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Harvard Classics Volume 42
English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
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by Edward L. & Karen J. Underwood with John Pinney
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Branson's wholesome brand of entertainment made it the nation's destination for family fun, but the vacation wonderland can't claim a spotless past. Murder and mischief dogged the town's efforts at respectability from the very beginning. The founder's own brother, Galba Branson, was a prominent member...
by John Maeda, Rebecca J Bermont
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor--with a love of argument for argument's sake and the freedom to experiment--into...
Trainwrecks
How Corporate Reputations Collapse And Managements Attempt to Rebuild Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Every year corporations and individuals stumble into crises that damage and sometimes destroy their reputations. These crises strike companies across the economy in sectors as diverse as banking, manufacturing, oil and gas, food processing, high technology, resource development and professional sport....
The Philosophical I
Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should...
Contested Commonwealths
Essays in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular...
The Last Gentleman of the SAS
A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen – the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of extraordinary gentlemen handpicked for suicidally dangerous missions behind enemy lines in North Africa,...
by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...
Vice
One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer
Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm...
Psychos
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal...
Not just a mirror. Looking for the political theatre today
Performing Urgency 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Der englischsprachige Band Not Just a Mirror setzt sich mit grundlegenden Fragen des politischen Theaters in der Gegenwart auseinander und stellt künstlerisch-politische Strategien und Praktiken von Theatermachern aus aller Welt vor - u. a. Chto Delat, Milo Rau, Kretakör, Faustin Linyekula, Public...
Habits Die Hard
10 Steps to Building Successful Habits
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
We are all creatures of habit and if you make good habits, good habits will make you. This wisdom has been around since ancient times. Aristotle once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Whether they are a positive force in our lives or...
The Idea of the Public Sphere
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...