Schmidt: 1956 books

On the dystopian isle of Junction, those occupying the foundation slums of the Rat Warrens live a hard life shrouded in near-perpetual darkness. Fen Tunk is one such unfortunate youth. He’s a scavenger and a gang runner, who might have just found his fortunes changing after he snatches a...

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...

Ava's day started out just like every other. She had no idea that when her best friend, Ashley, told her they were going out for a "girl's night" that her very normal life was about to take a turn that she never saw coming. She runs to the woods to escape the reality that she doesn't want...

When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canadian history, or the dashing and handsome Mounties portrayed in over two hundred Hollywood movies. Women were thought to be afraid of guns and incapable...

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...

Millions of people bowl yet few know much about bowling’s rich history. For more than 25 years, J.R. “Dr. Jake” Schmidt has been recounting that history in Bowlers Journal International with vitality and detail. This collection of 90 of his classic articles presents portraits of Dick Weber,...

Executive chairman en ex-CEO van Google Eric Schmidt en de voormalige SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg kwamen meer dan tien jaar geleden naar Google als ervaren managers uit de technologiesector. Toen stond Google al bekend als een bedrijf dat dingen anders deed, wat de visionaire – en vaak tegendraadse...

Here is my story, unlikely and unvarnished, of life with Big Green – that is, my nearly three-decade relationship with one of the biggest environmental groups in the U.S., the National Wildlife Federation. Along the way, including thirteen years on NWF’s staff, I saw environmentalism from the...

Designed to provide researchers clear and informative insight into techniques of meta-analysis, the Third Edition of Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings is the most comprehensive text on meta-analysis available today. It is the only book that presents a full and...

When Joely Anderson's past catches up with her at the Palekaiko Beach Hotel, she's ready to turn in her housekeeping apron and go on the run again. Except she's rebuilt her life in paradise with good friends, a decent job, and most of all -- she never got to act on the crush she's had on the hunky...

A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...

What is a sonata? Literally translated, it simply means 'instrumental piece'. It is the epitome of instrumental music, and is certainly the oldest and most enduring form of 'pure' and independent instrumental composition, beginning around 1600 and lasting to the present day. Schmidt-Beste analyses...

There exists an underlying tendency in the geek world to be skeptical about social media, especially about its role in anything serious or substantial. Perhaps that is only natural, given that your average geek has fine-tuned analytical abilities and antennae that are always up to detect snake oil. And...

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