Vincent Michael: 36 books
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
The Real Tales of Hoffmann
Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach’s...
Psycho Thrill - A Collection of Chilling Tales
Compilation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
-- PSYCHO THRILL is a series of horror novellas - from classic ghost story to psychological thriller and dark fantasy. This edition is a compilation of five haunting novellas. -- Christian Endres, The Beast Within: Jackson Ellis is a bouncer in Seattle. But deep within, he fosters a hideous beast....
No Way Out?
Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. government has significantly expanded its role in economy, resulting in new legislation and both public and private policy overhauls. But these hasty efforts to buoy the economy may ultimately do more harm than good. In No Way Out?, Vincent R....
Carbone's Cookbook
Old-World Elegance and the Best Italian Food in the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
While Italian restaurants are popular throughout the United States, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut make up the part of the country most associated with the great ones. And one of the best is Carbone's in Hartford, Connecticut.
Founded sixty-five years ago, Carbone's is Hartford's oldest...
Self Enquiry
On Being You. A Journey into Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In stripping away the flowery language, the sugar coating so to speak, the author is aware that he is presenting Self Enquiry as the challenging Practice it is designed to be, directly, "in the raw". But then this will take you to an important question: Who or what is being challenged? What is it within...
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
Hell No
Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
“Compelling and useful reading” for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America’s leading constitutional rights group (Booklist).
In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters,...
by Michael Mr. Marrese, Mark Mr. Lutz, Tapio Mr. Saavalainen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1995
Four papers analyze the process of transition to a market economy in the Baltics, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia through early 1995.
Multi-Dimensional Education
A Common Sense Approach to Data-Driven Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
A comprehensive guide to data-driven school improvement
Look beyond student test scores with a practical and multidimensional data gathering approach. The authors detail the steps for identifying, collecting, analyzing, and using data as a basis for making instructional and schoolwide decisions....
Patient Engagement
Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.
Bumps in the Road
A Horror Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Roads have been around for centuries, allowing mankind a convenient path to arrive at their destination—be it a lengthy vacation getaway with family or merely to their own inviting home after an exhausting day at work. These roadway treks can bring with them a lifetime of memories.
But not...
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
Professional Lives, Personal Struggles
Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
This edited volume illuminates critical research issues through the particular lens of homelessness, bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, from an array of disciplines and perspectives, to explore this condition of marginalization and the ethical dilemmas that arise within it....