Neil: 3512 books
by Connie Neil
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Threatened for the second time after fifty years of freedom with forced electroshock, I wrote my 57,361-word non-fiction ‘AFTERSHOCK’ on psychiatry’s expanding portals that include elder restraint and the DSM inroads that characterize as mental illness our natural life events.
This is my experience...
Kent Urban Legends
The Phantom Hitchhiker and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What unsettling vision startled a truck driver on Detling Hill one snowy night? What is a wallaby doing on the motorway? And is there really a leaf man that resides in Spinney Woods? Urban legends are the funny and frightening and folklore people share today. Just like the early folk tales that came...
The Supreme Court of Florida
A Journey toward Justice, 1972-1987
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
“A fascinating judicial study. The importance of the modern high court’s docket is so thoroughly and expertly chronicled in this book: reapportionment, courtroom cameras, personal injury, family law, environmental law, capital punishment, criminal justice, and equal justice under law.”—Thomas...
by Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and...
by Neil Kent
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish...
Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy
Reading and Writing in African and Caribbean Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Examining images of literacy in African and West Indian novels, Neil ten Kortenaar looks at how postcolonial authors have thought about the act of writing itself. Writing arrived in many parts of Africa as part of colonization in the twentieth century, and with it a whole world of book-learning and...
The Faces of Terrorism
Social and Psychological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it, who are...
by Neil Clarke, E. Lily Yu, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month they bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our December issue contains:
Original Fiction by E. Lily Yu ("Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel"),...
by Neil Short
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The East Wall was where the final battles for the stricken Third Reich were fought, amid scenes of utter carnage. Beginning life at the end of World War I, the wall became a pet project of Adolf Hitler's, whose ascent to power saw building work accelerated, with plans for a grand, 'Maginot-style'...
Believing and Its Tensions
A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
An intimate and candid examination of the changing nature of belief and where it can lead us—from the life experience of one of Judaism's leading thinkers.
For over five decades, Rabbi Neil Gillman has helped people think through the most challenging questions at the heart of being a believing...
Starting Statistics
A Short, Clear Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Statistics: A Short, Clear Guide is an accessible, humorous and easy introduction to statistics for social science students.
In this refreshing book, experienced author and academic Neil Burdess shows that statistics are not the result of some mysterious "black magic", but rather...
Uncommon Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Southern Alberta and Southeastern BC
Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Southern Alberta and Southeastern BC
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Uncommon Beauty explores the wildflowers and flowering shrubs of a large area including Jasper down to Cranston, over to Glacier National Park in Montana, and up to Lethbridge and Edmonton. Extensively researched by author and outdoors enthusiast Neil L. Jennings, this guide will inform and intrigue...
by Neil L Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
STONEHENGE MATHEMATICS is about numbers and counting, lines triangles circles and ovals their use by the sages of Britain and Ireland five thousand years ago. They designed ancient monuments with ability and care, knowing full well the communitys belief in their skills and knowledge. Arithmetic and...
by Neil Bartlett, Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Believe me, no civilised man ever regrets a pleasure...
As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery. With its glittering dialogue, provocative imagery...