The book describes mechanisms by which the planet is driven towards a state of abundance explaining sustainability and abundance principles. It explains related technology intervention and environment
Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated va
Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated va
This hilarious book captures the conversations overheard on city streets. From the banal and funny, through the touching and infuriating to the downright crazy, cartoonist Oslo Davis records the odd t
This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window thro
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is
Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK
LIFE TOGETHER WITH JESUS is a spiritual road map for new believers, explaining the new birth, new life, and living in the power of the Holy Spirit. Subjects covered are wider than most books for
The 2016 election was one of the most dramatic upsets in U.S. history. Explaining the surprising Trump victory, the contributors trace the entire gamut of the election. Illustrated with 200 meticulous
'Required reading ... Brock Bastian expertly picks apart the fundamental idea that humans thrive when they approach pleasure and avoid pain, explaining why hardship sometimes yields richer lives that
Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level
In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning with the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of k
Safe:, is a collection of poems that were drawn from different places. The people in my life are the reason that these poems were created. I had many conversations on the topic of Love, self and wonde
This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information sy
Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA covers it all: bleep tests; forty-way WhatsApp conversations; fair-weather Dub supp
"I love life in its living form, life that's found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, w
Poetry. Decades in gestation, the riveting, poem-memoir THE GATES OF PEARL is woven together from a mother's Overeater's Anonymous journal written in the 1970s, mother-daughter telephone conversations
Looks at how the police deal with a missing persons case, explaining how people tend to go missing, detailing famous cases, and showing the science of forensics.
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. A document explaining the sevent
“An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time…A highly illuminating intellectual investigation” (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience
As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shooti
Introduces the world's most amazing skyscrapers while explaining the engineering behind their creation, covering the Empire State Building, Petronas Twin Towers, Burj Khalifa, and Shanghai Tower.
Introduces the world's most thrilling fairground inventions while explaining the engineering behind their creation, including swingboats, carousels, bumper cars, and roller coasters.
Introduces the world's most beautiful bridges while explaining the engineering behind their creation, covering the Golden Gate Bridge, the Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge, and the Millau Viaduct.
Discussing an idea that grew out of conversations beginning during the late 1990s about how to extend the internet into interplanetary space, Fraire, Finochietto, and Burleigh apply delay-tolerant
Praise for prior editions"an excellent treatise of thin film coatings, explaining how to produce all sorts of different filters selected according to the function they are required to play… an indispe
The perfect tool to add to any 'therapeutic treasure box', this set of 68 cards provide a way to help open conversations and structure discussions with children and adolescents aged 6+. The treasure d
The gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women’s lives. Most approaches to explaining the gap focus on adult employment despite the fact that many Americans begi
The gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women’s lives. Most approaches to explaining the gap focus on adult employment despite the fact that many Americans begi
The Third Edition of this best-selling text guides students and researchers through the process of doing qualitative research, clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what
The Third Edition of this best-selling text guides students and researchers through the process of doing qualitative research, clearly explaining how different theoretical approaches inform what
This book begins by explaining key concepts in programming, and elaborates on characteristic of class, including inheritance, derivation and polymorphism. It also introduces generic programming and St
Easyway is the most successful stop-smoking method of all time. It has helped smokers from all over the world to quit. Now it has been applied to problem drinking. After explaining why you feel the ne
Each book presented here has been chosen for its scientific and artistic merit, and each one is accompanied by an essay from a museum expert, explaining its role in the development of natural history.
Share Your Heart with the One Who Keeps ItTrying to juggle all your worries and burdens alone? As the challenges of everyday life threaten to continually distract you, your conversations with God can
This book takes a pragmatic and hype–free approach to explaining artificial intelligence and how it can be utilised by businesses today. At the core of the book is a framework, developed by the author
“For thousands of years people have been using the skills we describe in this book to engage in conversations with others. What isn’t as prevalent, however, is instruction--especially in primary grade
In New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, Martin Shuster dives deep into the smartest shows of the past twenty-five years, from Twin Peaks to Orange Is the New Black, explaining how t
In New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, Martin Shuster dives deep into the smartest shows of the past twenty-five years, from Twin Peaks to Orange Is the New Black, explaining how t
At the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Michael Auping helped transform the museum into an internationally acclaimed institution. This book collects nearly eighty conversations with more than forty of
