Garth: 367 books
The Expert's Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery
Is it right for me? What happens during surgery? How do I keep the weight off?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
**An indispensible guide to weight-loss surgery written by a leading bariatric surgeon
Today, an estimated 44 million Americans suffer from obesity. For one in five Americans, diet and exercise simply don't work. Luckily, weight-loss surgeries offer a realistic solution that can help people...
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER
MEET THE DOG
WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD
HOW TO BE HUMAN
The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting...
by Garth RISK HALLBERG
Language: French
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Un roman ambitieux, magistral, d'une incroyable intensité. Un véritable tour de force.
31 décembre 1976. New York se prépare pour le réveillon. Chez les Hamilton-Sweeney, Felicia accueille financiers et mondains tandis qu'à l'autre bout de la ville, dans le Lower East Side, Charlie attend Samantha...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
African Cities
Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies....
Ways of Social Change
Making Sense of Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The world is at our fingertips, but understanding what is going on has never been more daunting. Garth Massey’s Ways of Social Change is a primer for making sense of both rapidly moving events and the cultural and structural forces on which social life is built, while teaching critical thinking...
by Garth Alperstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town’s mayor, a publican. He grew up between the hotel, where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town’s less salubrious goings...
Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature...
Arthur Lydiard
Master Coach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Arthur Lydiard was the most successful and influential running coach of the last fifty years. He burst into prominence at the Rome Olympics in 1960 when two of his protégés, Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, won Olympic gold medals on the same day. His team of runners, trained to brilliance, went on...
The Climate Caper
Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
So you think the theory of disastrous climate change has been proven? You believe scientists are united in their efforts to affect a reduction in carbon emissions? You trust that scientists are far too professional to overstate their case? Maybe we should all think again. In The Climate Caper, written...
Building Nations from Diversity
Canadian and American Experience Compared
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. Garth Stevenson examines the origins...
Beyond IQ
Scientific Tools for Training Problem Solving, Intuition, Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and More
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Forget the IQ tests and tweak those parts of intelligence that matter most to real world success.
Sure, having a high IQ is great. But surprisingly, science shows that mental abilities not captured in IQ tests can have the most impact in the real world—attributes like creativity, willpower, emotional...
Fringe Science
Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Scientific experts explore the ideas behind the hit TV show.
Fringe Science delves into the science, science fiction, and pseudoscience of Fringe with a collection of essays on everything from alternate universes to time travel to genetically targeted toxins, as well as discussions on the show’s...
by Garth Wilcox
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
This practical guide to small business management gives readers the information needed to run a small business profitably. It also motivates and inspires readers to follow their dreams, achieve success, and earn their prosperity. This easy-to-read book tells how to start a small business and teaches concepts of management and it describes common character traits of successful people.