Rick: 2549 books

In the distant future, the easy paths to artificial intelligence have been outlawed. Mira McAllister, dismayed at the lack of progress the engineering community has made in recent years, determines to find the answers for herself when she comes across a strange, discarded android. Repairing her to...

The technology boom of recent years has given kids numerous reasons to stay inside and play, while parents' increasing safety concerns make it tempting to keep children close to home. But what is being lost as fewer kids spend their free time outdoors? Deprived of meaningful contact with nature, children...

Rick Young's Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 7 is the ultimate guide to getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software. Full of information relevant to both new users and professionals, this book wastes no time in teaching all the vital knowledge needed to edit your project from start...

Maximize the power of your Palm Pre! This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to get the most out of the innovative smartphone built on the Palm webOS platform. How to Do Everything: Palm Pre helps you navigate the interface, load data from various sources, and use all the communication features--phone,...

Rick Copple, author of Healing Infidelity, now writes a follow-up book for the Christian going through the agonizing experience of infidelity. No matter whether you are the spouse who has cheated, or the spouse who has been cheated upon, you will find solid, though little known, Christian teachings...

America has the largest dating culture in the world, but yet it boasts the highest divorce rate. To exacerbate the matter, the divorce rate among believers is as high as non-believers. Dr. Wallace engages the enigmatic issues that are plaguing marriages in a America in a powerful, yet succinct way.He...

Rick Mystrom's Your Type 2 Diabetes Lifeline, clarifies and and beautifully graphs the answer to everyone's most frequently asked health question: What should I eat? The answer is based on more than 60,000 blood tests he's given himself after nearly every meal he's eaten for the past 34 years. Type 2...

Conn's Current Therapy 2014 is an easy-to-use, in-depth guide to the latest advances in therapeutics for common complaints, acute disease and chronic illness. Family medicine experts, Drs. Edward T. Bope and Rick D. Kellerman present the expertise and knowledge of hundreds of skilled international...

Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application prepares readers to be good consumers and evaluators of research. Using concrete examples from published articles, author Rick A. Houser teaches students to take a systematic approach to evaluating professional literature critically and...

Culturally Relevant Ethical Decision-Making in Counseling presents a hermeneutic orientation and framework to address contextual issues in ethical decision-making in counseling and psychotherapy. Authors Rick Houser, Felicia L. Wilczenski, and Mary Anna Ham incorporate broad perspectives of ethical theories which are grounded in various worldviews and sensitive to cultural issues.  

Lucifer Curves tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of how preschool lead poisoning has caused crime waves across centuries and around the world. Lead poisoning also explains USA racial disparities in education, abortion and unwed birth rates, and arrest and incarceration rates. Rick Nevin's peer-reviewed...

Many bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed....

Path of Life is a theological exploration of joy and its significance for Christian living. Join Rick Howe in a quest that will take you into the life of the One in whose presence there is fullness of joy and in whose right hand are pleasures that never end.

When Michael Blowen first dreamed of creating Old Friends, he envisioned a place where Thoroughbred stallions could retire with dignity following their racing or breeding careers. He also wanted people to visit the iconic horses. In 2003, Old Friends opened on leased land with a miniature horse named...