Michael Gordon: 60 books
Moments That Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare
A Guide for Family Members
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
I want to do the right thing. She was a wonderful mother, and deserves only that.
This common refrain comes from children of aged, ill parents. Families struggle with decisions, confronting the inevitable while providing parents with love and care. Modern medicine often offers endless treatmentsbut...
Dragon's Breath
Emotions & Feelings, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
*What happens when a Dragon doesn't brush his teeth? *Well...We all heard about the ''dragon's breath''. That's why learning proper dental care is really important for a little boy and his friend Dragon Joe.
Here's what readers are already saying about this amazing children book about health:
"This...
Late-Stage Dementia
Promoting Comfort, Compassion, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
I want to provide the best care possible. The suffering has gone on for a long time, and I want to be sure the end stage is as comfortable as possible. This common sentiment is expressed by both health care professionals responsible for caring for frail elders experiencing the later stages of dementia...
Brooklyn Beginnings
A Geriatrician’S Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Helicopter evacuations, teaching West Bank Arab nursing students, life and death medical decisions, aging Holocaust survivors, heart-breaking ethical decisions -- Brooklyn Beginnings immerses the reader in the life stories of Dr. Michael Gordon who helped forge contemporary Geriatrics in his adopted...
Karmic Management
What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Readable in fifty-eight minutes: Traditional Eastern wisdom and real-life business experience come together in this brief and practical guide, which offers a step-by-step plan that will help readers adopt a more successful way of working and living.
KARMIC MANAGEMENT is a little book with a...
Parenting Your Parents
Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Since the last edition in 2006, much has happened in the field of eldercare. There is now an increasing awareness of the complex challenges posed by the expanding aging population in North America. When our parents reach a certain age and have difficulty coping, we find ourselves wondering how to...
7-10 Split
My Journey As America's Whitest Black Kid
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
This critically acclaimed memoir chronicles the greatest social engineering experiment in American history. At the time, none of its participants were remotely aware of their status as lab rats. They were kids living behind walls, often ringed with barbed wire---ubiquitous signs warning of entry to...
The Infamous Burke and Hare
Serial Killers and Resurrectionists of Nineteenth Century Edinburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo...
Rusty's War
A Battle of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This is the heart-wrenching story of the author's mother, diagnosed with the fatal brain disorder---Alzheimer's. Together, she, and her eight-year-old dachshund, Rusty, confront the harrowing challenges of this powerful degenerative brain disease, in near total anonymity as they shut themselves off...
Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution
Process, Politics and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK Constitution is much contested. Changes in the architecture of the UK Constitution, diminishing academic reverence for the doctrine, and a more expansive vision of the judicial role, all present challenges to the relevance,...
by R. Michael Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London’s East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year, another in 1888, and two more in 1889. He resumed...
Horror-Legionen 2
Anthologie
Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Willkommen im düstersten Bereich der Phantastik, dem Horror. Bevor du dich in die Geschichten stürzt, möchte ich dich etwas fragen: Was ist Horror für dich? Aus welchen Elementen muss eine Geschichte bestehen, damit sie für dich zum Genre gehört? Bedarf sie übersinnlicher Phänomene oder doch...
Degrade and Destroy
The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2021
A top D.C. journalist tells the inside story of the U.S. war against the Islamic State
When the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq in 2011, President Obama took credit for keeping his promise to end one war. As savage violence flared in Syria that very same year, he resisted calls to intervene...
by Western Fictioneers, L. J. Washburn, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
A collection of twenty-nine tales of the Old West featuring previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as James Reasoner, Douglas Hirt, McKendree Long, and Michael R. Ritt. Edited by award winning author, L. J. Washburn. Western Fictioneers is the only writers’ organization devoted...