Jim: 5732 books
by Jim Plautz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is a story about a courageous woman who is Fighting Back against long odds. On 3/5/11 Rosann Plautz underwent emergency brain surgery. A nonsmoker, she had lung cancer that had already spread to the brain. The operation left her weak and legally blind, 900 miles from home Doctors told her she...
Inside Alcatraz
My Time on the Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.
Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping...
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest
The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Roswell was only the beginning! An in-depth look at the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, the world's most sensational and compelling series of UFO encounters.
In 1980, a UFO was tracked on military radar in Rendlesham Forest, England. It landed near two of the most strategically important military...
Higgs:The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'
The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Has the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finished the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort?The...
The Quantum Story:A history in 40 moments
A history in 40 moments
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge...
by Jim Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
In Dead Weird, Jim Hewitson is let loose on the ultimate taboo and finds that death can be fun for all the family, a good day out or the perfect excuse for a booze up or a fight. Executions, grizzly murders, raising the dead, battlefield carnage, clean-in-between-the-sheets death, traditions, proverbs,...
Partners 4 Life
The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Early in 2008, doing ordinary, mundane things like tying his shoes and walking up steps literally took author Jim Uhrigs breath away. He had trouble breathing, and it seemed as though he could never catch his breath. That was the beginning of a long journey for Uhrig, who shares his story in Partners...
Treat Your Own Knees
Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Jim Johnson has researched hundreds of scientific journal articles to find and test the simplest most effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. In this compact and accessible book, he shows readers exactly how to improve and maintain the functioning of their knees by enhancing the four crucial...
by Jim Ottaviani
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker.
In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
Medicinal Plants of North America
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This exquisitely detailed full-color field guide, by biologist and herbal and medical plant expert Jim Meuninck, provides identification, practical information, and skills for the location of and use of medicinal plants. The pages of this book re-connect us to our roots and the knowledge that medicinal...
by Jim Fatheree
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Only a few years ago it was believed almost impossible for a newcomer to the saltwater aquarium hobby - even someone with long experience in the freshwater aquarium hobby to be able to set up an aquarium designed to house not only fish but also the other animals that make the worlds coral reefs as vibrantly...
The Myeloma Survival Guide
Essential Advice for Patients and Their Loved Ones
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The definitive guide to living a longer, fuller life with myeloma
The Myeloma Survival Guide makes sense of the difficult questions myeloma patients face, dealing with every aspect of life after diagnosis, from creating a wellness team to navigating treatment options to building a financial...
The Ethics of What We Eat
Why Our Food Choices Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it...
The Read-Aloud Handbook
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
** A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated**
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved...