Russell: 3438 books
Special Providence
American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America."--Otto von Bismarck
America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic interests,...
by Russell Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
i realized that the main stream media isn't giving the full picture of what is happening in syria. so i went there and met as many people as possible, from defected generals and senior members of the rebel opposition, including members of jabhat al nusra. i'm particularly interested in the...
My Mysterious Son
A Life-Changing Passage between Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a “normal” life? That’s the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years...
The Managed Heart
Commercialization of Human Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from...
Too Big to Succeed
Profiteering in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Medicine in the United States is big business. We spend 50 percent more on health care per capita than other developed countries, but a multitude of measures indicate that we are not getting health-care value for our money. In Too Big to Succeed, author Dr. Russell J. Andrews details why health care...
by Toby Russell
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
This book covers the tell tale signs of alcohol addiction whether it be in yourself or others near or dear to you, and then suggests how by seeking the correct help & support sufferers can combat the addiction returning to a normal and un- addicted life over time.
Alcohol addiction builds...
An Obsession With Butterflies
Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
by Russell Stannard
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier; travel fast enough and you could...
Dragon Bone Hill
An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in...
by ROBERT RUSSELL MARQUARDT
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Every Boy Needs a Dad
The author has stepped into his own past to reflect upon how a youthful mind begins wondering about life. Who can a son turn to? Dad...who is put on the spot and finds his authority challenged by thoughts and expressions of his son's closest friend and his father, and...
Extended Heredity
A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease
For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection....
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)
When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything."...
Southern Baptist Identity
An Evangelical Denomination Faces the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
What was once a small, southern, predominantly white denomination has become America's largest evangelical denomination. Yet with the Southern Baptist Convention's growth have come the challenges of increasing fragmentation, theological controversy, and sweeping cultural change. These challenges have...
by M. Russell Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
"Suicide is a sin-a very grievous one, yet the Lord will not judge the person who commits that sin strictly by the act itself. The Lord will look at that person's circumstances and the degree of his accountability at the time of the act." Elder M. Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve...