Jessica: 4351 books
Treat Yourself!
How to Make 93 Ridiculously Fun No-Bake Crispy Rice Treats
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
It all began with a giant cheeseburger-shaped rice crispy treat, created on a whim and posted online. Since then, Misterkrisp, aka food artist Jessica Siskin, has become an Instagram sensation with her joy-inducing, pop-culture-inspired treats.
Treat Yourself! is the perfect answer for any...
by Jessica Greiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Would you be interested in a skill that helps you know what other people are thinking and feeling, even if they aren't really sure of it themselves?
The fact is that the people who tend to be the most successful in life aren't those who are the strongest or the smartest. But they are the ones...
Exploiting Turkana
Robbing the cradle of mankind
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
“Almost everything in Turkana is an emergency” Peter Lokoel, Deputy Govenor Turkana Modernity versus tradition; pressure on people and cultures; the potential for environmental catastrophe and private enterprises laying claim to the planet’s natural resources all challenge Turkana. This is one...
Animating Empire
Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political...
by Jessica Milner Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese...
Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry
Love after Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical...
by Jessica Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger...
by Jessica Besse
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
The Journey Of Youth is a young girl's account of the "growing-up" experiences manyyoung people may experience on the "path to maturity." The author's incisive language andpoignant examples present an opportunity for broader understanding of such problems.
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures
New Directions in Research and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
by Jessica Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Cancer Symptoms is a guide that lists over 10+ Cancer Symptoms aimed at giving you the reader an early warning system so that you can be able to catch Cancer as early as possible to better cure it or prevent it and get back to health. This is a MUST to better protect you and your loved ones.
by Jessica Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Now I know what you are telling yourself...I would really like to camp, it looks fun but I have no idea how to camp, what to bring or what to expect. There are a few things that you really have to determine before you can figure out what you need to do to get ready for your camping trip. Answering...
Modernist Commitments
Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of...
by Jessica Straley
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and...