Snyder: 939 books
by Theresa Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
What would you do if you were adopted by a dragon? When ten-year-old orphan James nearly drowns in a bog, he finds himself rescued by Farloft, a centuries old dragon with a glittering collection of treasures and an even richer collection of stories. But, dragons and boys are not meant to live together...
by Kathlynn Northrup-Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Trees teach us to stand tall, be strong, grow and be flexible, stay connected to our roots yet adapt to the environment. Most of all, trees teach us about beauty and giving. Kathlynn Northrup-Snyder tells the secrets of trees to all who open this book. Each page provides an opportunity for reflection....
Building a Public Judaism
Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Coenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish space was a marker of acculturation but not full acceptance, she argues. The new edifices, even if spectacular, revealed the limits of Jewish integration.
Power and Progress
International Politics in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Jack Snyder is a leading American international relations scholar with an international reputation for his research on IR theory and US Foreign policy. This book collects many of his most important essays into a single volume.
Exploring a liberal realist theory of international politics, the...
And Justice for All
The Improbable Story of Virginia Snyder, Investigative Reporter and Private Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Throughout my life, I have probed more than one hundred homicides, including fifteen death-row cases, whereby I helped save six men from execution. My cases have included a retired teacher whose dismembered body was hidden in a trunk; a pedophile who killed a sixteen-year-old and got away with murder...
by Stephen Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes - how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news is that...
The Literacy Wars
Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Do we have a literacy crisis?
Fierce debates in the media over how to teach children to read and write have reached new heights in recent years. The intensity of the debates is not surprising as literacy education matters to everyone, but there is collateral damage. Public confidence in literacy...
Myths of Empire
Domestic Politics and International Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes...
by Allan A Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Do all champions share some fundamental characteristic that ensures success? What gives a great athlete, artist or scientist the ability to achieve extraordinary things? Is it sheer passion for what they do? Strength acquired through adversity? Can champions be crafted, or do they simply emerge through...
by SR Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Parents tend to believe that children learn to read with their eyes. Reading is actually taught by making use of listening skills. Parents can lay down a foundation for reading by talking with their babies, reading books to them as they grow and reading books on various subjects as it can help increase...
Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels
Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
A governor who saw ghosts, an incorrigible horse thief, a husband and wife who each stood over seven feet tall, an American Indian chief who defied forced removal, and the first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court: these are just some of the remarkable characters whose lives influenced...
W Stands for Women
How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
by Theda Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Success depends on innovative planning, but brainstorming for new ideas takes valuable time. In one quick read you can get dynamic, creative, and practical ideas that can work for you and your practice. Women Rainmakers Best Marketing Tips, Third Edition, is the updated collection of easy-to-read helpful...