David Kaiser: 17 books
by David Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
David Kaiser began his serious study of history as a Harvard undergraduate in the fall of 1965 and began his professional career as a junior faculty member in 1976. During the next 37 years, he taught dozens of courses, wrote seven books, changed the lives of many students, and carefully observed...
by David Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
“Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again.”—Science
In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the...
by Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific...
by David Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Ed’s entire career had been focused on products of value which didn’t change regardless who produced it and the quality would remain the same regardless whether grown or mined. He was well aware of the effects of supply and demand on commodities and now the door was wide open to apply his experience as an investor in real estate.
No End Save Victory
How FDR Led the Nation into War
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An acclaimed historian reveals how Roosevelt and his cabinet engineered America's entry into-and ultimate victory in-World War II.
Baseball Greatness
Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution each player makes to team success or failure. Using the metric Wins Above Average (WAA)—the number of wins that the 2016 Red Sox, for example, added because they had Mookie Betts in right...
Planet of the Umps
A Baseball Life from Behind the Plate
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2004
"Two things nobody wants to grow up to be are an umpire and broke. Thanks to my career in baseball, I got both."
After calling balls, strikes, and outs for thirty-six baseball seasons and more than three thousand major-league games, umpire Ken Kaiser finally called it a career. From...
Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte
25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik am Historischen Institut der Universität Stuttgart
Language: German
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Die Festschrift Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte, herausgegeben von Helmuth Albrecht, erschien aus Anlass des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Gründung des Stuttgarter Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik. Nun ist aus Anlass des 50-jährigen Jubiläums diese Neuausgabe...
The Blue Line Imperative
What Managing for Value Really Means
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
A groundbreaking guide to making profitable business decisions
Do you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing the payoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinking about value all wrong? According to the authors of this groundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance...
Natural Hazard Mitigation
Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and mcostly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.*Natural Hazard...
by François Belleflamme, Philippe Levert, Bruno Lombaert
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
La loi du 20 janvier 2014 portant réforme de la compétence, de la procédure et de l’organisation du Conseil d’État souffle sa première bougie et ses douze premiers mois d’application s’apparentent à tout sauf à un long fleuve tranquille.
Le texte et ses arrêtés d’exécution...
Hall of Heroes
Fellowship of Fantasy, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Twenty-Seven Thrilling Tales from Amazing Fantasy Authors!
Whether they are unwitting, plucky, or just plain epic, heroes capture the imagination and rescue us from everyday life. With stories set in fantastic, magical realms, gritty urban landscapes, and fairytale kingdoms, our heroes stand...
by Arnetha F. Ball, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and...
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