Kaplan: 716 books
by Laurie Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Every day in the U.S., about 10,000 dogs are diagnosed with cancer. About half of our dogs will have cancer in their lifetimes. Still, owners are always shocked and depressed to hear the diagnosis. Most owners know little or nothing about how to care for a dog with cancer.
Help Your Dog Fight...
Silent Service
Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before.
From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite...
Accessible Connecticut
A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and...
Bird Minds
Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional...
Gene Worship
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither...
by Gisela Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The tawny frogmouth is one of Australia’s most intriguing and endearing birds. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia’s leading authorities on animal behaviour and native birds, this second edition of Tawny Frogmouth presents an easy-to-read account of these unique nocturnal...
Australian Magpie
Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The Australian magpie is one of our nation’s most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal...
Sefer Yetzirah
The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Now in its 7th printing since republication in 1997, the Sefer Yetzirah has established itself as a primary source for all serious students of Kabbalah. Rabbi Kaplan's translation of this oldest and most mysterious of all Kabbalistic texts provides a unique perspective on the meditative and magical...
by Erin Aubry Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth tellers who took on racism and died in the...
Sailor
Battle Of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
I do not think that Malan could join a squadron without improving it, however good it was. Not by sword waving, but by a strength of mind and integrity that are at once recognizable and effective...he was the best pilot of the War' – Air Commodore Al Deere, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Malan was...
by Jeffrey Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
During August of 2001, life is carefree for Freddy Will. All that changed after 840 million dollars came his way, courtesy of an enormous bank error, along with witnessing the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
On September 11th, his mom is flying to Washington DC, Senator Clinton’s office....
Staying in Charge
Practical Plans for the End of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Practical, emotional, and spiritual guidance
The time may come when you or a loved one has to face a life-threatening illness; when you realize that you or your loved one may be dying. It's never easy to think about the last years of life, but being prepared can help you have your hopes and...
Sexual Justice
Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central...
by Noam Pianko, Akiba Lerner, Gregory Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into...