Michael Sherman: 15 books
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written—many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre...
Spatial Statistics and Spatio-Temporal Data
Covariance Functions and Directional Properties
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In the spatial or spatio-temporal context, specifying the correct covariance function is fundamental to obtain efficient predictions, and to understand the underlying physical process of interest. This book focuses on covariance and variogram functions, their role in prediction, and appropriate choice...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18
September/October 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn, Sam...
The Finest Hours
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea told by two masterful storytellers.
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril.
In...
Principles of Macroeconomics
Activist vs. Austerity Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
In the years since 2007 the U.S. economy has endured a severe financial crisis, a Great Recession, and continuing heavy unemployment. These events have led to increasing discontent among many people contributing to a substantial vote for Bernie Sanders and the election of Donald Trump. Meanwhile,...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
Loving This Planet
Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist
A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...
The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition)
The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the shipwreck and a harrowing...
Above and Beyond
John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis
During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's...
Seeing Judaism Anew
Christianity's Sacred Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
The Finest Hours (Chapter Book)
The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
by Michael Schindlbeck, Rahul Patwari, Scott C. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Ninety-eight of the chief complaints and disorders you're most likely to encounter in the ED!
A clear, concise guide for clinicians new to the Emergency Department
A Doody's Core Title for 2015!
Written by authors who are practicing emergency physicians and emergency medicine educators,...
by Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Charles L. Wax, Michael E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 2011, and from a high temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of -19, Mississippi has seen its share of weather extremes. In fact, Mississippi's rainfall can be described in terms of "feast or famine." Even during the feast...
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