Solomon: 694 books
Living with Nietzsche
What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2003
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent--never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought....
The Noonday Demon
An Atlas Of Depression
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly...
by Norman Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores how the Jewish religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible. This Very Short...
Leading Successful Change
8 Keys to Making Change Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Why do as many as 75% of change initiatives fail?
We live in an era where constant change is the norm rather than the exception. Given globalization, increased competition, and constant technological turnover, no organization can run in place: change is not optional. However, the sad fact is...
A Better Way to Think About Business
How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1999
Is business ethics a contradiction in terms? Absolutely not, says Robert Solomon. In fact, he maintains that sound ethics is a necessary precondition of any long-term business enterprise, and that excellence in business must exist on the foundation of values that most of us hold dear. Drawing on twenty...
Capitalism
An Analysis and Summary of Adam Smith’S Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Political liberty and the free enterprise system are intimately connected, and this concept was first explored at length in Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations, which was published March 9, 1776.
In Capitalism, author Frank Solomon provides a detailed introduction of Smiths ideas, and he presents extensive...
by Brian Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Once the second-largest steam locomotive builder in the U.S., American Locomotive Company (Alco) produced 75,000 locomotives, among them such famous examples as the 4-6-4 Hudsons and 4-8-4 Niagaras built for the New York Central, and the 4-6-6-4 Challengers and 4-8-8-4 Big Boys built for the Union...
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would reach the size of this volume. In order, however, to present all the facts which have been communicated to him, it has seemed necessary to extend it to its present length.
Many of the statements...
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by...
The Reckoning
Searching for Meaning with the Father of the Sandy Hook Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s...
by Solomon Northup
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2014
»Zwölf Jahre als Sklave« (»Twelve Years A Slave«) ist die bewegende Autobiografie eines frei geborenen schwarzen Amerikaners, der entführt und versklavt wurde, ehe ihm endlich die Flucht gelang. Solomon Northup lebt mit Frau und Kindern in Saratoga im Bundesstaat New York und hält sich mit kleinen...
Swept Away
A Time Travel Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
From Kamery Solomon, #1 bestselling genre author and creator of the bestselling series The God Chronicles, comes SWEPT AWAY, a time travel romance fraught with danger and secrets on the high seas!
“Amazing! The best way I can think to describe it is Pirates of the Caribbean meets Outlander!...
Photography after Photography
Gender, Genre, History
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, *Photography after Photography *is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly...
America's Water and Wastewater Crisis
The Role of Private Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry. As more water infrastructure shifts from public- to private-sector control, vendors, consultants, and facilities are taking on more importance. Lewis D. Solomon presents an historical overview of water supply...