Keith: 3326 books
by Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The United States maintains important interests in Afghanistan, even as most U.S. and allied troops are withdrawn in 2014. Seth G. Jones and Keith Crane assess the political, security, and economic challenges facing U.S. policymakers in Afghanistan and evaluate a range of policy options.
The Tea Cyclopedia
A Celebration of the World's Favorite Drink
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Tea drinking has become a way of life. To put it frankly, it is a love, an addiction, and some would even go as far to say a philosophy. Dr. Keith Souter examines the perpetual impact that this adored beverage has bestowed upon the world for centuries, from its mystical origins in the East, to its...
by Keith Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it. However, their impact has not been limited to debates about geology and evolution: attempts to explain their existence has shaken religion at its very roots, and they have remained a subject...
The Fifty-Year Seduction
How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's rise as a big business. Television, which multiplied the number of people who cared...
by Dean Keith Simonton, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
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Genius 101 makes for a great read on a centuries-old scientific puzzle - as well as a lively text on the wellsprings and manifestations of genius.
Teresa M. Amabile, PhD
The Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
[A] clear and engaging...
Our Minds, Our Selves
A Brief History of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made them
Advances in psychology have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind. Imaging technology allows researchers to monitor brain activity, letting us see what happens...
Not a Chance
God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Despite claiming unbelief in God or any higher power that may have designed or created the world and all that is in it, modern scientists often write and speak of chance as some kind of being or force that can cause things to happen. In one breath they push the evolution agenda and in the next they...
Why There Almost Certainly Is a God
Doubting Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Richard Dawkins recently claimed that 'no theologian has ever produced a satisfactory response to his arguments'. Well-known broadcaster and author Keith Ward is one of Britain's foremost philosopher-theologians. This is his response. Ward welcomes all comers into philosophy's world of clear definitions,...
Catch 'Em All
The Greatest Pokemon GO Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Pokémon Go is one of those rare worldwide cultural phenomena that comes around once in a generation. Almost overnight, it seemed that half the world was playing the game, while the other half was scoffing at it.
Depending on who you ask, the game is either a great way to get people outside,...
100 Small Steps
The First 100 Pounds You Gotta Think Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Through trial and error, tears and triumph, Keith "Temple" Trotter has lost over 150 pounds and kept it off for close to three years. "100 Small Steps" tells his personal story from the vantage point of his private journal notes. As people began to notice "Temple's" transformation, he wrote down the...
by Keith Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, Keith...
Life Over Cancer
The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original prognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty...
The Grief Survival Handbook
A Guide from Heartache to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The Grief Survival Handbook guides one through and explores the bewildering phases of grief. Denial, depression, anger, hopelessness, insomnia and fatigue are only a few of the distressing emotions and symptoms experienced by those who are struggling under the load of bereavement. Mourning is a distressing...
The Unfinished Game
Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining that...