Edmund: 703 books
Working with Older Persons
Cognitive and Phenomenological Methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essential purpose of this book is to provide practitioners and students of the human service professions with a practice approach and methodology that has been developed over the past ten years in both research and clinical work with older persons. It is concerned with the kinds of emotional prob...
by Edmund Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
TEN MEN AND WOMEN ESCAPED IN THE STARSHIP - THE ONLY HOME THEY WOUKD KNOW FOR GENERATIONS - THE SEED FROM WHICH THEY WOULD BUILD A NEW RACE.
The Solarian was a hundred metres high and, at its broadest point, twenty metres in diameter. It was designed to carry an initial crew of ten people -...
Beat the Booze: A comprehensive guide to combating drink problems in all walks of life
A comprehensive guide to combating drink problems in all walks of life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Reclaim your life Beat The Booze is an inspirational, easy to read and highly practical book aimed at those who wish to cut down or cut out alcohol and at those who wish to help someone else who has a drink problem. It can help both problem drinkers and individuals who wish to reduce their alcohol intake...
by Edmund Clingan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Over the past 250 years, Europe and the United States have changed from simple societies into complex, densely-populated, industrial powerhouses. Th s book explains how it happened in clear language intended for the general reader. Each chapter includes a timeline, key terms and persons, and web-based...
Evolutionary History
Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in other species has probably been the most...
by Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.
Cerebral Cortex
Principles of Operation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex. These principles are key to understanding how we, as humans, function. There have been few previous attempts to set out some of the important principles of operation of the cortex, and this book is...
by Edmund Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
With the courts of Siam and Muscat, it will be seen, I was enabled to effect the most friendly relation, and to place our commerce on a basis in which the excessive export and import duties, previously demanded, were reduced fifteen per cent.
Encounters Old and New in World History
Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their...
by Edmund Glasby
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Professor Mandrake Smith would be unrecognisable to his former colleagues now, but the shambling, drink-addled former Professor of Anthropology at Oxford is now barely surviving in Morecambe. Here he has many things to forget, although some don't want to forget him. Plagued by the nightmares of his past,...
Engines of Discovery
A Century of Particle Accelerators
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The first edition of Engines of Discovery celebrated in words, images and anecdotes the accelerators and their constructors that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. But even before the Higgs was discovered, before the champagne corks popped and while the television producers brushed up...
The Unconditioned Mind
J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
“Like an iridescent diamond,” is how David Moody describes revered philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti in this intimate portrait of him at the Oak Grove School in California. Krishnamurti, once groomed by Theosophists to become the next World Teacher, founded the school in 1975 and personally oversaw...
When There were Tigers in Singapore
A family saga of the Japanese occupation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author’s grandfather, faces a dilemma — he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki...
The Bunkhouse Man
Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology,...