Kuehn: 35 books
by Manfred Kuehn
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated...
by Birgit S Kuehn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Meet Pauli—a cute, little broccoli who finds himself alone and forgotten in the field after the fall harvest. Pauli’s sad state fatefully changes, however, when a friendly bird offers to take him on a trip across the globe. Who ever said that a broccoli’s life is boring? Join Pauli...
Agents of Innovation
The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The author examines the influence of the General Board of the U.S. Navy as an agent of innovation in the years between the world wars. A formal body established by the secretary of the Navy, the General Board served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval limitations...
America's First General Staff
A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the U.S. Navy, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The General Board of the Navy was a uniquely American strategic planning organization with few analogs at the time of its establishment, except perhaps the various components of the Admiralty in Great Britain. It existed from 1900 to 1950. Then, as now, confusion reigned over what sort of fleet to...
Complicit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick
Two years ago, fifteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor's fancy horse barn. The whole town did. Because Crazy Cate Henry used to be a nice...
Architects' Gravesites
A Serendipitous Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
An illustrated guide to the monumental and non-monumental final resting places of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright.
All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of buildings they have designed. But what about the final spaces that...
An Enemy We Created
The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
To this day, the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined, and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. In An Enemy We Created, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn debunk this myth and...
The Basics of Media Writing
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism,...
Delicate Monsters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family's California vineyard estate. Here, she's meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she's meant to do a lot of things. But it's hard. She's bored. And when Sadie's...
Charm & Strange
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award
When you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .
In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debut Charm & Strange, Andrew Winston Winters is...
The Post-Snowden Era
Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Surveillance is confusing. Should we give up on expecting privacy because we're all being watched, or stop worrying because it's all exaggerated? Actually, neither of those is right. A much better idea is to find a book that is sane, well researched and easy to read, so you understand, don't fear...
Perfection
The Abandoned Key
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Are you equipped to reach perfection? God has called his people to a powerful way of living. We are meant to be fully alive in the authority God has ordained. Perfection is a clarion call to God-empowered righteousness, to remember who we are in Christ Jesus, and to evaluate God’s expectations for...
by Nandini Pillai Kuehn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this E-short edition from New Mexico 2050, health and health care specialist Nandini Pillai Kuehn examines the complex subject of health in New Mexico. She describes the issues involved in health outcomes for the state—including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and insurance—and how...
by François Grin, Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Insights from the application of economic theories and research methods to the management of linguistic diversity in an era of globalization.
In an era of globalization, issues of language diversity have economic and political implications. Transnational labor mobility, trade, social inclusion...