Gregory: 2919 books

What skills will matter most for work, business and life in the future? Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? How can you future proof yourself, your organisation and your kids? In this ground-breaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan...

No organization can survive without iconoclasts -- innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Though indispensable, true iconoclasts are few and far between. In Iconoclast, neuroscientist Gregory Berns explains why. He...

Here is Rotten Rhymes blundering in to blighten up your day! These poems have been inspired by nursery rhymes, and by writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Mervyn Peake (but don't blame them!). This playful collection also invokes a bit of the golden age of Mad Magazine and Harvard...

The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period...

A classic treatise on excellence in teaching for over 100 years, John Milton Gregory's The Seven Laws of Teaching continues to make a great impact on teachers. It explores seven basic principles of education teachers can use to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, including...

Four short stories of murder, revenge and being caught in the middle of a horrible situation. You will have to ask yourself, 'What would I do in that situation'. Sometimes people can be cruel, and have a complete disregard for human life. These stories graphically reflect that, with shocking action,...

A student anthropologist travels from the security of her quiet life in Indiana to the weird and debauched town of Alexandria, Alabama heavily colored by alcohol, sex, insanity and elements of the comically supernatural.

Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North...

The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the centre of the conflict, even today the sovereignty...

You can read Cagliostro Logodynamics; under the ancient Greek Pythagorean Canon.

A Vietnam vet returns home to an unhappy wife and after she leaves him he elects to live in the elements again, under a bridge. He had become a very rich man but still remained under the bridge with an old dog. When a stranger comes along his whole world changes and he ends up in jail charged with...

A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape. This biography of 97-year-old Richard Seaman, who grew up in Kissimmee Park, Florida, relies on oral history and folklore research to define the place of musicianship and storytelling in the state's history from one artist's...

    With the birth of a child begins what every responsible parent would refer to as a twenty-year project. Caring for a child or children until it reaches adulthood is one of the most difficult but rewarding task any person could undertake. It is impossible to calculate all the time, money and...

Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health...