Boyer: 273 books
Agile Business Rule Development
Process, Architecture, and JRules Examples
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Business rules are everywhere. Every enterprise process, task, activity, or function is governed by rules. However, some of these rules are implicit and thus poorly enforced, others are written but not enforced, and still others are perhaps poorly written and obscurely enforced. The business rule...
Local Library, Global Passport
The Evolution of a Carnegie Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership.
Several thousand Carnegie libraries were built a century...
That Dorky Homemade Look
Quilting Lessons From A Parallel Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Fed up with feeling like you can't meet the standards of the Quilt Police? Do you want to quilt for comfort and pleasure -- and not to win some high-falutin' quilting contest? Weary of worrying about what others will think of your color choices -- or your pieced points? Or your applique stitches?...
Stash Envy
And Other Quilting Confessions And Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Another book of quilting humor -- from the author of the ever-popular book "That Dorky Homemade Look!" Funny woman Lisa Boyer is an expert quilter. And she's determined to enjoy making quilts. In fact, she will not -- absolutely will not -- let the risk of making a mistake, or a less-than- perfect...
The March of Days
Optimistic Realism through the Seasons of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community...
by Janet Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Author Janet Boyer has endured—and triumphed over—abuse, bullying, a bus accident that almost left her crippled for life, major depression, widowhood, gender discrimination, organizational boycotting, stalking, slander, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and her only son’s Autism spectrum diagnosis...
by Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Argens
Language: French
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Contre les Galiléens Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Argens, militaire et écrivain français (1704-1771)
Ce livre numérique présente «Contre les Galiléens», de Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Argens, édité en texte intégral. Une table...
Zweisprachigkeit/Bilingualität
Ein Ratgeber für Eltern
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Immer mehr Kinder wachsen in Deutschland mit mehr als einer Sprache auf. Eltern stellen sich dann häufig die Frage, welche Auswirkungen es auf die Sprachentwicklung ihres Kindes hat, wenn ihr Kind zweisprachig aufwächst. Sie möchten wissen, ob es sinnvoll oder schlecht für ihr Kind ist, zweisprachig...
E l’uomo creò gli dei
Come spiegare la religione
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In questo libro fondamentale, tradotto per la prima volta in italiano, Boyer spiega come gli esseri umani abbiano formato i loro concetti religiosi e i motivi della loro diffusione culturale.L'autore giunge a una spiegazione naturalista della religione senza tralasciare nessun aspetto: il sovrannaturale,...
by Pascal Boyer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2007
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2007
En este libro, Pascal Boyer demuestra a través de la ciencia cómo las creencias religiosas se pueden explicar gracias a cómo funciona el cerebro.
¿Por qué los hombres tienen una religión portadora de la verdad? ¿Por qué persiste a pesar de los descubrimientos científicos? ¿Por qué...
Bachelor Party Confidential
A Real-Life Peek Behind the Closed-Door Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
First comes love;
then comes marriage. . . .
But in between there's the
bachelor party.
Lesbian strippers, dwarf tossing, boozy confessions, missing grooms -- modern bachelor party lore is enough to terrify any jittery bride. But what's real and what's testosterone-fueled legend? For the first...
by Paul Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which climaxed in the Salem witch trials From rich and varied sources—many neglected and...
Direct Democracy in Canada
The History and Future of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Direct Democracy in Canada: The History and Future of Referendums surveys Canada’s century-long record of plebiscites and referendums. J. Patrick Boyer analyzes the effects of the three national referendums and the development of a consensus. This companion volume to The People’s Mandate studies...
Forcing Choice
The Risky Reward of Referendums
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What happens when crucial public issues are decided the people themselves?
Canadians answered “Yes” or “No” to prohibiting alcohol, conscripting soldiers, and revamping our constitution. Forcing such crucial choices at the ballot box is high-stakes...