Turner Publishing Company: 2181 books
Community Building: What Makes It Work
A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1997
This practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn't) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won't find another single report that pulls out common lessons from across community building initiatives about...
The Mother of All Parenting Books
The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy Child from Preschool through the Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
YOUR CHILD'S GROWING UP! From preschool to the preteens, raising your boy or girl is an exhilarating, challenging time. The Mother of All Parenting Books is a comforting instruction manual for the day-to-day adventures that await you. Packed with practical strategies, handy checklists, and parent-tested...
Living Beyond Multiple Sclerosis
A Women's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2000
This second installment from the online group dedicated to supporting each other in the fight against "the MonSter" includes firsthand insights.
Great Feuds in Science
Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern world
Hall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and...
Hopkins
The Mystic Poets
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Discover How Hopkins’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own.
"Poetry and art and music seize upon the human experience in ways that reveal new possibilities of intimacy with the Divine. In the way they reach out and grab us by the heart at unexpected times, they reaffirm...
by Betsy Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Parents’ Guide to Hip Dysplasia is the only consumer guide to one of the most common birth defects in our nation! Now instead of having to comb through medical texts or scour the internet for information, concerned parents of children with hip dysplasia can have all the information they need...
What's Science Ever Done For Us
What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons
This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence,...
by Robert G. Smith, Ph.D., Todd Penberthy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The general explanation for the cause of arthritis is that over time, our joints simply wear out - that is, the cartilage that lubricates the ends of the bones simply gets worn thinner and thinner until one bone wars directly on another, causing pain and lowering our quality of life. It stands to...
Goldfish
Your Happy Healthy Pet
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!
Goldfish are the most widely kept fish in the world. They are the quintessential first pet since goldfish are relatively inexpensive,...
Becoming a Physician
A Practical and Creative Guide to Planning a Career in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"I have advised countless medical students and applicants over more than two decades and I repeatedly found myself agreeing with the advice given by the Daneks." --Michael V. Drake, M.D.Professor and Associate Dean, School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco
"These...
Four Girls From Berlin
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A pair of silver Regency candlesticks.
Pieces of well-worn family jewelry.
More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs
Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family and...
The War on Moms
On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
"A stinging account of how public policy and private businesses have failed to adapt to working mothers."
--Jennifer Ludden, NPR
Why life is harder on American families than it's been in decades—the book that takes the blame away from moms and puts it where it really belongs
Pressed...
by Robert A. Nagourney, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
By taking a fresh look at some of medicine's most sacrosanct dictates, Dr. Nagourney has found a better, faster, smarter way to treat even the most complex cancers.
The Universal Book of Mathematics
From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Praise for David Darling
The Universal Book of Astronomy
"A first-rate resource for readers and students of popular astronomy and general science. . . . Highly recommended."
-Library Journal
"A comprehensive survey and . . . a rare treat."
-Focus
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