Barbara: 8138 books
by Barbara J. King
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun...
1,000 Things to Love About America
Celebrating the Reasons We’re Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we’re proud to call America home—from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle...
by Lou Fant, Barbara Bernstein Fant
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Quick and easy phrases in ASL for daily life
Perfect Phrases for American Sign Language provides 150 essential phrases for hearing-impaired users of ASL and those who interact with them. ASL expert Barbara Bernstein Fant--carrying on the work of her late husband Lou--and illustrator Betty Miller...
Homegrown Pantry
A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Now that you’ve mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops — including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more — to keep your pantry...
Cloth Doll Artistry
Design and Costuming Techniques for Flat and Fully Sculpted Figures
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images,...
When Your Child Breaks Your Heart
Help for Hurting Moms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When a son or daughter chooses a different path from mom and dad, or when tragedy strikes a family, it is hard to reconcile the present with all our hopes for the future. Our children's decisions may conflict with the way we raised them. We may lose contact as members of the family shut each other...
The Overcomer's Anointing
God's Plan to Use Your Darkest Hour as Your Greatest Spiritual Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Because God is light, many Spirit-filled Christians overlook the fact that believers go through times of dark spiritual battle. Yet throughout the Bible and church history, we see God bringing his light into the darkest places in order to transform them. Pastor Barbara Yoder wants believers to know...
by Barbara Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
BARBARA RAMSEY knew from childhood on that she would someday write a book. As an avid reader all her life, years passed, and the main subject of that book kept evading her. Until . . . one defining day in June, 2010, when brain cancer rudely crashed into the middle of her normal existence, creating...
The Primal Teen
What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A groundbreaking look at the teenage brain for anyone who has puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager.
While many members of the scientific community have long held that the growing pains of adolescence are primarily psychological, Barbara Strauch highlights...
Beyond the Deep
The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves.
The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized,...
The Next Elvis
Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there...
Paradigms and Sand Castles
Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.
Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Natural Causes
An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A New York Times bestseller!
From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe,...
by Barbara Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1991
Sydney Lattimore was sure her beautiful sister could capture the interest of a wealthy parti if they could finance their way to London with their grandfathers half-pay and Sydneys clever management. Viscount Mainwaring could scarcely believe the courage this little copper-haired sprite showedand the...