Ball: 664 books

Learn to take advantage of the opportunities offered by SQL Server 2014 Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 update means big changes for database administrators, and you need to get up to speed quickly because your methods, workflow, and favorite techniques will be different from here on out. The update's...

Through discussions of the dynamics of self-esteem, stories of successful life transformations, and powerful exercises that really work, psychotherapist and teacher Carolyn Ball shows that when we learn to love and respect ourselves, we can live the kind of happy and creative lives we have always wanted.

Life is the ultimate game all of us who are alive are forced to play. We will encounter many situations in our lives and no rule book will be handy to help us through those circumstances. What we will do is survive the situation, learn from it, and create operating procedures to guide us through similar...

Over the last few years there has been a revolution in the way we think about horses. At last we have clear ideas about how horses see the world, and about how they feel about themselves and the things we ask them to do. This book helps us to put these insights to work. Emotional Healing...

Cats have their ups and downs, just like people. Emotional Healing for Cats tells you what to do on the down days, including how to: -help your cat adjust to change and deal with illness and anxiety -deal with behavioural problems -understand life from your cat's point of view With a full guide...

Hubo un tiempo en que la curiosidad era algo condenable: a fin de cuentas, por su culpa cometió Eva ese pecado original que al parecer aún estamos pagando. Y sin embargo, no es fácil frenar la curiosidad humana. Llevados por ella, hoy nos gastamos fortunas en construir un acelerador de partículas...

Carlos A. Ball argues that as progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other LGBT opponents, they should take care not to forget the crucial role the First Amendment played in the early decades of the movement, and not to erode the safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to exist in the first place.

More Models - More Photos - More History Robert Ball, the world's foremost authority on Mauser military rifles, continues to scour the continents in search of more details and models of this ubiquitous rifle. His years of research and expertise culminate in this definitive, full-color Mauser...

In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical...

K.C. Ball gives us an A.I.’s view of the complexities of love, space travel, and physics in “Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole.” “Frost Painting” by Carolyn Ives Gilman takes a poignant look at a relationship in the wake of a very different kind of alien invasion....

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe, contrary to the prevailing thought at his time which placed the Earth at the center. The publication...

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. His monograph Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in...

First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Michael...