Paul Alexander: 68 books

Baltimore Orioles, infamous bootleggers, novelists of the Jazz Age and famous musicians have all wandered and lived among the stately Victorian homes and vibrant "painted ladies" of Charles Village. From its beginning as a series of country villas for the wealthy elite of Baltimore to escape the crush...

Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a...

Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages....

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction,...

Fliehende Karpfen, brennende Gänse, zähe Verwandte, entblößte Weihnachtsmänner, verweigerte Geschenke, einstürzende Christbäume, plötzliche Trennungen, gemeuchelte Kirchgänger, Teufel, Engel und Blitzeis ... Die schönsten Weihnachtskatastrophen, erzählt von: Sibylle Berg * Hans Zippert...

Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...

La società e la storia NICOLA ANTONETTI Prefazione. “Sociologia” una cultura per la democrazia ANDREA BIXIO Introduzione Sturzo e la tradizione storica LUIGI STURZO La Sociologia GABRIELE DE ROSA Il tempo e l'opera di Luigi Sturzo PIETRO SCOPPOLA Intellettuali in una società in trasformazione:...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

The exceptional mechanical, optical, surface and biocompatibility properties of nanodiamond have gained it much interest. Exhibiting the outstanding bulk properties of diamond at the nanoscale in the form of a film or small particle makes it an inexpensive alternative for many applications. Nanodiamond...

Written by a team of business and fi nance experts, Starting & Running a Business All-In-One For Dummies is a complete guide to every aspect of setting up and growing a successful business. Featuring straight-talking advice on everything from business planning and marketing, managing staff and...

In 2005, recent graduates Alex Herman, Paul Matthews, and Andrew Feindel realized they werent entirely sure where they were going in life. Then they had an idea. Over the next two years, they interviewed 70 well-known Canadians and asked them how they got started. The answers they found were not always...

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...

“Ask a mechanical, structural, or electrical engineer how far they would get without a heavy reliance on a firm mathematical foundation, and they will tell you, ‘not far.’ Yet so-called software engineers often practice their art with little or no idea of the mathematical underpinnings of what...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anfang Februar 1909 begann der Unternehmer Arthur Müller (1871-1935) in Berlin gemeinsam mit dem späteren Direktor des Flugplatzes Johannisthal, Major a. D. Georg von Tschudi (1862-1928) und Kapitän...