Walter: 4352 books
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The bestselling guide to healthy eating, debunking dietary myths and proposing the radical benefits of low-carbohydrate diet, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy is “filled with advice backed up by documented research” (Tara Parker-Pope, The Wall Street Journal).
Dr. Walter Willett’s research...
Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine
From Symptom to Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Proven quality, right up to dateA pragmatic approach to differential diagnosis gives rapid, reliable answers to these questions: Which diseases are likely? What causes them? What are the typical characteristics of these disorders? Do they correspond with the symptoms in question? How can the preliminary...
Clean, Green, and Lean
Get Rid of the Toxins That Make You Fat
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
A renowned naturopathic doctor shows you how to get lean and be green while helping to save the planet.
Now you can lose weight and be good to the environment, too—without starvation diets, calorie counting, complicated meal plans, or even having to exercise. Dr. Walter Crinnion, a naturopathic...
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
A History of Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new...
Black Business in the New South
A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1993
At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North Carolina, which was known as the "Black Wall Street of America," this business came to symbolize the ideas of racial progress, self-help,...
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework...
Beyond the Wild Blue
A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007 (2nd edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
The second edition of Beyond the Wild Blue, an update of the popular history originally released in 1997, is a fascinating look at sixty turbulent years of Air Force history. From the prop-driven armada of World War II to the most advanced Stealth weaponry, from pioneers like General Henry "Hap"...
American Foreign Relations
A New Diplomatic History
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic and strategic motives, Walter L. Hixson integrates key cultural factors—including race, gender, and...
From Africa to Brazil
Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how...
by Walter Burt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when the pre-Dreadnought HMS Zealandia entered dry...
Crossroads of Freedom
Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most...
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters—petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy...
by Walter Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of the Palmetto State's premier historian, Walter Edgar, who had not yet begun the two landmark volumes—South...
Manual para no morir de amor (Edición mexicana)
Diez principios de supervivencia afectiva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Niégate a sufrir por amor, declárate en huelga afectiva, haz las paces con la soledad y atempara la necesidad de amar por encima de todo y a cualquier precio. Rescata el amor propio, tu primer gran amor a partir del cual se generan los otros. Walter Riso nos adentra en algunos de los problemas que...