Gross: 466 books

Ted Gross is the author or editor of nineteen books and numerous articles on literature and education. His major academic publications include Academic Turmoil: The Reality and Promise of Open Education, Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, and The Heroic Ideal in American Literature. In 2005,...

Charles Balsam, age 12, aspires to be a trencherman, a person who eats foods outside the traditional food pyramid, like iron, aluminum, bricks and fire hydrants. One famous trencher ate a whole car. But Charles had bigger plans: he wanted to eat New York City, including Rockefeller Center, the Public Library, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Bon Appetit, Charles!

A novella of fiction - a narrative about a soldier, just returned from combat in the Middle East, who takes on a missing persons case for a newfound lady friend. He becomes swept up in a fast moving series of events. His case leads him into a hostage situation. Things go downhill from there.

Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism. They examine the movement's "Wedge Strategy," which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. Analyzing the...

Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were...

The Third Edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Dana Gross’s sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture. This latest...

Sand Castles: a collection of writings by Aline Dorothy Gross, who died of cancer, at age 24, in 1980. At that time she was a graduate student in biochemistry at Cornell. It includes diary entries, letters, reflections on contemporaries and culture, and poetry. Beginning at age 14, she was treated...

The superhero genre has exploded, with comic book heroes conquering the big screen and making massive inroads on the small. Whether well known brand names like Batman and Spider-Man, or lesser recognized characters such as Daredevil and Hellboy, the superheroes are here to stay.Superhero Confidential...

After the Wizard is a heartfelt, often humorous and always entertaining story about a 12-year-old girl named Elizabeth who lives in an orphanage in Kansas. Like millions of girls her age, she has read the beloved L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz countless times. But unlike other girls,...

Expert computer programmer John Farmer brings in his pet project to show it off, and an actual meeting occurs with Ozzy G. Osgood, his mega-perfectionist boss and–despite company policy against mingling–personal friend. Osgood has trouble understanding, but catches on when potential profits peek...

Le messianisme est une des idées force du judaïsme et l'une de ses contributions les plus originales à la culture universelle. Son influence sous des formes diverses, qu'elles soient religieuses ou idéologiques, ne cesse de s'exercer dans de nombreuses manifestations de la vie moderne.Cependant...

Books on grief often fall into two categories: memoir or science. In The Only Way Out is Through, Dr. Gail Gross combines the two in an inspiring story of loss alongside the analytical psychology that helped her find her own re-entry into life. The Only Way Out is Through tells the story of a mother’s...

Top jobs require advanced degrees, and the competition for these limited enrollment programs remains fierce. Undergraduates need top scores… and direction on how to achieve them. As a retired professor, David R. Gross knows the secrets to securing those grades. His Succeeding as a Student:...

Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf die dringendsten Fragen zum Thema Sucht. Was eigentlich ist das Süchtige an der Sucht? Gibt es Kriterien? Wie entsteht unabhängig vom Suchtmittel Sucht? Was ist problematisch an süchtigem Erleben und Verhalten? Woran hindert Sucht? Was sind Übergänge von normalem...