Marcus: 2128 books
Famine in North Korea
Markets, Aid, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including...
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these...
Black Citymakers
How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class...
Confronting the Curse
The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status. But the potentially negative impact of natural resources on development of poor countries is captured in the phrase "the resource curse." Instead of success and...
Ali & Ali
The Deportation Hearings
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
In this sequel to the hilarious and hard-hitting The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, the agitprop collaborative team of Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef turns its idiosyncratic brand of political satire to new global realities.
Following the election of...
Smarter Teacher Leadership
Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book shares a fresh vision for school leadership that connects current knowledge from mind, brain, and adult learning research to the process of teacher development and leadership. The authors provide clear steps to enable and inspire teachers to embrace leadership and collaboration...
by Marcus Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
CNC control of milling machines is now available to even the smallest of workshops. This allows designers to be more ambitious and machinists to be more confident of the production of parts, and thereby greatly increase the potential of milling at home.This new accessible guide takes a practical approach...
Around the Tarot in 78 Days: A Personal Journey Through the Cards
A Personal Journey Through the Cards
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Journey into the exciting world of tarot with this comprehensive 78-day course.Uniquely presented in a one-card-per-day format, this workbook provides a solid foundation in tarot—and offers new ways to enrich your life using the wisdom of the cards.
Well-known tarot readers and instructors...
by Marcus Goncalves
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Reviews for the newest volume in The Technical Manager's Survival Guides book series. "Good read. This book is a template for managing complex businesses and contains information that every Asset Manager should know. Highly recommended." --James Willey, P.E., Vice President, Pearl Energy...
by Marcus McCann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
The Hard Return is a broken list of metaphors for the human heart. Or its a troubling elegy for a disposable world. Alternating between loving descriptions of 21st century excess and awkward social situations, Marcus McCanns poems are sincere and ironic, sad and half-joking, often in the same instant.
by Marcus Clapham
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Folk tales and fairy stories from all over the world are collected together in this gorgeous international anthology which brings together 'The Frog Who Became an Emperor' from China, 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' from Norway, and 'Pinocchio' from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen,...
Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation
Fifty Years of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Although it started as a British television show with a small but devoted fan base, Doctor Who has grown in popularity and now appeals to audiences around the world. In the fifty-year history of the program, Doctor Who’s producers and scriptwriters have drawn on a dizzying array of literary sources...
How I Became a Guru
(And other short stories)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
More erotic short stories from Marcus Clark. Eleven stories in all; the first three are sexual, not crude, but certainly R-rated. The other eight stories, range through humourous, satirical, to dramatic. All stories are set in today's world, dealing with today's issues. Interesting, amusing, easy-reading,...
by Marcus Foot
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Guy and Susan are starting a new life on the Island, a tropical paradise in the Caribbean. The Mango Express follows them on their quest to find an apartment. It appears this seemingly mundane task is anything but on the Island.