J Snyder: 264 books
Of Time and Memory
My Parents' Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell him the story of the lovely girl...
The Cliff Walk
A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, and what seemed like a secure middle-class future. But then Snyder lost his chance at tenure -- and, all of a sudden, he was out of a job.
The...
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—Newsweek
The* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell,...
Skateboarding LA
Inside Professional Street Skateboarding
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding
On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a “heel flip” over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in front of the Biltmore Hotel. A staff member of the...
by Laura J. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through...
by Don J. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
When I looked up again, Mr. Halworth's red cap was gone. I wondered if his daughter had watched him disappear, and I turned to look at her. It took a little time for me to see that she was staring at her shoes. They were shiny shoes, and she was holding them up off the floor. One had slipped off her...
Winter Dreams
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A moving novel about love, loss, and an extraordinary lifelong passion for golf, by the acclaimed author of The Cliff Walk and Fallen Angel.
Ross Lansdale never knew his mother and father and grew up at St. Luke's Orphanage for Boys in the 1950s. The one person who took an interest in him was...
by Jonathan J Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Lii Wena was a princess.
Preferring to learn swordsmanship over sewing and dreading the day that her father would use her as a bargaining chip. One would think that the only thing she had to worry about was which crotchety old Baron she'd wind up a wife to. That all changed when Toxin of the...
Walking with Jack
A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don would walk beside...
Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions
Assessing and Treating Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
With fully integrated DSM-5 criteria and current CACREP standards, Case Conceptualization and Effective Interventions by Lynn Zubernis and Matthew Snyder examines case conceptualization and effective treatments across the most common disorders encountered in counseling. The comprehensive approach...
by H. Randolph Bailey, MD, Richard P. Billingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Colorectal Surgery equips you to overcome the clinical challenges you face in this area of surgery. Written for the general surgeon who is called upon to manage diseases and disorders of the large bowel, rectum, and anus, this reference provides advanced, expert guidance on how to avoid complications...
Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
From Learning Theory to College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Praise for Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
"The world of today's learners is a multimode, information-intensive universe of interactive bursts and virtual exchanges, yet our teaching methods retain the outdated characteristics of last generation's study-and-drill approach. New...
by Cassandra J. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Get Right Church and Lets Go Home is a book birthed from the spirit of God. Just imagine sitting at the foot of the throne with pen and paper and God telling you why He is concerned for the body of Christ. Just imagine God allowing you to feel His emotions for His people. If you can just picture the...
The Winter Travelers
A Christmas Fable
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
It has been a hard year in New York City for princes and for beggars; and twenty-eight year old Charlie Andrews, a Wall Street profiteer, believes he has lost everything that matters in the world when he steps out onto the window ledge of the twenty-second floor of The Waldorf Hotel on a cold evening...