David Singer: 16 books
by David Singer
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
What would you do if you could read minds? Dr Finker had no idea, but he's about to find out!
The retired dentist wasn't looking for these amazing abilities. He was simply looking for a cure for the hand tremor that drove him out of his profession.
After a Brazilian healer cures his...
Advancing Peace Research
Leaving Traces, Selected Articles by J. David Singer
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University of Michigan and his numerous books and articles have inspired generations of researchers in...
The Lottery's Magical Effect
The Contest That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
THE LOTTERY”S MAGICAL EFFECT
When retired dentist Dr Cantor’s wife Nelly asked him if he had purchased the powerball lottery ticket she had asked him to purchase, he hesitated and remembered that he did. To his amazement he almost had a heart attack when he saw that he had the winning number....
The Contest for the Most Beautiful Princess in the World
The Biggest and Most Beautiful Boat in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
When the King of the Kingdom of Petrovive decrees a contest for whoever builds the biggest and most beautiful boat in the world, will be able to marry his daughter Princess Isabella. Elliot a young man with good manners, and a very respectful person, manages to earn the appreciation of...
The Success of Failure
The Mysterious Billionaire Plan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Life has never been easy for Gypsies in Romania, they suffer crushing poverty, and they are considered interlopers, always suspected of theft or mischief.
Matei dreams of a better life for his children, but he has only meager earnings from his small shop in Bistrita, Romania. This is his opportunity.
As...
by J.David Singer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is one those rare prefaces in which the author need not attempt to justify, or apologize for, the addition of another book to an already over burdened field. There is certainly no plethora of serious studies on inter national organization in general, and almost none dealing with the administrative...
Regulating Capital
Setting Standards for the International Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Financial instability threatens the global economy. The volatility of capital movements across national borders has led many observers to argue for a reformed "global financial architecture," a body of consistent rules and institutions to prevent financial crises. Yet regulators have a decidedly mixed...
LGBTQ Stats
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Award
An essential handbook of myth-busting facts and figures about the real lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people**
Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United...
by Tikva Frymer-kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in JewishChristian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that have taken place in Christian...
Edgar G. Ulmer
Detour on Poverty Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
by Jamie McEwan, David Lubar, Marilyn Singer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This anthology of short, autobiographical stories has kids’ book authors telling tales of their own real-life athletic incidents. Some are funny, some are serious, and some put their own twist on the whole “sports” concept. Eight stories from both “boys” and “girls” include tales of...
by Stephanie Greene, Joanna Henryks, David Livert
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday”...
Participatory Journalism
Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public.
A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing...
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