Michael D : 1112 books
Scientific Babel
How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise,...
Showdown with Nuclear Iran
Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Is the world ready for nuclear Jihad?
Showdown with Nuclear Iran is a gripping and detailed exposé of Iran's relentless pursuit of atomic weapons and its apocalyptic goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. Michael D. Evans, who has been working in the Middle East for the last three...
by Paul Kroll, Michael D. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This is an introduction to the book of Acts, and a commentary on the first three chapters. By Paul Kroll, a journalist, and Michael D. Morrison, PhD, instructor in New Testament at Grace Communion Seminary.
Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies
The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today,...
Eagle Blue
A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Eagle Blue follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. With insight, frankness, and compassion, Michael D'Orso...
by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Reid Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Leadership Transitions and Team Building Collection includes two important books: The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded, by Michael D. Watkins, and The Alliance, by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh. Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a...
The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and...
Harnessing Complexity
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that...
Who Moved My Standards?
Joyful Teaching in an Age of Change: A SOAR-ing Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This story will ring familiar to every teacher working to prepare students for an increasingly complex, rapidly changing world. The young squirrels and blue jays must learn to fly to a nut tree far in the distance, a task that has never been accomplished before, but the flight instructors aren’t...
Co-parenting 101
Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households after Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A successful co-parenting relationship is as vital to your child's well-being and health as nutritious food or proper exercise. Research, anecdotal evidence, and plain common sense all point to the fact that children are happier, healthier, and better adjusted when both of their parents play an active...
Absolutely Small
How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Physics is a complex and daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying--even thrilling. And it is absolutely one you can understand. Absolutely Small develops your intuition for the very nature of things at their most basic and intriguing levels by demystifying the world of quantum science. Just...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
Head Strong
How Psychology is Revolutionizing War
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II. Changes in the world's political landscape coupled with radical advances in the technology of war will greatly alter how militaries...
by Michael D. Beil
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“An atmospheric late-1930s adventure with old-time cinematic appeal. Fans of fast-paced, far-fetched action will lap it up as enthusiastically as Sam swallows his favorite brand of sardines.” —Kirkus Reviews
Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear...