physics,Philosophy,Nonfiction,Science,Popular Science,Physics,Quantum Mechanics,Writing,Essays,Science,Mathematics,Science,Chemistry

521457289

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100633.The_Ghost_in_the_Atom

The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics

Carol Lynne

Book two in the Neo's Realm Series,For over four hundred years, werewolf mates, Kern and Haig fought and loved side by side. Although they've had a few rocky moments along the way, their love for each other has never wavered. That is, until Kern is kidnapped and forced to mate with the outsider, Audric. Hurt and confused, Haig runs from Neo's Realm and, most especially, Kern. How is Haig supposed to accept another man in his marriage, especially when that man isn't a werewolf at all but a vampire?,Centuries spent as the whipping boy to the other vampires in his coven have left Audric hungry for affection. His goal isn't to come between the mated pair of werewolves, but to become part of their family. Unfortunately, his yearning for love and companionship soon threatens to damage that which he desired.,Kern hates that his unwilling actions have hurt the only person he's ever loved, but with Haig gone, he's left alone to introduce Audric to a new life on the vineyard. Kern didn't expect to like the puny vampire, but Audric begins to ease his way under Kern's skin. When Haig returns after a two month absence, Kern is afraid his newfound love for Audric might tear apart his marriage with Haig.,Three men, two species, one bed. Is it possible to put aside jealousies and establish a new kind of family or will this forced union destroy everything?

Romance,M M Romance,Paranormal,Vampires,Fantasy,Paranormal,Erotica,Menage,Menage,M M M,Fantasy,Paranormal,Shapeshifters,LGBT,Gay,M M Paranormal,M M Shapeshifters,Romance

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10063853-blood-trinity

Blood Trinity

Todd Lammle

The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification is the first-tier certification in Cisco's Network Support programme. This book/CD-ROM package has now been updated to cover the latest version of the CCNA exam.

Computer Science,Technical,Reference

470901071

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10063855-ccna-cisco-certified-network-associate-study-guide

CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide

Troy Denning

To save the life of Eversult's Ruling Lady, Ruha, a Bedine witch and Harper agent, infiltrates the palace of a Shou prince and uncovers a murderous conspiracy linked to the royal household of the east and the Cult of the Dragon in the west. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Dungeons and Dragons,Forgotten Realms,Fantasy,Fiction,Role Playing Games,Dungeons and Dragons,Anthologies,Collections,Fantasy,High Fantasy

786904828

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006394.The_Veiled_Dragon

The Veiled Dragon

Brenda Brathwaite,Ian Schreiber

Aspiring and professional game developers have a lot of questions: What should be in their portfolios? How do they make contacts? How do they negotiate salaries? How much do game designers make? What should they wear to interviews? In this fast-paced and humorous guide, the authors answer these questions and many more, including the ones you didn't know to ask. BREAKING INTO THE GAME INDUSTRY: ADVICE FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER FROM THOSE WHO HAVE DONE IT, provides aspiring game developers the know-how and confidence they need to make it in the industry. Written in a unique and engaging question and answer format, the book presents a clear, overall sense of what the game industry is and how the professionals operate in it, answering the key questions new developers should be asking as they begin their career. Providing invaluable advice and tips from experienced professionals, you'll learn how to best present yourself and your skills, showcase your work and create a compelling portfolio, and much more, giving you a leg up as you try to break into the competitive and fast-paced game industry.

1435458044

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10063959-100-questions-97-answers-300-pages

100 Questions, 97 Answers, 300 Pages: Advice for a Successful Career in the Game Industry from Those Who Have Done It

Troy Denning

BONUS: This short story also features an excerpt from ,Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest.,As the forces of darkness threaten to engulf the galaxy, one last defiant spark remains.... Though the Yuuzhan Vong were victorious in their savage conquest of the planet Duro, they failed to extract sensitive information from Leia Organa Solo, who now barely clings to life after enduring the enemies' torture. Unless she receives medical attention soon, the badly wounded Princess and former head of the New Republic will surely die. Pursued by bounty hunters, Han Solo begins a race against time, only to find his urgent pleas for help rejected by planet after planet, as the Jedi are blamed for the continuing fight against the seemingly invincible aliens. Desperate, the Solos decide on a suicide mission. They must reach Coruscant, the New Republic's strife-ridden capital where traitors, appeasers, and assassins now share the same goal as the fierce Yuuzhan Vong: kill all Jedi...

Media Tie In,Star Wars,Science Fiction,Fiction,Fantasy,Novels,Adventure,Science Fiction Fantasy,Short Stories,Action,Space

345452143

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006395.Recovery

Recovery

Lawrence M. Krauss

The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today., Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.

Science,Science,Physics,Nonfiction,Science,Astronomy,Science,Popular Science,History,Biology,Evolution,Philosophy,Science,Chemistry

316183091

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100639.Atom

Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

Kathryn Masson

The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes built by early California dreamers. Here domestic visions of tranquility and repose were inventively realized—in stucco or stone, wood and wrought iron, plaster, and glass and tile. Spanish Colonial Revival–style homes with elaborate wrought-iron window grilles, romantic, shadowy interiors, and lush courtyard gardens stand beside other particularly Californian architectural wonders such as the San Francisco Victorian Painted Lady, the Monterey Colonial, Eurekan Queen Anne, and the homey California Arts & Crafts. Including houses designed by luminaries George Washington Smith, Stanford White, Greene & Greene, and Reginald Johnson, this book will fascinate both the architecture aficionado and interior design enthusiasts, as well as the everyday lover of homes. Including, but going beyond, the much-adored Spanish style (in its many manifestations) and Mission Revival, the book features as well the Victorian of San Francisco's Painted Lady and Eureka's Queen Anne, Monterey Colonial, California Arts & Crafts, French Chateau, classic Colonial farm house, and more. All new color photography of 25 houses in California ranging in style from Spanish Colonial Revival, Mission, Victorian, Queen Anne, California Arts & Crafts, Monterey, French Chateau, Colonial Farm House. The book includes little known California work by well known architect Stanford White, known primarily for his East Coast work (designer of the original Penn Station with McKim, Mead & White, and original Madison Square Garden, and many others); as well as the Magdelena Zanone House (Queen Anne late Victorian style home in Eureka, CA); the Murphy House, San Francisco (Classic French Chateau); a Gothic Victorian 1860s home in Sonoma; Casa Amesti (Monterey style home); "El Cerrito" designed by Russel Ray and Winsor Soule and built in 1913 in Santa Barbara (an amalgam of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival); the Frothingham House designed by George Washington Smith in 1922 (Spanish Colonial Rev.); Cuartro Ventos House by Reginald Johnson, 1929 in Santa Barbara; William Edwards House by Roland E. Coate, Sr. in San Marino, 1926; Robinson House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, 1905; Sack House in Berkeley (California Arts & Crafts) Brune-Reutlinger House in San Francisco (classic Painted Lady Victorian); a colonial mid-19th cent farm house in Sonoma; "Mariposa," classic Spanish style in Montecito; The Marston House in San Diego (Arts & Crafts/Tudoresque); Rancho Los Alamos De Santa Elena in Los Alamos (Span. Col. Rev.); Pepper Hill Farm in Balard.

Nonfiction,Architecture

847835855

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10064068-the-california-house

The California House: Adobe. Craftsman. Victorian. Spanish Colonial Revival

Stephen James O'Meara

For more than two centuries, amateur astronomers have earned their stripes by observing the 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies cataloged by French comet hunter Charles Messier. Sir Patrick Moore has compiled a new list of 109 deep-sky delights, the Caldwell Catalog, which covers the entire celestial sphere. Stephen James O'Meara has observed all 109 Caldwell objects and Deep Sky Companions presents his beautiful sketches and detailed visual descriptions and discusses each object's rich history and astrophysical significance. The latest fundamental data on each object are tabulated, and the book's star charts will lead observers to each object's precise location. Stephen James O'Meara is known worldwide for his precise drawings of astronomical objects as seen through the telescope. Among his many astronomical achievements, he was the first to sight Halley's Comet on its 1985 return; he noticed the dark spokes in Saturn's B ring before the Voyager 1 spacecraft imaged them; and he was the first person to determine the rotation period of the distant planet Uranus. The International Astronomical Union named asteroid 3637 O'Meara in his honor. He is also the author of Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Objects (Cambridge, 1998) and co-author with his wife, Donna Donovan O'Meara, of Volcanoes: Passion and Fury (Sky Publishing, 1994).

Science,Astronomy,Science

521827965

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006408.Deep_Sky_Companions

Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects

Lawrence M. Krauss

In the bestselling ,The Physics of Star Trek, ,the renowned theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss took readers on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the ,Star Trek, universe to see how it stacked up against the real universe. Now, responding to requests for more as well as to a number of recent exciting discoveries in physics and astronomy, Krauss takes a provocative look at how the laws of physics relate to notions from our popular culture -- not only ,Star Trek,, but other films, shows, and popular lore -- from ,Independence Day, to ,Star Wars, to ,The X-Files.,What's the difference between a flying saucer and a flying pretzel?,Why didn't the aliens in ,Independence Day ,have to bother invading Earth to destroy it?,What's new with warp drives?,What's the most likely scenario for doomsday?,Are ESP and telekinesis impossible?,What do clairvoyance and time travel have in common?,How might quantum mechanics ultimately affect the fate of life in the universe?

Science,Media Tie In,Star Trek,Nonfiction,Science,Physics,Reference,Science Fiction Fantasy,Science,Popular Science,Writing,Essays,Culture,Pop Culture

60977574

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100641.Beyond_Star_Trek

Beyond Star Trek: From Alien Invasions to the End of Time

George Robert Kepple,Glen W. Sanner

Amateur astronomers today are exceptionally fortunate to be living in an era when high quality, and very large, optics are so affordable. In the first half of the 20th century the telescope deluxe for the amateur was the 6-inch refractor. However, such telescopes were so expensive that very few amateurs could afford them: the majority of stargazers had to content themselves with instruments in the 60mm range. Consequently, most observing guides published during that time emphasized double and multiple stars, with honorable mention for variable stars and planetary nebulae, objects which do well in long focal length refractors. Webb's 1858 Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes and Olcott's 1936 Field Book of the Skies were not superceded for so many decades simply because the average amateur instrument did not dramatically improve during the century after Webb. By the 1950s the mass-produced or homemade 6-inch parabolic mirror brought medium-sized optics into the price range of the average amateur, and with it the emission nebulae, open clusters, and galaxies that had been seen only as amorphous blobs-if seen at all-in small refractors. The The 1948 Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens had already displaced the classic Norton's Star Atlas as the frontline sky-chart for amateurs, but the observing guides badly needed rewriting. However, not until the 1970s and Burnham's Celestial Handbook was there an observing guide worthy of the 6-in

Science,Astronomy,Science,Reference

943396581

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006423.The_Night_Sky_Observer_s_Guide_

The Night Sky Observer's Guide : Vol. 1

Gary Faigin

This instructional and reference manual is a visual index of facial expressions. It centres on the muscles of expression and their effects as a basis for understanding and analyzing those expressions they see on models and in photographs. Artists will be aided in understanding expression and in creating expression. The book is organized around three parts - part one analyzes the basic structures of the head, the fundamental forms of the skull and recurring proportions, all in preparation for understanding full facial expression in part three. Part two describes the muscles of expression in the three key parts of the face. In part three, the basic facial forms from part two are combined to form the six basic human expressions - joy, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise. Each expression is depicted in steadily increasing intensity. Examples of facial images are drawn from a variety of photographic art and artistic sources.

Art,Art,Drawing,Nonfiction,Reference,Sequential Art,Comics,Psychology,Design,Art,Crafts,Art,Art Design

823016285

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006428.The_Artist_s_Complete_Guide_to_Facial_Expression

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression

Rob Faigin

DOUBLE VALUE PACK of Recent research has demonstrated that aging, health, and body composition are more closely interrelated than previously suspected, and hormones are the unifying factor. This realization presents the thrilling prospect of using one grand strategy to attack all three areas simultaneously - to arrest aging, while achieving super-health, while at the same time permanently eliminating excess body fat and enhancing lean body mass., Natural Hormonal Enhancement advances this grand strategy in a detailed, concise, step-by-step form that anyone can easily understand and follow. Available for immediate shipment (subject to stock level). ORDER Today!

Health,Health,Nutrition,Nonfiction

967560500

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006429.Natural_Hormonal_Enhancement

Natural Hormonal Enhancement

Robert Burnham Jr.

The three volume "Burnham's Celestial Handbook" series provides a constellation based, detailed and comprehensive guide to tens of thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system. The information presented includes: definitions, names, historical background, coordinates, classifications, physical descriptions, maps, charts, sketches, and observing guides. All told in an engaging manner.,The series became an instant success with amateur astronomers, and remained so for decades. While it is now dated, it is still a popular source of information.,Volume One lists the constellations from Andromeda to Cetus.

Science,Astronomy,Science,Reference,Space,Textbooks,Nonfiction,Reference,Guides,Science,Physics,Environment,Nature,Esoterica,Astrology

048623567X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006435.Burnham_s_Celestial_Handbook

Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Volume 1: Andromeda Through Cetus

Robert Burnham Jr.

The three volume "Burnham's Celestial Handbook" series provides a constellation based, detailed and comprehensive guide to tens of thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system. The information presented includes: definitions, names, historical background, coordinates, classifications, physical descriptions, maps, charts, sketches, and observing guides. All told in an engaging manner.,The series became an instant success with amateur astronomers, and remained so for decades. While it is now dated, it is still a popular source of information.,Volume Three lists the constellations from Pavo to Vulpecula.

Science,Astronomy,Science,Space,Reference,Textbooks

486240657

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006436.Burnham_s_Celestial_Handbook

Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Volume 3: Pavo Through Vulpecula

David R. Mains,Karen Burton Mains,Jack Stockman

Twelve stories centering on the adventures of two orphaned brothers who escape a polluted city ruled by an evil enchanter to seek their exiled king in the place where trees grow.

Fantasy,Christian,Fiction,Childrens,Christian Fiction,Religion,Faith,Young Adult,Religion,Religion,Christianity,Classics

891915605

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006442.Tales_of_the_Kingdom

Tales of the Kingdom

Sean Patrick Fannon,Aaron Acevedo

Here is everything players need to know to embark on an incredible gaming odyssey. Step-by-step guidelines explain how to get started, and game overviews across the genres cover all the options, even online. Includes a "game-o-pedia" reference (the most comprehensive glossary ever published on the subject) and other valuable resources.

Games,Gaming,Games,Role Playing Games,Nonfiction

967442907

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006443.Fantasy_Roleplaying_Gamer_s_Bible

Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible

Christian Cachin,Rachid Guerraoui,Luís Rodrigues

The scope of this second edition of the introduction to fundamental distributed programming abstractions has been extended to cover Byzantine fault tolerance . It includes algorithms to implement these abstractions in vulnerable distributed systems.

Science,Computer Science,Computer Science,Software,Computer Science,Programming,Computer Science,Technical,Science,Technology

3642152597

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10064443-introduction-to-reliable-and-secure-distributed-programming

Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming

Stephen Brumwell

This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 1763. It explores the Army's distinctive society, using new evidence to provide a voice for ordinary soldiers who have previously been ignored by historians. While other books on the period concentrate upon major personalities and events, this study examines events from the perspective of the individual: the experience of combat, captivity among the Indians, the Army's women and the fate of veterans. Stephen Brumwell is a former newspaper journalist and Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leeds and now works as a freelance writer. He is the author of scholarly articles and the co-author of The Cassell Companion to 18th Century British History (2001). Hb ISBN (2001) 0-521-80783-2

History,Military History,American Revolution,European Literature,British Literature,Nonfiction

521675383

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006444.Redcoats

Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763

Veronica Coulshed

This fourth edition of Veronica Coulshed's classic text has been meticulously revised to reflect the latest changes in social work education. Generic skills and processes such as communication and assessment are discussed alongside models and settings of practice. The relationship between theory, evidence and practice is fully explored throughout, ensuring this remains an ideal introduction for all beginning social work students as well as a handy refresher and companion for practitioners.

Social Science,Social Work

1403921555

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006457.Social_Work_Practice

Social Work Practice

Lawrence M. Krauss

Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persists forever? The answer depends on the amount and properties of matter in the universe, and that has given rise to one of the great paradoxes of modern cosmology: there is too little visible matter to account for the behavior we can see. Over ninety percent of the universe consists of "missing mass" or "dark matter" - what Lawrence Krauss, in his classic book, termed "the fifth essence."In this new edition of T ,he Fifth Essence, , retitled ,Quintessence, after the now widely accepted term for dark matter, Krauss shows how the dark matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the universe and the "cosmological constant." With a new introduction, epilogue, and chapter updates, Krauss updates his classic for 1999 and shares one of the most stunning discoveries of recent years: an anti-gravity force that explains recent observations of a permanently expanding universe.

Science,Science,Physics,Nonfiction,Science,Astronomy,Science,Popular Science

465037410

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100645.Quintessence

Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe

Mark A. Roeder

Someone Is Watching. Someone Knows. It was a nightmare come true for seventeen-year-old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows. Who is the mysterious note-writer, the secret tormentor? Who is the enemy that hides among Ethan's friends and teammates? Who holds Ethan's secret over his head, threatening to destroy his entire world? Someone Is Watching is the story of a young high school wrestler that must come to grips with being gay. He struggles first with himself, then with an unknown classmate that hounds his every step. While struggling to discover the identity of his tormentor, Ethan must discover his own identity and learn to live his life as his true self. In the end he is faced with a terrible decision. He must give up what he wants the most, or face his greatest fear of all.

Romance,M M Romance,Young Adult,LGBT,Gay,Romance,LGBT,Fiction,Contemporary,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Sports,Sports,GLBT,Queer

059529894X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006463.Someone_Is_Watching

Someone Is Watching

Lisa Nakamura

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Race,Nonfiction,Science,Technology,Academic,Philosophy,Theory

415938376

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006471.Cybertypes

Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

Hermann Hesse

Rosshalde ,is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.,Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth’s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

Fiction,Classics,European Literature,German Literature,Literature,Cultural,Germany,Novels,Nobel Prize,Philosophy,Literature,20th Century,Family

9500725959

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10064.Rosshalde

Rosshalde

Barry Stimmel

Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction will help people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, as well as help reverse the failure of current medical practice to routinely alleviate pain. As noted by a 1992 publication of the United States Department of Health Services, this devastating trend contributes to unnecessary discomfort, longer recovery periods, and compromised patient outcomes. By reading this book, frustrated physicians and, perhaps more importantly, persons in pain can acquire a better understanding of the nature of pain, its connection to the emotions and psychological state of patients, and the impact particular drugs have on the body; this will facilitate relief from pain among a higher percentage of the population.Opioid analgesics comprise many of the chapters in Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction. Author Barry Stimmel, MD, describes the principles to be followed in prescribing opioid analgesics to relieve pain while maintaining one's daily activities without any limitation in function. The available opioids are described, and the differences between them are reviewed to allow you--as a physician, health care provider, or even a patient--to gain a better insight into the one(s) to use for both acute and chronic pain states. The point that is emphasized is that dependency on an analgesic to relieve pain is no different than dependency on medications to lower blood pressure, prevent heart attacks, treat diabetes, etc. What should be avoided is "addiction," a condition where function is impaired rather than enhanced.Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction is a guidebook designed to assist physicians and other health professionals in developing a practical approach to pain management and to give patients a fuller understanding of their pain. You'll gain specific information about:,management of acute and chronic pain,pain in children,pain and cancer,pain and AIDS,psychological support of persons in pain,theories of pain perception,the anatomy of painIn Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction, you'll learn the basic concepts of drug dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal, the pharmacological actions and side effects of drugs used to provide analgesia, and the fundamental steps to be taken in proper pharmacological treatment of pain. The book produces more effective and more informed communication among physicians, other health professionals, and patients so that together they can achieve better pain relief. As Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction illustrates, it is crucial that both patients and physicians understand clearly the terms describing drug use and the behavioral, biochemical, and cellular concepts underlying dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal. Finally, you will acquire a knowledge of all the potential causes of pain and the appropriate steps for intervention.Medical students, new practitioners, and those wishing to reconsider their approaches to pain management will benefit from the book's coverage of general principles for pain control, the use of drug combinations to provide the most effective relief, methods for treating pain in different populations (such as the elderly and persons with chronic medical conditions), and alternative options for failed treatment. The scope of Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction reaches from nonprescription medications, such as aspirin, to NSAIDS, like ibuprofen, to narcotic analgesics to stimulants such as amphetamines and caffeine. It is the most comprehensive book available on various drugs, their desired effects and side effects, and their use to alleviate pain.

789001268

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10065046-pain-and-its-relief-without-addiction

Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction: Clinical Issues in the Use of Opioids and Other Analgesics

Mary Brooks Picken

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Crafts,Sewing

1446513904

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10065183-woman-s-institute-library-of-dressmaking---tailored-garments---essential

Woman's Institute Library Of Dressmaking - Tailored Garments - Essentials Of Tailoring, Tailored Buttonholes, Buttons, And Trimmings, Tailored Pockets, Tailored Seams And Plackets, Tailored Skirts, Tailored Blouses And Frocks, Tailored Suits, Coats, And C

Philip Athans,Kameron M. Franklin,Jaleigh Johnson,Ed Gentry,Murray J.D. Leeder,James P. Davis,Rosemary Jones,Erik Scott de Bie,Harley Stroh,J.L. Collins,Jim Pitrat,Erin Tettensor

An all-new anthology showcasing dragons of the FORGOTTEN REALMS,world and featuring new authors. ,This anthology features a range of stories by authors new to the Forgotten Realms setting writing about dragons. It fleshes out many details from Richard Lee Byers's Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy and features art work by award winning artist Matt Stawicki.

Dungeons and Dragons,Forgotten Realms,Fantasy,Fiction,Anthologies,Role Playing Games,Dungeons and Dragons,Short Stories,Anthologies,Collections,Fantasy,Dragons

786938080

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100651.Realms_of_the_Dragons_II

Realms of the Dragons II

Robert M. Price,Harper Williams,Jack Williamson,Nancy A. Collins,Stanley C. Sargent,Brian McNaughton,Richard A. Lupoff,Don D'Ammassa,Gerard E. Giannattasio,Eddy C. Bertin

This anthology, edited by Robert M. Price, is set in and around H. P. Lovecraft's fictional locale. The contributors are Jack Williamson, Stanley C. Sargent, Brian McNaughton, Richard A. Lupoff, Don D'Ammassa, Nancy A. Collins, Gerard E. Giannattasio, Eddy C. Bertin, and Price himself.,The anthology will also include a complete novel by Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods (1924) which provided the original inspiration for Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror.",Table Of Contents:,Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods.,Jack Williamson, "The Mark of the Monster",Nancy A. Collins, "The Thing from Lover's Lane",Robert M. Price, "Acute Spiritual Fear",Stanley C. Sargent, "Black Brat of Dunwich",Brian McNaughton, "The Dunwich Lodger",Richard A. Lupoff, "The Doom that Came to Dunwich",Don D'Ammassa, "The Dunwich Gate",Gerard E. Giannattasio, "The N-Scale Horror",Eddy C. Bertin, "Dunwich Dreams, Dunwich Screams"

Horror,Horror,Lovecraftian

974878995

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006531.Tales_Out_of_Dunwich

Tales Out of Dunwich

Matt Myklusch

Jack Blank is living the dream as a celebrity superhero-in-training in the Imagine Nation. Unfortunately, Jack's dream has a nightmare lurking under the surface- a shocking connection to the enemy supersoldier Revile, and a deadly Rüstov plot he can't tell anyone about... not even his closest friends.,When the heroes of the Imagine Nation discover that an attack by Rüstov sleeper agents is imminent, Jack is forced to trust his friends in a race against the clock to fight back mass hysteria, find the enemy spies, and thwart the Rüstov plans in time to prevent a devastating invasion.

Fantasy,Science Fiction,Adventure,Fiction,Childrens,Middle Grade,Comics,Superheroes,Young Adult,Audiobook,Action,Childrens,Juvenile

1416995641

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10065348-the-secret-war

The Secret War

Stephen Houston,Karl A. Taube,David Stuart

Three leading experts on the Maya marshal a vast array of evidence from Mayan iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today.

History

292712944

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006540.The_Memory_of_Bones

The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya

Michael Bronski

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction,The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.,In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, changed her name to “Publick Universal Friend,” refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-nineteenth century, internationally famous Shakespearean actor Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publicized “female marriage.” And in the late 1920s, Augustus Granville Dill was fired by W. E. B. Du Bois from the NAACP’s magazine the ,Crisis, after being arrested for a homosexual encounter. These are just a few moments of queer history that Michael Bronski highlights in this groundbreaking book. ,  , Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, ,A Queer History of the United States, is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, noted scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the 1990s, and has written a testament to how the LGBT experience has profoundly shaped our country, culture, and history. ,  ,A Queer History of the United States, abounds with startling examples of unknown or often ignored aspects of American history—the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies, the prevalence of cross-dressing women soldiers in the Civil War, the impact of new technologies on LGBT life in the nineteenth century, and how rock music and popular culture were, in large part, responsible for the devastating backlash against gay rights in the late 1970s. Most striking, Bronski documents how, over centuries, various incarnations of social purity movements have consistently attempted to regulate all sexuality, including fantasies, masturbation, and queer sex. Resisting these efforts, same-sex desire flourished and helped make America what it is today. ,  , At heart, ,A Queer History of the United States, is simply about American history. It is a book that will matter both to LGBT people and heterosexuals. This engrossing and revelatory history will make readers appreciate just how queer America really is.

History,Nonfiction,LGBT,GLBT,Queer,Social Movements,Social Justice,North American Hi...,American History,Historical,Politics,Feminism,LGBT,Gay

807044393

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10065595-a-queer-history-of-the-united-states

A Queer History of the United States

Eva Wong

Here, Taoist practitioner Eva Wong offers a colorful treatment of the history and evolution of Taoism, told through traditional teaching tales. These tales, which Wong first heard as a child growing up in Hong Kong, are gleaned from the local storytellers and the uncensored chronicles known as ,yeshi,—the wild history of China, not monitored by the official imperial scholars and historians. The stories are by turns mysterious and intriguing, passionate and violent, and they are peppered with colorful characters, including hermits, politicians, social activists, revolutionaries, scholars, scientists, and mystics.,Arranged chronologically from prehistory through the early twentieth century, these stories introduce the schools in the Taoist lineages, and capture the defeats and victories of Taoism, its periods of decadence and decay, and its renewal, maturation, and spiritual triumph. Wong puts these stories into context, and shows that Taoism is a dynamic spiritual tradition, constantly changing—and being influenced by—history.

Religion,Nonfiction,Cultural,China,Religion,Taoism,Philosophy

159030523X

https://goodreads.com/book/show/100655.Tales_of_the_Dancing_Dragon

Tales of the Dancing Dragon: Stories of the Tao

Margie Hunter

“An invaluable resource for the home or commercial gardener who wishes to plant native species.”—Edward W. Chester, Austin Peay State University,The natural landscape of Tennessee represents a unique treasure for gardeners and nature lovers. Encompassing several geographically distinctive regions, from the 6,000-foot peaks of the Unaka Mountains to the swampy floodplain of the Mississippi River, the state boasts nearly 3,000 native plant species. This stunning diversity of life owes much to Tennessee’s prime location at the crossroads of mountain and prairie ecosystems and in the transition area between northern and southern climate patterns.,In Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee, Margie Hunter gives gardeners the knowledge they need in order to nurture this natural heritage in their own gardens. Beginning with a survey of the state’s ecology—including geology, geography, plant life and animal species—Hunter takes a holistic approach to the process of gardening with native plants. The book’s main section provides detailed accounts of 450 species of wildflowers, ferns, grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees native to Tennessee and adjacent states. These descriptions, arranged according to plant type, include both scientific and common name, flowering and fruiting times, propagation methods, soil and light requirements, and distribution patterns within the state. Nearly 400 color photographs illustrate the species discussions.,No other book designed for the home gardener includes such area-specific information on native species or such a comprehensive listing of plants. Appendixes refer readers to other sources of information and seeds, including mail-order nurseries, botanical gardens, state agencies, native plant organizations, and subject-specific conferences. A detailed bibliography also contributes to the reference value of this book for gardeners, landscapers, and nature lovers throughout Tennessee and in neighboring states.,The Author: Margie Hunter, a long-time volunteer at Cheekwood Botanical Garden, lives in Nashville.

Nonfiction,Gardening,Gardening,Horticulture,Nature,Plants

1572331550

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006582.Gardening_with_the_Native_Plants_of_Tennessee

Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee: The Spirit of Place

Eugenie Bird,David Downton,David Ellwand

Do you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion - where feathered hats are designed for maximum lift, oak leaf jackets boast ample wing vents, and flower-petal flats are easily removable for flight.,In the fairie world, there is only one top designer of couture and accessories . . .,Prepare to be enchanted! While humans go about their workaday lives, there is a secret world of well-dressed fairies flitting about in fragile fashions that would take your breath away - if only you could see them. Well, now you can. For the first time ever, elusive fairie couturier Ellwand allows mortals a peek at his ethereal designs in FAIRIE-ALITY, a catalogue so spectacularly crafted it befits a fairie queen herself. Showcased are nearly 150 creations - including dresses, jackets, trousers, shoes, hats, and delicate unmentionables - fashioned wholly from feathers, flower petals, shells, seeds, and other materials from nature. Consider these special features:,Extraordinary production elements, including three specially selected paper stocks; metallic inks; fold-out booklets; vellum envelope with removable fashion card; and numerous half-, third-, and quarter-pages, notably to showcase garments for a playful mix & match, offering dozens of outfits to create.,Drawings by celebrated fashion illustrator David Downton, capturing the graceful, but rarely glimpsed, fairie attired in Ellwand’s designs.,Witty and delightfully romantic captions by Eugenie Bird. ,A breathless narrative by a young fairie guiding us from The Season’s start through May Day revelry and a Fairie Tale Wedding.,Filled with authentic fairie lore that will lure fairie lovers by the legion, this superbly designed volume also offers many clever nods to human fashion history. Its fun, fanciful costume descriptions will amuse the fashion-savvy everywhere, while the stunning array of fashions themselves - a veritable dress-up dream - will leave readers of all ages spellbound.

Art,Fantasy,Couture,Fashion,Paranormal,Fairies,Childrens,Picture Books,Reference,Fiction,Fantasy,Fairy Tales,Fantasy,Mythology,Fairies,Fae

763614130

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006591.Fairie_ality

Fairie-ality: The Fashion Collection from the House of Ellwand

Gene Brewer

Imagine a time and space traveler from another planet. One that looks human and exemplifies the ideal world he comes from, a world free from human nature's greed and cruelty. That creature would be "prot", as he calls himself, the newest patient at the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute.,Prot seems to know more than he should about faster-than-the-speed-of-light-travel. And besides drawing constellations as viewed from K-PAX, the name of his home planet, "prot" can describe its orbit around double suns in unpublished detail. Who is "prot" and where did he really come from? Why does he have the ability to cure severe mental cases? And to disappear at will? And to charm everyone he comes into contact with?,Bizarre delusion or reality? Listen in as a psychiatrist who specializes in delusional behavior documents his sessions with the man from K-PAX.,(P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Science Fiction,Fiction,Novels,Mystery,Psychology,Audiobook,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Aliens,Literature,American,Science Fiction Fantasy

312977026

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006596.K_Pax

K-Pax

Kathryn Best

Design Management (the management of design strategies, processes and projects) is an intricate subject. As the role of design in the world continues to broaden, organisations are increasingly viewing design as being integral to their decision-making processes. This book leads the student through the key knowledge, practice and skill areas of design management, focusing on the strategy, process and implementation involved in the management of design. Opening with a contextual overview of the subject, this book then explores the stages involved in the application of design to business. Each topic is accompanied by key questions that get the reader to think about the issues raised, and professional case studies and interviews demonstrate the knowledge and practices described. Areas of key practical skills are outlined in order to bridge the gap between creativity management and academic theory, and professional practice. 

Design,Nonfiction,Business,Management

2940373124

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006598.Design_Management

Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation

Louis Sachar,Joel Schick

Louis yard teacher starts off 30 tales of unusual students. Comic sketches precede every chapter. Todd brings a cute adorable plastic puppy who bites back when Joy steals it. Cafeteria Mrs Mush serves Mushroom Surprise that changes Ron. When Paul falls out the window, Leslie offers her pigtails to pull him back. On 19th floor, invisible Allison finds Miss Zarves' class.

Childrens,Fiction,Humor,Childrens,Middle Grade,Young Adult,Fantasy,Childrens,Juvenile,Short Stories,Academic,School,Humor,Comedy

380731509

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10065.Wayside_School_Is_Falling_Down

Wayside School Is Falling Down

Jason Hazeley,Alex Morris,Joel Morris

The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, don't worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique and, dammit, British.,In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels under Liverpool and a terraced house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus's return. And along the way they met the people behind them all: enthusiasts, eccentrics and, you know, those who just sort of fell into looking after a vast collection of gnomes ...,Makes you proud!

Nonfiction,Travel,Humor,European Literature,British Literature,Humor,Comedy,Reference

141021209

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006600.Bollocks_to_Alton_Towers

Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out

Marianne Hirsch

Maternal repression is at the basis of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Only with modernism does the mother become a central figure-both celebrated and ambivalent -in daughter-artist's text and family romance. For modernist heroines, psychoanalytic theories of femininity of the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as the novels of Woolf, Colette, and Wharton, show painful oscillations and contradictions between maternal and paternal identifications. Hirsch argues that fictional and theoretical feminist writing still situates itself at uncomfortable distance from the maternal: the concrete stories of mothers are still unspeakable or as Alice Walker says, 'cruel enough to stop the blood.' They point to a feminist discourse of identity which begins with mothers and thereby reframes our conception of self, family, and plot.

Philosophy,Theory

253205328

https://goodreads.com/book/show/1006604.Mother_Daughter_Plot

Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

Jim Benton

There are more than 5 million Dear Dumb Diary books in print! ,Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don't tell her. ,Dear Dumb Diary, ,I went five whole days without seeing or hearing from Angeline. I was beginning to get used to it. It's true that I have learned to overlook many of Angeline's flaws, like her flawlessness, but she can still be difficult to be around. Like when she's lit perfectly, for example. ,To my extreme credit, I have learned to pretend to ignore Angeline's failure to not be perfect.

Humor,Childrens,Childrens,Middle Grade,Realistic Fiction,Fiction,Diary,Childrens,Juvenile,Humor,Comedy,Contemporary,Sequential Art,Graphic Novels

545116163

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10066125-me-just-like-you-only-better

Me! (Just Like You, Only Better)

Robert Duncan

Volume 2 details the CIA's practices of interrogation and cybernetic mind control in their pursuit to weaponize neuropsychology. It covers the art of bio-communication war. Human beings are complex machines but their inner workings have been deciphered. Mind control and brainwashing have been perfected in the last 60 years. Hacking computers and hacking into individual minds are similar. The 21st century will be known as the age of spiritual machines and soulless men.

1452804087

https://goodreads.com/book/show/10066126-project

Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed