Becker: 1229 books
Brains
A Zombie Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
“A witty and unexpected take on the zombie genre; I had a great time.”
—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels
Subtitled “A Zombie Memoir,” Brains looks at America’s favorite walking-dead flesh-eaters from an audaciously original and...
A New Stoicism
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but...
When The War Was Over
Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian...
Decorate Workshop
Design and Style Your Space in 8 Creative Steps
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
A companion to Decorate, the international bestseller, this interactive guide takes readers step by step through the decorating process of beloved stylist and blogger Holly Becker. In Decorate Notebook, Becker shares her personal design philosophy and explains how to carry a vision into a finished...
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Essential Practices and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Grounded in attachment theory and trauma, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment for complex trauma and disorders of attachment. This manual for the practice of DDP will give therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential...
Pachakutik
Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE),...
Making the Grade
The Academic Side of College Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages....
by Richard Becker
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
For more than a century, "Becker" and its forerunner, "Abraham-Becker," have served as the bible of electromagnetic theory for countless students. This definitive translation of the physics classic features both volumes of the original text.
Volume I, on electromagnetic theory,...
Rogue Regime
Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million...
Black Elvis
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.
In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis...
The Myth of Empowerment
Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture-both popular and professional-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others...
Amazigh Arts in Morocco
Women Shaping Berber Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewelry. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly...
Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past
Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In this wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, Catherine Becker examines how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential human concerns. Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past addresses the fundamental Buddhist question of how humanity...
The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes
An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world; the American Diabetes Association reports that 1.7 million new diagnoses are made each year. After her own diagnosis, Gretchen Becker became a "patient-expert," educating herself on every aspect of type 2 diabetes and eventually...