Schmidt: 1956 books
by Michael Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity.
The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies
Featuring Dave Anthony, Lord Carrett, Dean Haglund, Allan Havey, Laura House, Jackie Kashian, Suzy Nakamura, Greg ... Schmidt, Neil T. Weakley, and Matt Weinhold
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A movie guide for film and comedy fans, by filmmakers and comedians, for the movie lover with a good sense of humor.
Tired of the usual boring, dry movie discussion? The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies is something new. Is it serious movie discussion? Is it funny? Do the writers know what...
Programming Elastic MapReduce
Using AWS Services to Build an End-to-End Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Although you don’t need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop...
Judy and I
My Life with Judy Garland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly...
by William S. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
William S. Schmidt is an associate professor of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in the fi elds of counseling and spirituality. He is the editor of the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health published by Taylor and Francis.
Knicks Don't Click
Isiah Thomas Illustrates How Money Can't Buy You Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. Anatomy of a sports disaster:...
See What I Have Done
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
“One of America’s most notorious murder cases inspires this feverish debut” novel that goes inside the mind of Lizzie Borden (The Guardian).
On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: Someone’s killed Father. The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden...
Making Americans
Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians,...
The Unraveling
Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?
In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam,...
by Max R. Schmidt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2014
“Un pensamiento Para Cada Día” tiene la mira de ayudar a los miembros de Alcohólicos Anónimos en su programa de vivir un día cada vez
Ha sido formulado para aquellos que deseen iniciar cada día con unos minutos de pensamiento, meditación y oración, y para que compartan sus puntos de vista...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.
Martin Buber (1878–1965) has had a tremendous impact on the development of Jewish thought as a highly influential figure in 20th-century philosophy and theology. However, most of his key publications...
by Marlize Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
If you are a parent with a child with Auditory Processing Disorder or want to find out more about Auditory Processing Disorder you can read this book.
My son's signs of Auditory Processing Disorder was there from an early stage on, but he was only diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder...
Color and Money
How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:
* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and...