Robert Leonard: 39 books
by Robert Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of rich...
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Drawing on a wealth of archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions...
Because It Is So Beautiful
Unraveling the Mystique of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Reid has been previously reviewed or interviewed by publications such as Outside, New Mexico Magazine, Albuquerque Journal, and more
Reid has contributed to the following publications: Harper’s, America West, The Progressive, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Hayden’s Ferry Review,...
The Real Dixieland Book Songbook
C Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
(Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition to new generations of players in all styles...
The News About the News
American Journalism in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?
Leonard Downie Jr., executive...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
The Christmas Conundrum (20 Thrillers in One Edition)
Murder Mysteries & Intriguing Stories of Suspense, Horror and Thrill for the Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Christmas holidays are the best time to enjoy some good mystery tales in the snuggling comfort of your home and family. This edition hence brings to you some of the finest literary gems together in one place to satisfy your cravings for some suspense. Enjoy: A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy) The...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “ON A DARK CHRISTMAS NIGHT – 25 Holiday Spook Classics & Murder Mysteries” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The holidays are the best time to enjoy Christmas mysteries and classic ghost tales (for the fans of the...
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door
Thirty Poems of Hafez
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
One of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience. There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn to sing Hafez poems in the third grade, and almost every...
by Aaron Michael Ritchey, Adrienne Dellwo, Che Gilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A multi-author collection of eighteen original superhero tales ranging from the dark to the hysterical to the downright bizarre, including 2016 Aurora Award nominee "Super Frenemies" by Stephen Kotowych.
“And Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper” by Leonard Apa: A Golden Age tale of an actor...
by Stella August, Tracy Bear, Robyn Bourgeois
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous...
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The holidays are the best time to enjoy Christmas mysteries and classic ghost tales (for the fans of the genre) in the snuggling comfort of your home. This edition hence brings to you some of the finest literary gems together in one place to satisfy your cravings for some suspense. Enjoy: The Christmas...
The Real Dixieland Book Songbook
B-Flat Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
(Fake Book). You don't have to be from below the Mason-Dixon line to enjoy this primo collection for B-flat instruments of nearly 250 Dixieland tunes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * California, Here I Come * Dinah * Down by the Riverside *...