Austin: 1740 books
Losing Susan
Brain Disease, the Priest's Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The Story of Brain Disease and the Priest's Wife
This is the story of Susan--a wife, mother, Christian believer, lover of children, writer of stories, and woman of extraordinary intellect. Susan was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her late thirties. Although it was successfully treated, the...
by T. Austin-Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
The ends of the ages are coming upon us and there is a very, very, very big explanation to the pressure and the suffering, the spiritual intensity through which we are passing now. Some of you are feeling that pressing in, that intense spiritual pressure, it is becoming almost unbearable. There is...
by Gloria Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
More and more of us are being diagnosed with cancer, which seems to affect every part of the body. For years, the only way of treating this disease was through chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, which are termed as conventional treatment. Lately, the nonconventional way of taking care of our bodies...
The Sweet Season
A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports, to while away a season with the Johnnies. So, he moves his family...
by Martin Austin
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Business Development in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries accounts for over $5 billion in licensing deal value per year and much more than that in the value of mergers and acquisitions. Transactions range from licences to patented academic research, to product developments as licences,...
by Colin Austin, Robert Giloth
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Throughout the nonprofit sector, successes are celebrated and mistakes tend to be deliberately forgotten. But, as Mistakes to Success: Learning and Adapting When Things Go Wrong makes clear, this is a lost opportunity. Discussing, analyzing and learning from mistakes should be a common practice, which...
Economic Voting
A Campaign-Centered Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The conventional wisdom of economic voting theory argues that a nation's economic performance drives electoral outcomes. Therefore, voters will hold an administration accountable for its economic stewardship. Austin Hart challenges the simplicity of this notion, drawing on cognitive-psychological...
The Virtues of Capitalism
A Moral Case for Free Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In the aftermath of the recent economic downturn, some observers leveled harsh criticism against free-market economies. In the spring of 2009, for instance, an article in the The London Telegraph insisted that the industrialized West must re-articulate its moral case for market capitalism. Additionally,...
Human Services Management
Organizational Leadership in Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities...
Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning
Integrating Human and Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. Austin takes a broad look at green infrastructure concepts, research and case studies to provide the student and professional with processes, criteria and data to support...
Fake Science
Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..."
You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more...
Sell Your Home in 7 Days
Stage. Show. Sell
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Save thousands by selling your home yourself. Anyone can do it with the right expert advice that will walk you through the important steps to sell your own home for maximum dollars and in only 7 days!
Whether an investor or your own home, I've helped thousands of people sell property using these simple steps, saving clients thousands of dollars.
Greetings from Detroit
Historic Postcards from the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long lost...
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival...