Michael George: 163 books
How to Build a House
A Practical, Common-Sense Guide to Residential Construction
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In How to Build a House, author and professional engineer George Michael Rentz, PE is informative and entertaining while taking the mystery out of residential construction. With more than thirty-five years in the construction industry, Rentz provides an overview of the information necessary when you...
Dundurn Vietnam War Library Bundle
Guerrilla Nation / Indochina Now and Then / Cross-Border Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietnam itself. The three books in this bundle cover different aspects of the war and the region, from Michael...
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
Transcending Racial Barriers
Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide. In Transcending Racial Barriers, Michael Emerson and George Yancey offer a fresh perspective on how to combat racial division. They document the historical...
Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability
Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
“How can I create an innovation engine that will consistently deliver substantial organic growth?”
This question is the number-one issue for most CEOs and senior executives today. Innovation is a critical driver of organic growth, yet based on the authors' research, only a small percent...
by Michael R. Trimble, Mark George
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Biological psychiatry has dominated psychiatric thinking for the past 40 years, but the knowledge base of the discipline has increased substantially more recently, particularly with advances in genetics and neuroimaging. The third edition of Biological Psychiatry has been thoroughly updated taking...
Talking Appalachian
Voice, Identity, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...
Zügig ins Jenseits
Mörderische Geschichten für Bahnfahrer
Language: German
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Mord in vollen Zügen - die etwas andere Reiselektüre. 'Die Bahn macht mobil' und die Bahn ist ein nicht mehr wegzudenkendes Fortbewegungsmittel. Doch vielen Bahnfahrern mag schon mal ein mörderischer Gedanke während der Fahrt gekommen sein. Und zwar nicht nur, weil 'außergewöhnlich hohes Betriebsaufkommen'...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
by Sergei Kopeikin, Michael Efroimsky, George Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This authoritative book presents the theoretical development of gravitational physics as it applies to the dynamics of celestial bodies and the analysis of precise astronomical observations. In so doing, it fills the need for a textbook that teaches modern dynamical astronomy with a strong emphasis...
Beyond Austerity
Reforming the Greek Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.
More than eight years after the global financial crisis began, the economy of Greece shows little sign of recovery,...
The Fourth World
An Indian Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism that has long been out of print. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist...
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study....