Kaplan: 716 books
Hidden Harmonies
The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It
sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression is a gateway
into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of
exploration in the company of two inspired guides, acclaimed authors
Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and...
Does Santa Exist?
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa—from a co–executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Emmy award–winning comedy writer and philosophy scholar Eric Kaplan brilliantly turns a search for the truth about Santa into a laugh-out-loud metaphysical romp. Surveying...
Biblical Psychotherapy
Reclaiming Scriptural Narratives for Positive Psychology and Suicide Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Biblical Psychotherapy, Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a new approach to suicide prevention based on biblical narratives that is designed to overcome the suicidogenic patterns in Greek and Roman stories implicit in modern mental health. More than sixteen suicides and self-mutilations emerge...
De wraak van de geografie
wat de wereldkaart ons voorspelt over komende conflictenen het gevecht tegen het onvermijdelijke
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 17, 2012
'Een voortreffelijk waarnemer en een begenadigd schrijver.' - NRC Handelsblad
Niet het individu maar de geografie bepaalt de loop van de geschiedenis. Klimaten, landgrenzen en natuurlijke verschijnselen voorspellen grotendeels de toekomst. In De wraak van de geografie biedt Kaplan ons een geheel...
Navigating Ethnicity
Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent...
Harold Stassen
Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual...
Motherhood and Representation
The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations...
Het Aziatische kruitvat
het einde van de stabiliteit in de grote oceaan
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 9, 2014
De strijd om de Grote Oceaan
In de 20ste eeuw gingen de oorlogen en diplomatieke conflicten over landsgrenzen en landstreken. In de 21ste eeuw draait het om de macht op het water.
Robert Kaplan richt ditmaal zijn scherpe oog en analyses op het gebied rond de Zuid-Chinese zee. Deze zee is...
Naval Air
Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and interest was stirring in naval circles in a greater aeronautical capacity for the service. Britain's tradition of projecting a global reach through her sea...
The Science of Monsters
The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
We all know “there’s no such thing as monsters,” but our imaginations tell us otherwise. From the mythical beasts of ancient Greece to the hormonal vampires of the Twilight saga, monsters have captivated us for millennia. Matt Kaplan, a noted science journalist and monster-myth enthusiast, employs...
Neither Cargo nor Cult
Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers. British officials called the movement the Tuka cult, imagining it as a contagious superstition that had to be stopped. Navosavakadua and many of...
by Elouise Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Dyslexia: a parent’s travel guide by Elouise Kaplan gives an understanding of what dyslexia is. It identifies the main challenges faced by dyslexic children and their parents as the child moves through the education system. The guide provides parents with a wealth of information about how they can help their child to overcome difficulties and to succeed.
Medical Murder
Disturbing cases of doctors who kill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In January 2000, world-wide headlines announced that Dr Harold Shipman, an English GP, had been found guilty of murdering fifteen of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor accused of going too far in providing comfort to dying elderly patients. This was not...
Behind the Wire
Allied Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two, to be incarcerated 'behind the wire' in enemy camps. With...