3972 Ergebnisse - Zeige 3961 von 3972.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

A true time-saver, this book has already done all the work and planning so you can provide an engaging, supportive activity program that is easily adapted to the individual personalities, preferences, and ability levels of your clients. More than 90 upbeat activities have been customized to the special needs of people with Alzheimer's disease. All interactions focus on preserving individual dignity and providing opportunities to experience mea...

SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they¿ve always wanted or what they¿ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance¿s, forms the spine of the book, ...

A clear and unvarnished record of the facts concerning the remarkable outpouring of God's Spirit in Wales.

The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences...It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became...

The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an expose of the studio system in its heyday. The Love of the Last Ty...

The Jewish traditions of concern for health and holiness find their natural combination in a vegetarian diet. Recipes are grouped by Jewish holy days, and sample menus are provided for family or social dining. Each section features prayers for table blessings and gatherings appropriate to the occasion. Joyful and practical, The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook includes numerous appendices with advice about where to find vegetarian pareve produc...

With this comprehensive resource, readers will better understand genetic mental retardation syndromes and how they affect behavior. Four major syndromes--Down, Williams, fragile X, and Prader-Willi--and several lesser-known syndromes are covered, with accessible, in-depth information on genetic causes, physical and medical features, speech and language issues, prevalence, cognitive profiles, and adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. Researchers ...

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distill...

Compelling and easy to understand, this book explains the medical and social issues surrounding fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effects (FAE). Compassionately written by the expert psychologist who conducted some of the earliest examinations of children with FAS and FAE more than 20 years ago, this guidebook explains how to identify and work with children and adults who have the disorder and how to educate prospective mothers an...

How is it possible that Earth's atmospheric temperature has remained perfectly suited to supporting life for billions of years? Why do oxygen levels in the atmosphere remain relatively stable when only a minuscule increase would cause everything on Earth to spontaneously combust? Why are the oceans salty, but not salty enough to make them uninhabitable? In the 1960s, an English scientist names James Lovelock formulated a groundbreaking and hig...