Gregory: 2919 books

Gregory Tsinker brings his extensive knowledge of structural engineering and geotechnical design to his translation of George E. Lazebnik's work on soil-structure interaction. Monitoring of Soil-Structure Interaction is aimed at professional geotechnical and foundation engineers who deal with soil-foundation...

In Science, Bread, and Circuses, Gregory Schrempp brings a folkloristic viewpoint to the topic of popular science, calling attention to the persistence of folkloric form, idiom, and worldview within the increasingly important dimension of popular consciousness defined by the impact of science. Schrempp...

The outrageous autobiographical account of two vagabond 20-somethings who shucked life to the cob and headed west in search of whatever godforsaken glory befell them. This is a tale rife with the hills and swales of reckless abandon. A real piss in the wind on a blustery day. Twisted, beautiful, disjointed...

Paige is in a brutal and unforgiving marriage until she crosses paths with another man who offers her a deal. The temtation is strong but the rules for the deal can cause more pain and hurt than staying in the bad marriage that she is already in. What does she decide, does she find...

"Given the sheer scale of the topic under consideration here, Professor Gregory does well to condense it into bite-size pieces for the reader. I recommend this text to all undergraduate students of physical geography and earth sciences, particularly to those in their first and second years......

'A skilful, confident tale of modern Greece ... brilliantly successful ... There is indeed no fault to find with this book.' - David Williams, Guardian 'Mr. King is masterly ... he is exact, moving and funny ... a very enjoyable book.' - Angus Wilson, The Observer 'Constructed with...

A "master of the lyric poem" (Paris Review) at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love. In this moving, playful, and deeply philosophical volume, Gregory Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same...

Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central arguments in Cassirer’s first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Gregory Moss demonstrates both how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form and how he borrows the concept of the “concrete universal” from...

Eliot Gregory was born on October 13, 1854 in New York, New York. She was an artist and an author.

Gold Medal Winner in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Pete McFadden refuses to question his success when his online spoof of astrology unintentionally turns him into a trendy self-help guru. But when his creation becomes the plaything of a manipulative cult leader and a ruthless...

Zarmageddon - Urban Survival Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse-First off, by reading this guide, you’re already fighting the battle against zombies. Knowledge is power and we plan to educate your brain, not eat it.This is a guide and is to be used as such. I’m going to be honest and say...

Written as a screenplay, this real life story follows a young boy named Alfred from his early life in Hungary during the rise of the German war machine. First his father is taken in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. Then he, his brothers, and his mother are sent to a ghetto and then...

In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.

Near-death experiences are known around the world and throughout human history. They are sometimes reported by individuals who have revived from a period of clinical death or near-death and they typically feature sensations of leaving the body, entering and emerging from darkness, meeting deceased...