Naomi: 836 books
No Ordinary View
A Season of Faith and Mission in the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
2009 Australian Christian Book of the Year Winner
"The Himalayan view from our back porch was normally breathtaking but that day I sat there and wondered. Ten years of civil war, a deteriorating health system, an economic crisis and a political stalemate. It was a background of hopelessness...
Narrating Karma and Rebirth
Buddhist and Jain Multi-Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life...
Dealing With Difficult People In A Week
How To Deal With Difficult People In Seven Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The ability to deal with difficult people is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Brian Salter and Naomi Langford-Wood, leading experts on dealing with difficult people as both coaches and practitioners, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know...
by Scott A. Fowler, Abdelhamid Mellouk, Naomi Yamada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Resource allocation and power optimization is a new challenge in multimedia services in cellular communication systems. To provide a better end-user experience, the fourth generation (4G) standard Long Term Evolution/Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-Advanced) has been developed for high-bandwidth...
Unequal Time
Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Life is unpredictable. Control over one’s time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredictability, keeping a job, and raising a family. But the ability to control one’s time, much like one’s income, is determined to a significant degree by both gender and class. In Unequal Time, sociologists...
Beyond the Great Wall
Recipes and Travels in the Other China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
WINNER OF THE 2009 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE 2009 IACP BEST INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARD
A bold and eye-opening new cookbook with magnificent photos and unforgettable stories.
In the West, when we think about food in China, what usually...
by Neil Clarke, Naomi Kritzer, Xia Jia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our November 2015 issue (#110) contains:
Original Fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("So Much Cooking"),...
by Naomi Guttman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis,"...
by Edith Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Nisi Shawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a dragon’s hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with everything on the line? These seventeen stories will delight and entertain...
Only Muslim
Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints,...
Applicative Justice
A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal,...
The Validation Breakthrough, Third Edition
Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Join the 10,000+ agencies in over 16 countries that are successfully implementing the Validation method in their organizations and start changing how you care for individuals with dementia today! Since its introduction in 1989, Validation has been an effective method of communication that can alleviate...
by Neil Clarke, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette...
Gumshoes Redux
14 Novels Of Mystery, Crime, And Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Welcome to the Redux version of Gumshoes with two new exciting novels added.
In the world of mystery fiction there are different types of detectives. Amateur sleuths, women and men, willing to put themselves on the line to solve a crime or even a murder, police detectives working the case following...