Bird: 743 books

A practical introduction to the engineering science required for engineering study and practice. Science for Engineering is an introductory textbook that assumes no prior background in engineering. This new edition covers the fundamental scientific knowledge that all trainee engineers must...

Studying engineering, whether it is mechanical, electrical or civil, relies heavily on an understanding of mathematics. This textbook clearly demonstrates the relevance of mathematical principles and shows how to apply them in real-life engineering problems. It deliberately starts at an elementary...

This new title from Bradt is the only English-language guide to focus on Pays de la Loire: The Vendée and surrounding area including Pornic, La Rochelle, Île de Ré and Nantes, an increasingly popular part of France. Written by award-winning travel writer Murray Stewart and Angela Bird, who for...

Explains the importance of the title and role of Messiah in each of the Gospels and argues that Christianity was a messianic movement rooted in its Jewish context. Michael Bird engages the subject of the messianism of the four Gospels. While the title and role of 'Messiah' ascribed to Jesus...

Get the hands-on practice and reinforcement you need to master the concepts and skills covered inModern Dental Assisting, 12th Edition. With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Bird & Robinson’s bestselling textbook, this workbook features ample review questions and exercises, competency...

Wendi Bird Barnhart strikes again with this collection of twisted delights. She continues to prove her innate ability to twist the endings of her poetry and prose, leaving you wondering what the next line has in store. - Rev. Dr. Deborah Simpson, owner of Spirit Cove, LLC. Wendi Bird Barnhart-...

'Isn't there something I can do, doctor?' When faced with health problems which are not responding to medical treatment, this is the question posed often to GPs, not least Dr Roger Neighbour (OBE DSc FRCGP FRCP, Past President RCGP, Patron British Autogenic Society), who has written the foreword to this...

Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul   Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline...

Many Christians who know and love the Bible think they know the apostle Paul. He's a theological master, a pastoral mentor, a spiritual adviser and a missionary hero. Yet just when we think we have him in our grasp, he slips through our fingers. At the point where we suppose we have finally understood...

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii. Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six Months in the Sandwich Isles, in which she describes...

A commentary and study on the Baptism in the holy Spirit by Darrel Bird and Dr. Adrian Bury.

The stories here told come down to us from very ancient times. Grandfathers have told them to their grandchildren, and these again to their grandchildren, and so from mouth to mouth, through many generations, they have reached our time. So enjoy fascinating Native American stories and Blackfeet legends,...

Published in 1875, this account of Bird's visit to the Hawaiian islands consists of her letters home to her sister.  As well as providing an unequaled glimpse into a vanished Hawaii, the letters brim with personal discovery, as Bird, who undertook the journey for health purposes, transforms herself into a brave adventurer.

In Korea and Her Neighbours, written in two volumes between 1894 and 1897, Isabella Bird documents one of the most critical and interesting periods of Korean history. Violently torn from centuries of seclusion, this fragile nation awoke to find itself confronted on all sides by an array of powerful,...