Silverman: 413 books
The Crime Numbers Game
Management by Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited...
Rogue Mobster
The Untold Story of Mark Silverman The New England Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Co-written by Mark Silverman with Scott Deitche, Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia...
by Stephen M. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Passage to India. Stephen M. Silverman spent the better part of a year meeting with Lean to secure firsthand information...
by Nancy Cole Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Carol Childs is in the middle of one of the biggest stories of her life. Her daughter Cate has returned from college with a boyfriend in tow. A photographer who police suspect to be The Model Slayer, responsible for the murder of three young women.
Not since the Hillside Strangler has Los Angeles...
Unleash Your Dreams
Tame Your Hidden Fears and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2008
Advance praise for UNLEASH YOUR DREAMS
"Michael Silverman is a brilliant and deeply compassionate psychologist whose book gives all of us hope for clarity and positive momentum in achieving our dreams. His understanding and practical methodology offer a path out of the woods of unconscious...
by Nancy Cole Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
“Room for Doubt, Nancy Cole Silverman’s latest addition to the Carol Childs Mysteries, grips a reader from the first page, offering an addictive mix of wit and suspense. Silverman is a master at crafting ripped-from-the-headlines storylines that feature a smart, appealing protagonist. Room for...
What Color Is Your Dog?
Train Your Dog Based on His Personality "Color"
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
This exciting dog training book is based on the original techniques of Hollywood dog trainer and Animal Planet’s Good Dog U host, Joel Silverman. In What Color Is Your Dog? Silverman presents his groundbreaking color-coding technique, developed over his thirty-year career training dogs for film,...
The Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean...
by Jason H. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who became U.S. citizens with the annexation of Texas and the Mexican...
Who's Better, Who's Best in Coaching?
Setting the Record Straight on the Top 50 NFL Coaches in History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Ranking the best coaches in NFL history is no easy task. How do we decide which coach had a bigger on-field impact? Or the best tactical skills, both defensively and offensively? Not to mention measuring the strength of what a coach does behind the scenes, how he motivates his players, or how he keeps...
Leonardo's Lost Princess
One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective story
In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown...
Einstein's Refrigerator
And Other Stories from the Flip Side of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Steve Silverman was looking for a way to add some spice to his high school lectures when he realized that weird and bizarre true-life stories would capture his students' attention. In fact, they worked so well that the science teacher then began posting his discoveries to his own Web site, which he...
The Dialectic of Essence
A Study of Plato's Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the middle period dialogues, the Phaedo and the...
Who's Better, Who's Best in Football?
Setting the Record Straight on the Top 65 NFL Players of the Past 65 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Who are the best quarterbacks in NFL history? How about running backs? Wide receivers? How can we objectively rate the performance of individual defensive players? And how can we make reasonable judgments about players at different positions and from different eras? Who is the greatest football player...