H Thomas: 629 books

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...

Trois bâtards. Une légende. Robin Loxley, Petit-Jean et Will Scarlett sont tous les trois nés bâtards. À une époque où un tel poids du destin se fait lourdement sentir, ils vont chacun voir cette injustice grandir au plus profond de leur être. Ils vont devenir des outlaws, des hors-la-loi...

A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity...

The Handbook of Stress and the Brain focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain, and in turn, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges...

Le 10 février 1763, le traité de Versailles cédait le Canada à l'Angleterre, et le drapeau français retraversait les mers sous la garde des braves qui l'avaient si noblement défendu, et qui, abandonnés, décimés, écrasés par le nombre, n'avaient pas voulu quitter le sol qu'ils avaient illustré...

Stell dir vor, du sollst in 500 Wörtern von Kunst erzählen. Oder von Natur. Vielleicht ist dein Thema auch Reise. Oder liegt dir Kirche näher? 18 Lese-Guerillas haben sich der Herausforderung gestellt und Kürzest-Geschichten verfasst, die sie wie jedes Jahr am Buchmessenfreitag in Leipzig vortragen...

Katzen auf geheimer Mission, Hitlerklone und die Area 51. Aleister Crowley, Organraub und der Slenderman. Urbane Legenden und Verschwörungstheorien werden erzählt, hinterfragt, geglaubt – und manchmal verändert. Wie lautet die Wahrheit und welche Geschichten werden nur als solche verkauft? Keilschrifttafeln...

In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had...

While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...

This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the...

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe fluctuations in America’s involvement or non-involvement overseas. In addition to its basic thesis,...

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

The role of lay ecclesial ministers—professionally prepared laity who serve in leadership roles—is becoming critically more important in the life of the Catholic church. In Lay Ecclesial Ministry, theologians and pastoral leaders from diverse disciplines provide a deeper understanding, envision...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...