Burt: 444 books
2020 Vision
Today's Business Leaders on Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
What will be the shape of global business in five years’ time? 2020 Vision delivers cutting-edge insights from twenty industry leaders, sharing their current strategies and future plans to cope with the challenges presented in the twenty-first century.
In 2020 Vision leading...
by Jacqueline Burt
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Ready for a J. K. Rowling change? This book is your ultimate resource for J. K. Rowling. Here you will find the most up-to-date 29 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about J. K. Rowling's...
by Alexandra Burt
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Like Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, Remember Mia is a riveting psychological suspense, exploring what happens when a young mother’s worst nightmare becomes devastatingly real…
First I remember the darkness.
Then I remember the blood.
I don’t know where my daughter is.
Estelle...
by Burt Berlowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
In this compassionate rebel sequel, we look at how millions of individual citizen actions have become a massive social change movement that offers every person a chance to make a difference in the world. We feature 65 everyday heroes who have turned adversity into triumph, compassion into commitment and anger into activism, and whose acts of caring and courage are transforming society.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on...
World Art
An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed...
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy’s commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this tragic limitation of liberalism led Lincoln to war.
by Amelia Burt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
Regard for the Other
Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity...
Jews in American Politics
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Joseph Lieberman's Vice Presidential nomination and Presidential candidacy are neither the first nor last words on signal Jewish achievements in American politics. Jews have played an important role in American government since the early 1800s at least, and in view of the 2004 election, there is no...
Wicked Charlotte
The Sordid Side of the Queen City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Bootleggers, swindlers, gold miners and serial killers�Charlotte has courted them all. The Queen City is renowned for its skyline, sports teams and dizzying growth, but just below its smooth, polished exterior lies a dark past full of crime and myriad misdeeds. This second history of Charlotte has...
Unsolved UFO Mysteries
The World's Most Compelling Cases of Alien Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Focusing on unsolved sightings of UFOs and encounters by people in a variety of situations, the authors combine their files to present a number of baffling UFO situations that remain unexplained by conventional science.
by Ray Burt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Blight and the heresy and the darker of the membrane and the sticky knife and the worm of the eunuch and the woeful of the powers and the many often and the gladiators and the praetorian guards and the murderers and the seekers of the stream and the elixir of the pond and the seas of the dead; Doom...
Where They Ain't
The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
Greedy owners, spoiled players, disillusioned fans -- all hallmarks of baseball in the 'nineties. Only in this case, it's the 1890s. We may think that business interests dominate the sport today, but baseball's early years were an even harsher and less sentimental age, when teams were wrenched from...