Oliver: 3228 books

A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha’s Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how Siddhartha...

Why is it that people give up on their self-help? Oliver McCann shows how spiritual quests often miss out the tough-mindedness that the highest performers have behind their agreeable profile. This first book in the series about the 1% concentrates on careers in an age of austerity, cuts, and economic...

In 1994, Marcia Oliver MSPT, found a heartwarming niche she loved and that loved her back . . . until she began to understand that some unethical physical therapists where cheating their home health patients out of the time and treatment that Medicare was paying for! Home care physical therapy pay...

This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Curwood's romantic novel "The Danger Trail" sees Chicago engineer Jack Howland sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands to establish a train route through...

This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Hunted Woman" is an adventurous story of a woman in peril. James Oliver 'Jim' Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. He...

Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following: Stardust Let Me Live in a House Field Expedient Transformer If Now You Grieve a Little Anachronism North Wind Pilgrimage The Wind Blows Free Of Course Rite of Passage Didn't He Ramble? Second...

Little Bobtail by Oliver Optic "Little Bobtail" is the first volume of the Yacht Club Series, each book of which will contain an entirely independent story, with a hero of its own, and having no necessary connection with any other story. The author hopes that this plan will commend...

The Yacht Club by Oliver Optic "The Yacht Club" is the second volume of the Yacht Club Series, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is an independent story. The hero has not before appeared, though some of the characters of "Little Bobtail" take part in the...

On a whim, Lady Livia Aurelia, a wealthy widow in a decadent, crumbling empire, saves Eric, a foreign slave, from certain death in the arena. After helping him recover from his harrowing captivity, they both learn that what draws them together is greater than what either of them expected. Awakening...

WOODVILLE STORIES SERIES by OLIVER OPTIC (William Taylor Adams) This Series contains 2 existing novels: Work and Win Haste and Waste "Though we are not so young as we once were, we relished these stories almost as much as the boys and girls for whom they were...

In Womanizing Nietzsche, Kelly Oliver uses an analysis of the position of woman in Nietzsche's texts to open onto the larger question of philosophy's relation to the feminine and the maternal. Offering readings from Nietzsche, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Freud and Lacan, Oliver builds an innovative...

Outward Bound by Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams) Outward Bound is the first volume of "A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands," and contains the voyage of the Academy Ship "Young America" across the Atlantic. The origin and progress of this aquatic institution...

Family Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional...

This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Honor of the Big Snows" explores an unseen force that brings young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac...