Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity
A Cultural History of The Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empires...
Basic Structures
Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and case studies show the concepts in use, and the book is well illustrated with full colour photographs and ma...
Global 200 Executive Recruiters
The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Talent--or the Job--You Need I have always been very impressed by Nancy Garrison-Jenn's knowledge and consider her the world's foremost expert on executive search. Her book will provide invaluable information to c...
On the Trail of the Assassins
The New York Times Bestseller. about the search for the assassins of JFK. "Garrison's book presents the most powerful detailed case yet made that President Kennedy's assassination was the product of a conspiracy, and that the plotters and key...
Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
Guts 'n Gunships: What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
Six More Months of June
The exhilarating highs and messy lows that encapsulate the end of high school come together in this immersive YA romance debut. With only one month of high school left, will Mina and Caplan risk their friendship for love, or stay just friends..? M...
Hemochromatosis Cookbook
The Hemochromatosis Cookbook is written specifically for those who are looking for delicious, easy recipes that control their intake of iron - and taste amazing! This essential cookbook contains healthy and creative appetizers, soups and salads, f...
Dewey and Eros Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching
"We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what mot...
Darkness of God
Why is it that after several thousand million years of evolving life on the planet earth, our species- in our generation - has brought this life to the verge of extinction through thermonuclear war? This, Jim Garrison argues, is the single greates...
The Book of Guys: Stories
'Guys are in trouble these days,' says Garrison Keillor. 'Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge.' This brilliant collection confirms Keillor's reputation as an ingenious storyteller and a very funny guy.
Good Poems for Hard Times
An eclectic anthology of poetic works, selected for their uplifting and honest themes, includes pieces by such writers as Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. Collected by the author of Homegrown Democrat. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
Pilgrims
Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her - he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussy Norlan...
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-1002) and Henry II (1002-1024). Author Eliza Garrison analyzes liturgical artworks created for both rul...
Lake Wobegon Days
A chronicle of this imaginary place, narrated by a skinny kid with wire-rimmed glasses who is raised as a straitlaced Protestant but is fascinated by the Catholic Church (he dreams of being burnt at the stake) and by the notion of a more exotic fa...
The Chemistry of Soils
There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989 (RTD: 6,747). The physical-chemistry approach to soil chemistry taken in the book, groundbreaking for its time, has been ado...
Bracing for Armageddon
This timely book is a concise survey of the U.S. government's civil defense plans from World War II to the present, including Cold War detonations, Reagan-era Star Wars, and contemporary issues of homeland security. Garrison argues that the true p...
Love Me
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The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage
Researched by a bestselling author, this compendium of more than 2,500 entries and 250 illustrations covers the terms, equipment, and organization of the three million soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
Civil War Curiosities
True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and ...
Quantum Optics
Quantum optics, i.e. the interaction of individual photons with matter, began with the discoveries of Planck and Einstein, but in recent years it has expanded beyond pure physics to become an important driving force for technological innovation. T...