Bruce Bruce: 4211 books
What Makes Olga Run?
The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the process
In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....
Who Knew? Saving Money Every Day
Easy Ways to Spend Less Around Your Home without Sacrificing a Thing
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The Easiest Ways to Save Money Around Your Home! You don’t have to be a money expert or good at budgeting to save money every day. Inside this book of simple tips and ideas to save money all around your home, bestselling authors Bruce and Jeanne Lubin give you easy ways to save on everyday expenses...
by Bruce J. Avolio
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Conversational and accessible, this Second Edition of Bruce J. Avolio's groundbreaking book uses the full range leadership development model as an organizing framework and shows how it can be directly applied to improving leadership at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Filled with examples...
Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education
An Owner's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Keys to building a new generation of courses and schools
While many futurists tout the value of teaching students 21st-century skills, bridging the concept with the practice is best accomplished by professional educators. Authors Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun know how to actualize...
by Bruce Mazlish
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world.
Cutting across disciplinary boundaries,...
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists
50 Essential Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Statistical methods are a key part of of data science, yet very few data scientists have any formal statistics training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. This practical guide explains how to apply various statistical methods to data science,...
Slow Death by Rubber Duck
The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
A look at the chemicals surrounding us that’s “hard-hitting . . . yet also instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices” (The Washington Post).
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal.
The...
Tomorrow's Cthulhu
Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.
This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.
Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise...
The New Carbon Architecture
Building to Cool the Climate
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
“Green buildings” that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon—the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported—comprising some ten percent of global emissions. With the built environment...
by Bruce R. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The classic reference for charitable gift regulations, updated for 2018
The Tax Law of Charitable Giving is the leading guide to the law, rules, and regulations governing charitable giving. Author Bruce R. Hopkins is the most respected authority in the field; in this book, he provides a comprehensive...
From Assets to Profits
Competing for IP Value and Return
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Edited by IP communications expert Bruce Berman, and with contributions from the top names in IP management, investment and consulting, From Assets to Profits: Competing for IP Value and Return provides a real-world look at patents, copyrights, and trademarks, how intellectual property assets work...
by Bruce R. Sievers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Among the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century is that of sustaining a healthy civil society, which depends upon managing the tension between individual and collective interests. Bruce R. Sievers explores this issue by investigating ways to balance the public and private...
The Great Transition
Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not...
Egypt after Mubarak
Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Egypt after Mubarak reveals that Egypt's secularists and Islamists may yet navigate a middle...