Weinstock: 30 books
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
Sweet Celebrations
The Art of Decorating Beautiful Cakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
In Sweet Celebrations the woman InStyle called "New York's reigning cake diva" shares her recipes, designs, techniques, and tips in a gloriously illustrated book.
Bon Appétit called master baker and decorator Weinstock "the Leonardo da Vinci of wedding cakes," and her stunningly original creations...
Rangers vs. Islanders
Denis Potvin, Mark Messier, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know about New York?s Greatest Hockey Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The intrastate rivalry between the Islanders and the Rangers is like no other in the NHL. Playing in the same league and with home rinks mere miles from one another, these two teams face off against each other multiple times a season. With devoted fans on either side backing their personal hometown...
by Neil Weinstock Netanel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox...
by Jerrold J. Weinstock
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Explore the Wonders... Face the Reality
The medical definition of INSULT is: to cause some kind of physical or mental injury. Through the eyes of this psychiatrist and his raw, existential passion for the planet, a web of insult is untangled to expose environmental degradation we face today,...
NeuroKinetic Therapy
An Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
NeuroKinetic Therapy is based on the premise that when an injury has occurred, certain muscles shut down or become inhibited, forcing other muscles to become overworked. This compensation pattern can create pain or tightness. By applying light pressure that the client then resists, the practitioner...
by Robert Weinstock
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This book by Robert Weinstock was written to fill the need for a basic introduction to the calculus of variations. Simply and easily written, with an emphasis on the applications of this calculus, it has long been a standard reference of physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians. The author begins...
by Weinstock, Daniel M.
Language: French
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: May 26, 2011
La société a engendré ces dernières années une demande très importante pour la gouvernance éthique de plusieurs domaines, de la médecine au politique, des affaires à l’éducation. L’objet de ce livre est d’exposer les principaux obstacles qui se présentent à l’éthicien et de proposer...
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan
Spoiler Warnings
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt...
The Lovecraftian Poe
Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
From Maimonides to Microsoft
The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them. Jewish copyright law owes its origins to a reprinting ban that the Rome rabbinic court issued for three books of Hebrew grammar in 1518. It continues...
Copyright
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment...
The Vampire Film
Undead Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organised by a handful of governing principles that help make sense...
by Debra G. Weinstock
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Taking notice of a tree, a child learns a new gratitude for nature’s beauty.