Eli: 352 books
Exile and Pride
Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness...
by Eli Maor
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that...
by Eli Maor
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view....
Synthetic Socialism
Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple...
Clearly Now, the Rain
A Memoir of Love and Other Trips
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This memoir of a relationship with a self-destructive woman is “as elemental, lyrical and cringe-inducing a love story as they come” (Kirkus Reviews).
Suspenseful, darkly funny, and devastating, this is Eli Hastings’s true story of his troubled, decade-long relationship with his friend Serala....
by Eli Maor, Eugen Jost
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric patterns and theorems,...
by Jonathan Eli
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Murder…drugs…money…are they all connected? That’s what Marshall Jenkins wants to find out as he takes his first case since his wife’s death three months ago. But as he investigates, he starts to wonder if Jenny’s death was also somehow connected. Find out as Marshall tries to discover the Memphis Connection.
The Abyss
Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers...
by Eli Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
I don’t know why I can see the other people, when no one else can. They’ve always been there, flitting between trees, tucked into shadows. I thought they were harmless. But now one of them has crept into my dreams, creating nightmares, stealing sleep, and the only thing standing against it is...
Insurgency Trap
Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of...
The Pricing of Progress
Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
How did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our environment, communities, nation, even self-worth. Eli Cook shows how, and why, we moderns lost sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.
SUPPLEMENT I: Quantum Decision making and Problem Solving
Supplement I for One Thought Experiment: TIME is A Quantum System of Clocks & Anti-Clocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The supplement I is the scientific foundation for any decision making and problem solving environment. There is a universal coordinate system in which all parameters for a decision or a problem are represented for the purpose of evaluating outcomes, any outcomes. Why qQuantum: because it is Time based.
Young Guns on the Sharemarket
Meet Australia's New Generation of Money Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Eli Greenblat is a financial journalist who has followed the careers of Australia's young, talented moneymakers. This book is a fascinating insight into the investing strategies of a selection of money managers -- all extremely successful, all under 40 - and shares with readers the lifestyle this...
by Eli M. Noam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal...