Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker
One Nation Under Stress
The wear and tear of American life has been a topic of public concern ever since the mid-nineteenth century when middle-class men faced pressures to succeed in a newly industrialized society. But although stress is often associated with conditions...
Rogue Regime
How combustible is the Korean crisis? Very, is the only sensible answer. In 1994, the united states came close to launching a pre-emptive strike against North Korea. Since then perhaps three million have died of starvation in the North, a disaster...
Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
"A highly appealing read. . . . Children will readily gravitate to this book." --School Library Journal What do young superheroes do when they've blundered and bungled? They don't get mad; they get SMART! This fun follow-up to Even Super...
Compassion for Couples
How resilient is your relationship? Do you and your partner go into "reactivity mode" when a conflict arises? Do you wish you were closer and more connected? We all need healthy, secure relationships in order to thrive--but they can be h...
Inorganic Mass Spectrometry
Providing an exhaustive review of this topic, Inorganic Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Applications¿provides details on all aspects of inorganic mass spectrometry, from a historical overview of the topic to the principles and functions of mass ...
Fabulous Tale of Fish and Chips
Joseph Malin loves his grandmother's fried fish, which she makes according to an old family recipe. It's so good, he thinks he might be able to make some money from it; money that his immigrant Jewish family desperately needs. He takes it into the...
Denial of Death
'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Dea...
Tree and the River
A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form. WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR ILLUSTRATION AND SHADOWERS' CHOICE AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATION 2024. For his...
Pattern and Loom
When John Becker's Pattern and Loom was posthumously published in 1987, the work was hailed as an important work that revealed much new knowledge on the development of weaving techniques across the centuries from China through to Europe. The key t...
Choosing and Using Digital Games in the Classroom
This book presents an in-depth overview of the uses of digital games in education, from K-12 up through post-secondary. ¿Beginning with a look at the history of games in education and the context for digital games, this book guides readers through...
Can I Have 5 Minutes of Your Time?
Can I Have 5 Minutes of Your Time? is one of the best selling books on sales to come along in over 20 years. The ideas and concepts inside have been used by tens of thousands of people to increase their sales performance.
Mike Mentzer and Me
Introducing The New Mike Mentzer High Intensity Training Book... Who am I? My name is Paul Becker I am a natural competitive bodybuilder, I was a student and personal training client of Mike Mentzer. I am a personal trainer and bodybuilding consultant who specializes in high intensity training for natural bodybuilders. Why I wrote this book? Mike Mentzer was the one who introduced me to High Intensity Training, he became my idol and my mentor. And that's why this book is dedicated to Mike Mentzer, for his influence on me and on bodybuilding in general. If you want to make the best progress with High Intensity Training you can't just follow a routine you found online, you need to fully understand the theory and practice of it so you can make any necessary adjustments so that it will actually work for you. I wrote this book to share with you everything I learned over the past 45 years, what works, what doesn't and how to tailor High Intensity Training for your own unique body, exercise
What is Real?
Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed q...
Amazigh Arts in Morocco
In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewelry. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich ...
Crushing It
From debut author Erin Becker comes an action-packed but tender novel about first romance, queer identity, and learning how to be brave when it matters the most. On the soccer field, Magic Mel is in her element. She’s ready to lead her team to victory at the city championship in her new role as captain. Off the field, however, is a totally different story. Mel can’t get a handle on her class presentation, her friend group has completely dissolved, and her ex-friend-current-teammate, Tory, is being the worst. The only place she feels like herself is in her text conversations where she shares her secret poetry with BTtoYouPlease. Tory McNally, on the other hand, is keeping everything together, thank you very much. So what if her mom is more preoccupied with her craft projects and new husband than her, or that she’s down to one IRL friend because of annoying, overly peppy “Magic” Mel? She’s perfectly fine, and even when she maybe isn’t, she’s got NotEmilyD to text with. As the
Disrupted Lives
Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural...
Bronstein's Children
An 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard. They are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit his crimes. This novel illustrates the tensions between ...
Thinking in Place
Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site wher...
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Deep Listeners
"A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis. . . . Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate to the basic f...