Christopher: 7927 books
Doing Bad by Doing Good
Why Humanitarian Action Fails
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe. Yet two years later humanitarian efforts led by governments and NGOs have largely failed. Resources are not reaching the needy due to bureaucratic red...
Developing Ecological Consciousness
The End of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Developing Ecological Consciousness is a marked departure from those standard environmental studies texts strongly focused on actions that humans need to take to fix the environment. Christopher Uhl explores the path to living in harmony with Earth, and believes it begins — not with fixing the environment...
Mad About Modern Physics
Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
More mind-bending fun in physics
The sequel to the popular Mad About Physics, Mad About Modern Physics promises endless hours of entertaining, challenging fun. With detailed answers to hundreds of questions ("Are fluorescent lights dangerous to your health?", "What is a fuel cell?"),...
by Christopher Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
New Efficient Government looks at the growing financial and debt burdens affecting government, and how streamlined, focused spending can reduce burdens and increase effectiveness.The increasing relevance of environmental management and sustainability is explored, with a discussion of the harmonization...
The Man from Africa
The Cultural Differences Experienced by an African Immigrant Living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
In his memoir, The Man from Africa, author Christopher Osagie describes the cultural differences that he experienced when he moved from Africa to the United States. In spite of these differences, he adjusts to his new life and learns to appreciate the higher moral standards in his new country. From...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
Revolutionizing Innovation
Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes...
For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades...
by Christopher Coker
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central to the human condition; it...
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Resurgence and the Development Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy.
Christopher May discusses:
how the World Intellectual Property Organization works, its...
Russian Foreign Policy
Interests, Vectors, and Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In a truly contemporary analysis of Moscow's relations with its neighbors and other strategic international actors, Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Christopher Marsh use a comprehensive vectors approach, dividing the world into eight geographic zones. Each vector chapter looks at the dynamics of key bilateral...
Thinking Like a Political Scientist
A Practical Guide to Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts...
Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism
Debunking Myths about the Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This IEA publication deals head-on with a number of widely quoted myths about the market economy. In the case of the philosophical myths, such as the idea that economists believe that everybody is greedy, the author, Christopher Snowdon, carefully and entertainingly unpicks the misguided ideas that...
On a Dollar a Day
One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
What happens when two high school teachers get fed up with their soaring grocery bills and decide to try to feed themselves on one dollar each, per day? Authors Kerri Leonard and Christopher Greenslate describe how they did it--and also include sections about eating on a little more than $4 a day,...