L Gordon: 212 books
Out of Montana
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
When Gordon Noel was five years old he came home from school to find that his father had left his mother for another woman. There were no roadmaps for divorced kids in 1940s Montana, and for the next thirteen years, Noel seldom saw his father despite living in the same town. In Out of Montana, Noel...
The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts
Union Soldiers, Prisoners, Spies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty "Special Scouts" under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The RPG-series of weapons is the most widely used family of lightweight antitank weapons in the world today. RPGs have been used not only against their intended targets, but against personnel, fortifications, buildings, soft-skin vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft. Lightweight, relatively compact,...
Positive Results
Making the Best Decisions When You're at High Risk for Breast or Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains...
Prayer, Meditation, and Spiritual Trial
Luther's Account of Life in the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Quite often, theology and spirituality are separated, pursued without reference to the other—a classic example of the disjunction between head and heart. But in Luther we find a profound theologian exhibiting a profound spirituality, one that still speaks to us today. Luther sets out three rules...
by Gordon L. Fain
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Gordon Fain’s Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons, Second Edition is intended for anyone who seeks to understand nerve cell function: undergraduate and graduate students in neuroscience, students of bioengineering and cognitive science, and practicing neuroscientists who want to deepen their knowledge of recent discoveries.
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Neal Salisbury, Rosalind J. Beiler, Robert J. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating...
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work
A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1997
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Perfectionism
A Relational Approach to Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Grounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in psychotherapy. The authors describe how perfectionistic tendencies--rooted in early relational and developmental...
Social Media
Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Social Media: Culture and Identity examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. New media scholars— both national and international— have posited thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication that are impacted by...
Reality Television
Oddities of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because...