John T : 501 books
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
Visible Learning for Science, Grades K-12
What Works Best to Optimize Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Inquiry, laboratory, project-based learning, discovery learning—which science instructional approach is most effective? In Visible Learning for Science, the authors reveal that it’s not which strategy, but when, and plot a vital K-12 framework for choosing the right approach at the right time,...
by John T. Wixted, John Serences
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
II. Sensation, Perception & Attention: John Serences (Volume Editor)
(Topics covered include taste; visual object recognition; touch; depth perception; motor control; perceptual learning; the interface theory of perception; vestibular, proprioceptive, and haptic contributions to spatial orientation;...
Flying Through Midnight
A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land....
Southern Belly
A Food Lover's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald), reveals a South hidden in plain sight, where restaurants boast family pedigrees and serve supremely local specialties found nowhere else. From backdoor home kitchens to cinder-block cafés, he introduces you to cooks who have...
The Potlikker Papers
A Food History of the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**“The one food book you must read this year."
*—Southern Living
One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food*
A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary...
by Robert Zaretsky, John T. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
"An Almost Theatrical Innocence"
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
"Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early...
by John T. Frost
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of History of the State of California - From the Period of the Conquest by Spain to her Occupation - by the United States of America. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back...
Battlefield Surgeon
Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912--1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in...
by John T. Syrtash
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
A Calendar of Northern Fables is a nostalgic collection of short stories about Jewish immigrants who settled in North America after the War. It’s also about their children and grandchildren. Based in Toronto, Canada the stories follow many of the Jewish Holidays and poke gentle fun at the lifestyle,...
Sales Forecasting Management
A Demand Management Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Incorporating 25 years of sales forecasting management research with more than 400 companies, Sales Forecasting Management, Second Edition is the first text to truly integrate the theory and practice of sales forecasting management. This research includes the personal experiences of John T. Mentzer...
Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
Twelve Drivers of Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Author of the bestselling text Supply Chain Management, John T. Mentzer's companion book Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: Twelve Drivers of Competitive Advantage has been developed as a supplemental text for any course dealing with strategy and supply chains. Written in an entertaining, accessible...
by John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it.
John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure,...