Daniel J : 712 books
The Creators
A History of Heroes of the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national...
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.
Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing...
The Whole-Brain Child
12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book.
“Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D.
In...
Parenting from the Inside Out
How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
An updated edition—with a new preface—of the bestselling parenting classic by the author of "BRAINSTORM: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain"
In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore...
Disciplina sin lágrimas
Una guía imprescindible para orientar y alimentar el desarrollo mental de tu hijo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Una guía imprescindible para orientar y alimentar el desarrollo mental de tu hijo.
Por los autores del best seller internacional El cerebro del niño**.**
Los autores de El cerebro del niño, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson, analizan, en esta ocasión, el desafío primordial en...
by Daniel J. Harrington, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Do Catholics really read the Bible? If so, how do they read it and is there anything unique about their approach? What role does the Bible play in Catholic life, teaching, and culture?
As a leading Scripture scholar who also teaches students and preaches to everyday people, Fr. Daniel Harrington,...
The Trigger
Narratives of the American Shooter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.
In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer...
The Invisible Line
A Secret History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in...
by Daniel J. Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
From Communes to the Clintons
Why does Hillary Clinton crusade for government-provided health care for every American, for the redistribution of wealth, and for child rearing to become a collective obligation? Why does Al Gore say that it’s okay to “over-represent” the dangers of global...
The World in Six Songs
How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times).
Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music,...
Fort Halifax
Winslow's Historic Outpost
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Winslow has grown up around Fort Halifax in its many, many incarnations. Beginning as a French and Indian War garrison and trading post, the fort welcomed historic figures from Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr to Paul Revere and Chief Joseph Orono. Reduced to one small blockhouse in the 1800s, Fort Halifax...
A Superpower Transformed
The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that...
Blue Collar Intellectuals
When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so
Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?
At the same time, those who pursue...
Why the Left Hates America
Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
"The American flag stands for hatred, warmongering, and imperialism."
"Our free-market system is responsible for killing and oppressing millions of people."
"This country breeds racists and sexists."
Is America really that bad? It is if you accept the lies and propaganda...