Douglas: 4895 books
The Fossil Detectives
Discovering Prehistoric Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution. Since the appearance of primitive organisms in Britain more than a billion years ago, oceans, deserts, swamps and vast mountains have come and gone...
by Robert Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young love for Rhea and Robert; a surprising...
Rescue of the Bounty
Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.
On...
by Douglas Houghton Campbell.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell..
Surfaces and Essences
Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Is there one central mechanism upon which all human thinking rests? Cognitive scientists Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander argue that there is. At this core is our incessant proclivity to take what we perceive, to abstract it, and to find resemblances to prior experiences—in other words, our...
by Douglas Whynott
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs...
by Douglas Whynott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
This elegantly written and compelling work portrays the way the Japanese demand for giant bluefin tuna has altered the lives of Cape Cod fishermen. In telling the story of one man's passionate hunt for giant bluefin, Douglas Whynott details the competition and camaraderie in the bluefin fishery, the...
Fallout
The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, Fallout painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA’s errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States...
by Joseph S. Tuman, Dr. Douglas Fraleigh
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
A comprehensive guide to effective participation in the public debate about our most indispensable right: freedom of expression
Encouraging readers to think critically about freedom of speech and expression and the diverse critical perspectives that challenge the existing state of the law,...
Straight Talk on Leadership
Solving Canada's Business Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
An urgent wake-up call—and radical action plan—for business leaders everywhere
While it focuses primarily on Canadian business, this important book shares valuable insights of benefit to transformational business leaders everywhere. Without sugar coating his message, author R. Douglas Williamson,...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
Gone Missing
A Guide for Those Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Thousands of people go missing each year, exceeding the combined number of traffic fatalities, suicides and all the injuries requiring hospitalisation. In addition, each person reported missing affects at least twelve others emotionally or financially; immobilising families as there can be no closure...
Risk and Blame
Essays in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can...
The Ten-Minute Marriage Principle
Quick, Daily Steps for Refreshing Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Counselor Dr. Douglas Weiss developed this easy-to-follow plan for improving your marriage. By investing just ten minutes a day to focus on each other and do simple exercises, couples can enhance their marriages in ways they will benefit from for a lifetime!