Matthew: 5036 books
Fortress Europe
Dispatches from a Gated Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region-and history’s greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian...
Defending Politics
Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing...
by Matthew C Le Merle, Alison Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The Internet didn't even exist 30 years ago, and now billions of people are connected to the web every day, and remarkable new technologies are being invented every day that will dramatically change the way humans exist on our planet. This emerging playing field is not well understood and not everyone...
Slavery's Borderland
Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical...
The Loyal West
Civil War and Reunion in Middle America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West--a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won...
by Matthew Yubas
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This real-world guide shows startup entrepreneurs the tools and techniques to profit from their product ideas. Follow this step-by-step roadmap from product idea to market launch.
These powerful methods streamline development time and get you ready to successfully launch your product.
You’ll...
Why?
What Your Life Is Telling You about Who You Are and Why You're Here
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Do you wonder what your true path in life is? We each have a purpose and a mission. However, uncovering this purpose can be challenging, and often daunting. If you are like most, you have probably asked yourself, “Why am I here?” But where do you turn for answers? Religion? Psychology? Spirituality?
Written...
Baltimore
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and...
Narratives of Crisis
Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
How did you first hear about 9/11? What images come to mind when you think of Hurricane Katrina? How did your community react to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? You likely have your own stories about these tragic events. Yet, as a society, we rarely stop to appreciate the narratives that...
NGOs as Newsmakers
The Changing Landscape of International News
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
As traditional news outlets’ international coverage has waned, several prominent nongovernmental organizations have taken on a growing number of seemingly journalistic functions. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières send reporters to gather information...
Let Them Eat Carbon
The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect...
Oil
A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Matthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without oil—only to stumble before exiting the bathroom (petroleum products play a role in shampoo, shaving cream, deodorant, and contact lenses). When Oil was published in cloth last year, it was quickly...
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol
The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898--1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively crafted. A variety of themes emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, but much of the scholarship...
Continuity Despite Change
The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change...