Spencer: 1574 books

AN INTERPRETATION OF THE FAMILY Sec. 1. TAKING THE HOME IN RELIGIOUS TERMS The ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, irreverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life are signs of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes. Where...

**An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life.**In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the...

“A smart, haunting thriller with bass reverb and a pounding heart.” —Jayne Anne Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Lark and Termite Scott Spencer, the acclaimed author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper, reaffirms his storytelling mastery with Man in the Woods—a...

A naïve young woman faces a decision so important it will change her life forever in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott Spencer At the height of the Second World War, Caitlin Van Fleet moves to Washington, D.C., to become a “government girl” in the office of pro-German...

Emily Spencer's debut novel is a startling collection of fictional suicide notes, each one telling a story of a life that has run its course and has nowhere else to go. Inside these pages, we find a soldier, an artist, a bi-polar young woman and a terrorist among others.At turns disturbing,...

When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical...

Praise for the Third Edition “Researchers of any kind of extremal combinatorics or theoretical computer science will welcome the new edition of this book.” - MAA Reviews Maintaining a standard of excellence that establishes The Probabilistic Method as the leading reference on probabilistic...

Though the word ‘vegetarianism’ was not coined until the mid-nineteenth century, the vegetarian diet has been around as long as man has. Vegetarians have included in their number: heretics, humanists, Hindus, Christian fundamentalists, radicals, agnostics, philosophers, founders of religion and...

Beware! You may lose your sensibility. Look in the eyes of the three women. When you gather enough courage, take a deep breath...and board this crudely carved tuc`tuc`. Might it be the gateway to unfold mysterious life forms? The river will charm you. Allow untold beauty, of this rain forest flora,...

Ever struggled to find the right words to talk about the threat of pornography with your kids? Too many of us avoid the subject, depending on simple technology filters to protect them. Yet children at very early ages are under attack and at risk to fall prey to pornography addiction. As parents, we...

Esta es la esperada secuela a “¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso?”. Una vez más, con su característico estilo simple y profundo, Spencer Johnson continúa la historia de Hem y Haw, los dos hombrecitos encerrados en un laberinto a los que les han movido el queso de lugar. En “Fuera del laberinto”...

In Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically, Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer define and demystify the essence of creative thinking, and offer action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners. Where once...

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Herbert Spencer, english philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist (1820-1903) This ebook presents «Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects», from Herbert Spencer. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

In this book, Katherine Spencer examines Navaho cultural values by studying a specific subset of Navaho mythology: chantway myths, part of ceremonies performed to cure illness. She begins with a summary of the general plot construction of chantway myths and the value themes presented in these plots.,...