Svoboda: 34 books

Book cover of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan

by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World War II [Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. Then he dropped a...
Book cover of Great American Desert
by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

Water, its use and abuse, trickles through Great American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie. In “Dutch Joe,” the eponymous hero sees the future...
Book cover of Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth
by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

The Nuer are a cattle herding people who live along the Nile. Although only a half million in population, they were made world famous by anthropologist E. Evans Pritchard's classic "The Nuer." Song is the art form most suited to their harsh climate and semi-nomadic existence. Cleaned the Crocodile's...
Book cover of What Makes a Hero?

What Makes a Hero?

The Surprising Science of Selflessness

by Elizabeth Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

An entertaining investigation into the biology and psychology of why we sacrifice for other people Researchers are now applying the lens of science to study heroism for the first time. How do biology, upbringing, and outside influences intersect to produce altruistic and heroic behavior? And...
Book cover of Anything That Burns You

Anything That Burns You

A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet

by Terese Svoboda, Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

The first full-length biography of Lola Ridge, a trailblazer for women, poetry, and human rights far ahead of her time This rich and detailed account of the life and world of Lola Ridge, poet, artist, editor, and activist for the cause of women's rights, workers' rights, racial equality and social...
Book cover of The Lord Is My Shepherd
by Melannie Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Psalm 23 is one of the most cherished and frequently recited prayers of all times. And it is as relevant for Catholics today as it was when it was first uttered many centuries ago. In the hands of Melannie Svoboda, its words and images take on powerful new meanings about forgiveness, healing, trust...
Book cover of A Drink Called Paradise
by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

When a copywriter is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after helping a soft drink commercial shoot, she uncovers a terrible secret that eventually drives her to the brink of insanity. Svoboda's stunning novel, frighteningly mysterious and complex, deals with many themes: a child's accidental...
Book cover of Tin God
by Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006

“This is God,” the novel begins, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere.Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass. Four hundred years later, a male go-go dancer flings a bag...
Book cover of Understanding John Updike
by Frederic Svoboda, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932–2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit,...
Book cover of My Antonia
by Willa Cather, Terese Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

Beloved American novelist Willa Cather’s nostalgic classic about life on the Midwest prairie. Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Ántonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive...
Book cover of Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis
by Jaroslav Peregrin, Vladimír Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. The authors claim that these foundations can not only be established without the need for strong metaphysical assumptions, but also without hypostasizing logical...
Book cover of Missoula
by Stan B. Cohen, Svoboda Collection at the Northern Rockies Heritage Center
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008

Missoula began in 1860 as Hellgate Village, a trading post located about 4 miles west of what is now downtown. In 1864, the construction of a mill powered by water diverted from Rattlesnake Creek drew residents of Hellgate to the new town, and the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883 assured...
Book cover of The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java
by Fred Long, Dhruv Mohindra, Dean F. Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

  “In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn’t mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices...
Book cover of Magnetic Techniques for the Treatment of Materials
by Jan Svoboda
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007

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