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Holiday Symbols and Customs
Keith Jones · Omnigraphics Inc
Pages: 1437
Format: Hardcover
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"Describes the origins of over 365 holidays around the world. Explains where, when, and how each event is celebrated, with detailed information on the symbols and customs associated with the holiday. Includes contact information and web sites for related organizations"-- |
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America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond
Randall K Wilson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
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How is it that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing question, Randall K. Wilson traces the often-forgotten... |
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The Industries of the Future
Alec Ross · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one... |
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Marilyn Johnson · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones - the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all.Pompeii,... |
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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
David Reynolds · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." -Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman... |
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The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time
Mark Nelson PhD · Synergetic Press
Format: Print book
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Mark Nelson, PhD, takes us on a global expedition to learn how we are wasting the world's dwindling supply of fresh water by flushing away a very valuable resource, our own human wastes! The author is founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades... |
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Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians
KATIE FITZGERALD · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
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Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides the tools necessary to put together successful summer reading programs for each of these different age groups. Key elements include: Sample program ideas for early childhood, school-age, teen, and adult... |
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The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
Paul M. Cobb · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group of warriors, driven... |
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The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Gary Greenberg · Blue Rider Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM—the American Psychiatric Association’s compendium of mental illnesses... |
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1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
John Mitchinson · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Timesbest-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of triviainformative, hilarious,... |
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Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
Guy P. Harrison · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in a detailed fashion how to sort through bad ideas, unfounded claims, and bogus information... |
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The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Colin G. Calloway · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated,... |
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