Michael D : 1112 books
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society...
The Athena Doctrine
How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
**New York Times Bestseller
How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future**
Among 64,000 people surveyed in thirteen nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from...
by Michael D. Beil
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to sail,...
Bright Minds, Poor Grades
Understanding and Movtivating your Underachieving Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
For any parent who has ever been told, "your child isn't performing up to his or her potential," this book has the answer. Renowned clinical psychologist Michael Whitley, Ph.D. offers a proven ten-step program to motivate underachieving children. This easy-to follow book identifies the six...
by Michael D'Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Who is the man shaking up the GOP?
What does he really stand for?
How far will he go in his pursuit of power?
This is
THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP
He is one of the world’s most successful businessmen—and a man who many Americans love to hate. So how did Donald Trump become a serious contender...
Maritime Terrorism
Risk and Liability
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Policymakers have become increasingly concerned in recent years about the possibility of future maritime terrorist attacks. Though the historical occurrence of such attacks has been limited, recognition that maritime vessels and facilities may be particularly vulnerable to terrorism has galvanized...
Working on the Dock of the Bay
Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers—black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant—in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the...
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly;...
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana
A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier’s correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account...
by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
“Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal
Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion...
by Michael D'Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
An Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominee
An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who fought for justice
In...
A Union Indivisible
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung...
The Perpetual Now
A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about...
The Pseudoscience Wars
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary...