Bonner: 156 books
by Thomas Neville Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive...
Dice Have No Memory
Big Bets and Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Right now, Congress, the Fed, and the Treasury are all gambling with your future and your money. And it's contagious. Economies around the globe are suffering from the biggest multitrillion-dollar bets ever wagered on big governments and miraculous financial interventions in pretend "free markets."
One...
One More Step
My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Climbing Kilimanjaro, and Surviving the Hardest Race on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements—redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any...
by John Tyler Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection.
With...
Confederate Political Economy
Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government. As Bonner shows,...
Betamännchen
Sind die Männer noch zu retten?
Language: German
Release Date: September 16, 2014
NOMINIERT FÜR DEN LOVELYBOOKS-LESERPREIS! Be|ta|männ|chen, das: orientierungsloser moderner Mann ohne festes Rollenbild (ugs. auch Vollidiot, Vollpfosten); vgl. in Abgrenzung: Alphamännchen, Alphaweibchen. Die Wahrheit über den modernen Mann ist erschütternd. Und urkomisch! Stefan Bonner und...
Family Fortunes
How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s “5 Great Books You Should Read”
Advice on managing your wealth from bestselling author Bill Bonner
From trusted New York Times bestselling author Bill Bonner comes a radical new way to look at family money and a practical, actionable guide to getting...
Why Size Matters
From Bacteria to Blue Whales
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's...
by Packie Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Irish national hero, a Celtic great and their most-capped player, Patrick 'Packie' Bonner is a goalkeeping legend.
He was Jock Stein's last signing for the club when he left his native Donegal for the city of Glasgow in 1978, where Packie evolved from being a shy, homesick teenager into a confident,...
The New Empire of Debt
The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
An updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil
In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire.
Throughout...
by Hilary Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
‘Pick up Hilary Bonner at your peril - you won’t be able to put her down’ - Val McDermid
A twenty-five-year old murder, a missing girl, and a fatal attraction in a small seaside town…It is the first Sunday in August 1970. Another beautiful day in a summer that is burning itself to a...
Averting the Apocalypse
Social Movements in India Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1990
There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews...
Sailing with Noah
Stories from the World of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Written by the president of the nation’s number-one zoo, Sailing with Noah is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P. Bonner, who was trained as an anthropologist and came to the zoo world quite by accident, shares some of the most compelling stories ever told about...
by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
On September 2, 1945, surrender ceremonies officially ending World War II were broadcast worldwide from the deck of the USS Missouri. The ceremony also marked the end of one of the most eventful years for any vessel in the history of warfare. USS Missouri at War chronicles the career of this mighty...