A Michael: 1281 books
The Insomnia Workbook for Teens
Skills to Help You Stop Stressing and Start Sleeping Better
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Sleep is food for the brain—especially for teens. Based on the most current sleep science and evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions to improve sleep, The Insomnia Workbook for Teens helps teens change their sleep habits so that they can feel more alert and ready to face life’s...
How Learning Works
Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Praise for How Learning Works
"How Learning Works is the perfect title for this excellent book. Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitive science, the authors have demystified a complex topic into clear explanations of seven powerful learning principles. Full of...
Politics with the People
Building a Directly Representative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government....
by Michael A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Though the United Federation of Planets still reels from Andor’s political decision that will forever affect the coalition, Captain William T. Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan are carrying out Starfleet’s renewed commitment to deep space exploration. While continuing to search the Beta Quadrant’s...
by Michael A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The Romulan Star Empire engages in all out war against Earth, determined once and for all to stop the human menace from spreading across the galaxy.
Earth stands alone.
The Coalition of Planets has shattered, with Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar abrogating the treaty. Their pledge to come...
by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
To protect the cargo ships essential to the continuing existence of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, the captains of the United Earth's Starfleet are ordered to interstellar picket duty, with little more to do than ask "Who goes there?" into the darkness of space.
Captain Jonathan Archer...
by Michael A. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
TO KEEP THE PEACE...
Along with the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion inherited a number of problems. Foremost among them is the Clans' threat to the peace of the Inner Sphere—and his treacherous sister who wants to supplant him. The expected demise of Joshua...
by Michael A. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
STRIKE AT THE HEART OF THE ENEMY…
Task Force Serpent has triumphed and Clan Smoke Jaguar is shattered beyond redemption. But the final battle is still to come, when Prince Victor Steiner-Davion braves the unknown and travels to the very heart of the Clans: Strana Mechty. There, with elite...
1980s Childhood
From He-Man to Shell Suits
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Rev up the DeLorean, switch on the Flux Capacitor, and take a cruise back through the decade that made you the person you are todayAnyone who remembers trying to solve a Rubik's Cube while dressed in their He-Man picture pajamas, or trying to make "cool" sound effects with their mouth...
by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
"Trust Yourself" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...
American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children
A Reader and Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay...
Exiting Vietnam
The Era of Vietnamization and American Withdrawal Revealed in First-Person Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years. This illuminating volume chronicles this withdrawal, its background, and its impact through a combination of official history and first-person...
Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Fathers of Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Finding my father was a wonderful feeling; forgiving him was even better. I have been set free, and now I can look at all the houses he built and the St. Louis arch in four states: South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Missouri.
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...