Armstrong: 1158 books
The Campbell Armstrong Collection Volume One
The Wanting and Letters from the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A pair of chilling horror novels from the international bestselling author who “writes much better than King or Straub” (The Village Voice).
Writing as Campbell Black, international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong proves he’s as adept at evoking horror as he is at plotting heart-stopping...
by Dan Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Growing up, author Dan Armstrong dreamed of becoming an FBI agent or a police officer. He hadn’t considered working as a cable guy. He didn’t know it was a profession. But when he was twenty years old, Armstrong began working for his local cable television company and hasn’t looked back. In...
by Charlotte Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award–winning author.
The small mining town of Thor is nestled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. Its only source of income is the two ore mines—one to the...
Inclusive Education
International Policy & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
What does inclusion really mean and what impact have inclusive approaches to education had on practice?
Bringing together issues of theory, research, policy and practice from both the countries of the South and the North, this ground-breaking book provides a critical discussion of recent developments...
In Search of Civilization
Remaking a Tarnished Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
"A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better." *
In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness....
Live Strong
Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors-from Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Survivors from all walks of life talk about what “living strong” in the face of cancer means to them.
Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the...
Show of Hands
A Natural History of Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts...
by Victoria Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated...
Think Again
How to Reason and Argue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced a virulent...
God? : A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. Now two articulate spokesmen--one a Christian the other an atheist--duel over God's existence in an illuminating battle of ideas. In God? A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong...
Universals
An Opinionated Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In this short text, a distinguished philosopher turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class? Professor Armstrong carefully sets out six major theories,ancient,...
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs. How can we be justified in holding on to our own moral beliefs while recognizing that other intelligent people feel quite differently and that many...
The Challenge of Bewilderment
Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between...
by Hubert Saint-Onge, Charles Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this...