Spencer: 1574 books
Gardens Across America, East of the Mississippi
The American Horticulatural Society's Guide to American Public Gardens and Arboreta
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Gardening is one of America's most popular hobbies, and attendance at public gardens and arboreta continues to rise. Gardens Across America is a comprehensive two-volume guide to nearly 2,000 gardens. Each entry in this state-by-state guide contains such basic information as hours of operation and...
by Dale Spencer, Janet Rischbieter
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The town of Lake Ronkonkoma began as a small farming community. By the 1870s, the lake's reputation as a vacation destination was spreading among wealthy New York City residents. The completion of the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1911 made the lake accessible to early automobile enthusiasts, and over...
In the Crossfire
Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps?...
A History of England, Volume 3 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
This useful 1890 work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole’s masterpiece. The third volume begins with a discussion of England’s foreign policy and...
Consciously Female
How to Listen to Your Body and Your Soul for a Lifetime of Healthier Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this revolutionary new book, Dr. Tracy Gaudet, director of the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, shares her remarkable vision of a new way of looking at self and wellness, which will change the way women think about their bodies, their health, and their lives.
Through her own personal...
by A. J. M. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The mechanics of fluids and the mechanics of solids represent the two major areas of physics and applied mathematics that meet in continuum mechanics, a field that forms the foundation of civil and mechanical engineering. This unified approach to the teaching of fluid and solid mechanics focuses on...
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Awakening Visions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using...
A Thousand Years Of Yesterdays
A Strange Story Of Mystic Revelations
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Here is a book that will tell you about the real facts of reincarnation. It is a story of the Soul, and explains in detail how the Soul enters the body and how it leaves it, where it goes, and when it comes back to earth again, and why. The story is not just a piece of fiction, but a revelation of...
by Spencer Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book is your ultimate Confucius resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Confucius's whole picture right away. Get countless Confucius...
DIY
The Rise of Lo Fi Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
A well informed study that champions the unsung heroes and heroines of DIY distribution in art, music, literary zines and culture. This exploration of lo-fi culture traces the origin of the DIY ethic to the skiffle movement of the 1950s, mail art, Black Mountain poetry and Avant-Garde art in the 1950s,...
by Frances McNeil Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Dee and The Dog: Home at last is about a young girl, Dee, who loses her parents in a tragic automobile accident. The story reveals episodes of her life as she tries to adjust as an orphan. Her new family permits her to have a dog, a beautiful red Doberman, which she names Ignatius. Dee and Ignatius...
Race and Ethnicity
Culture, Identity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this completely revised and updated textbook is a critical guide to issues and theories of ‘race’ and ethnicity. It shows how these concepts came into being during colonial domination and how they became central – and until recently, unquestioned – aspects...
Knack Rock Climbing
A Beginner's Guide: From the Gym to the Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Rock climbing can be a difficult, dangerous sport. But it doesn’t have to be. Enter Knack Rock Climbing. An ideal primer for anyone who wants to climb—whether in a gym or outside, on the rocks—it presents the essentials as never before. Full-color, step-by-step photos and succinct instructions...
by Rae Spencer Jones, Sarah Cuttle
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The close-up photographs allow you to examine each plant in detail - so you will know your English from your Spanish bluebell - and because it is done by colour instead of name, it is much easier to navigate.
Full of fascinating information, including where and when you will find the flowers,...