Joshua: 1696 books
by T. Berry Brazelton, Joshua Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
World renowned pediatricians T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua Sparrow see discipline as a parent’s gift to a child. By following the doctors’ unique approach, which emphasizes teaching over punishment, parents will find effective solutions for common behavior problems. Not only will parents feel...
The Power of Sound
How to Be Healthy and Productive Using Music and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Customize your sound environment for a better quality of life
• Shows how to use music and sound to reduce stress, enhance learning, and improve performance
• Provides detailed guidelines for musicians and health care professionals
• Includes a new 75-minute CD of psychoacoustically...
Grains of Truth
Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk...
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume II
The Private and Social Costs of the Abuse of Alcohol and Their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol’s status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally accepted in Western countries and...
Creating Kashubia
History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In recent years, over one million Canadians have claimed Polish heritage - a significant population increase since the first group of Poles came from Prussian-occupied Poland and settled in Wilno, Ontario, west of Ottawa in 1858. For over a century, descendants from this community thought of themselves...
by Joshua Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The tale of King Arthur and his knights has been told and retold countless times over a thousand years. According to legend, the king’s tomb is marked by the cryptic inscription, “Here lies Arthur, the Once and Future King.” And although this epithet is meant to signify the promise of Arthur’s...
Invisible Countries
Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of “cartographical stasis”
What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating’s...
by Joshua Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
1999: Amidst Yosemites grandeur, a murderer is on the loose. Before he is apprehended, four people lay dead - one decapitated. Here award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer digs into Yosemites past to uncover the almost forgotten story of the killers cruel rampage, exploring the stark contrast between natures beauty and mans brutality.
A Season in Bethlehem
Unholy War in a Sacred Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2003
*Newsweek'*s Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple Mount. Sharon's trip ignited the worst violence the Middle East had seen in decades. Overnight, the...
White Ethnic New York
Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive...
Winning the War on War
The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.
Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t...
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789
The Legacy for Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1991
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in...
Through a Dog's Ear
Using Sound to Improve the Health and Behavior of Your Canine Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
You know that your dog's hearing is very sensitive, but did you know that you could create an environment of sound to improve the health and well-being of your canine companion? Now, psychoacoustic expert Joshua Leeds and veterinary neurologist Susan Wagner show you how with Through a Dog's Ear.
Using...
Homegrown Marijuana
Create a Hydroponic Growing System in Your Own Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Is growing marijuana permitted where you live? A hydroponic system is your homegrown solution. With marijuana laws changing rapidly, millions of gardeners with an interest in growing Cannabis can finally step out of their curtained basements and raise this unique and ancient plant without worry and...