Ben: 3397 books
by Ben McC. Moïse
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Ben McC. Moïse served with distinction as a South Carolina game warden for nearly a quarter century, patrolling the coastal woods and waters of the Palmetto State. In this colorful career-spanning memoir, the cigar-chomping, ticket-writing scourge of lowcountry fish-and-game-law violators chronicles...
by Tal BEN-SHAHAR
Language: French
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Drôle, accessible, rassurant, un petit traité pour se libérer d'un mal insidieux : le perfectionnisme. Après le succès de L'Apprentissage du bonheur, un livre de travail indispensable pour apprendre à s'accepter, même imparfait, et être enfin soi-même.
Se dépasser. Faire toujours...
Der böse Ort
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Magische Architektur in Südlondon
Seltsame Dinge geschehen im Skygarden Tower, einem berüchtigten Sozialwohnblock in Südlondon. Dinge, die eine magische Anziehungskraft auf Police Constable und Zauberlehrling Peter Grant ausüben. Zunächst geht es nur um ein gestohlenes altes Buch über...
Coal in the 21st Century
Energy Needs, Chemicals and Environmental Controls
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The long-term future for coal looks bleak. The recent UN climate change conference in Paris called for an end to the use of fossil fuels. However, coal remains one of the world’s most important sources of energy, fuelling more than 40% of electricity generation worldwide, with many developing nations...
Steal Away Golden Calf
a novel.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Hammer is a kleptomaniac but the world outside his mind is strict and enforces public amputation for minor/major offenses. The State insists on it and - besides Hammer's unfortunate familiarity with the town pillory - crime hasn't been lower. There's a prosthetic black market that Hammer proudly boycotts...
Qur’An-Bible Comparison
A Topical Study of the Two Most Influential and Respectful Books in Western and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
As one of the biggest and most rapidly growing religions, the Islamic faith attracts a lot of attention and debates. The last sixty years have been witness to innumerable conflicts between Muslims and Jews, and Muslims and the western world (notably Christians). Many famous people have accepted Islam,...
Foreign Policy in the European Union
History, theory & practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Ben Soetendorp examines the extent to which individual member states - each with their own history, special interests and styles of foreign policy-making - still dominate the common foreign policy making process within the European Union. The first part of the book reviews the diverse foreign policy...
James Farmer Jr.
The Great Debater
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.’s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence...
Making Up Our Mind
What School Choice Is Really About
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its...
In Sickness and in Health
Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage
Ben Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello...
Mathematics of Planet Earth
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was started and continues to be consolidated as a collaboration of mathematical science organisations around the world. These organisations work together to tackle global environmental, social and economic problems using mathematics.
This textbook introduces...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
by Ben Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters...
by Ben D
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Blackgate Psychiatric Hospital specializes in the long-term treatment of patients who are considered a danger to themselves or society due to their mental illness. Natalie is one such patient and on the warmest Winter Solstice on record she is stuck at the Hospital’s mandatory holiday party. After...