Paul Jones: 107 books
Word Drops
A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for “stumbling block” and originally described a trap for a wild animal? In nineteenth-century...
by Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Things Mary doesn’t want to fall into: the river, high school, her mother’s life.
Things Mary does kind of want to fall into: love, the sky.
This is the story of a girl who sees a boy float away one fine day. This is the story of the girl who reaches up for that boy with her hand...
by F. Scott Scribner, Roseanne Giannini Quinn, Christopher Adamo
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The phrase "beat generation" -- introduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948 -- characterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, and activists created an inimitably American cultural phenomenon that would have a global...
Think Biblically! (Trade Paper): Recovering a Christian Worldview
Recovering a Christian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...
Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors
Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma After Natural Disasters, War and Other Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.
Artists and therapists behind group art projects worldwide reveal how art enables people to come together, find their voices and...
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
by Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers tackle problems and issues with putting. For putting to be most effective, a golfer’s action needs to be as smooth and unconscious as possible. Sections include what to do when:…you have a three-foot putt, but...
by Adam Taylor, Justin Donhauser, Franklin Allaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
American auteur Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams's genius for creating densely plotted scripts has won him broad commercial and critical success in TV shows such as Felicity (1998--2002), Emmy-nominated Alias (2001--2006), Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Lost (2004--2010), and the critically acclaimed...
Understanding Sports Coaching
The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully...
by Jamie Barker, Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
What is single-case research?
How can single-case methods be used within sport and exercise?
Single-case research is a powerful method for examining change in outcome variables such as behaviour, performance and psychological constructs, and for assessing the efficacy of interventions. It has innumerable...
by Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to get golfers practising more effectively on the range, before taking those improvements onto the course and into competition.Many golfers practise poorly on the range/putting green. Fact. They whack a bucket of balls for an hour...
by Paul McCarthy, Marc Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers overcome their nerves and boost their concentration levels. Through the examination of commonly experienced scenarios, readers will soon be playing better, more effective golf. Sections include what to do when:…you...
by Brenton Paul; Edwards-Jones Gareth; Jensen Michael Friis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
This report addresses carbon labeling schemes, a high-profile issue and one that has important economic implications for developing countries. Carbon accounting and labeling instruments are designed to present information on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from supply chains. These instruments have become...
How AIDS Ends
An Anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When the history of HIV/AIDS is written, what will the final chapter look like? How AIDS Ends poses this question to 15 visionaries. We asked them to write history before it happens. The result is this first-of-its-kind anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Each author has been deeply touched...