Becker: 1229 books
Thinking in Place
Art, Action, and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning. The book explores places...
by Alfred Döblin, Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Döblins meisterhafter Familien- und EpochenromanEine Witwe zieht nach Berlin und versucht sich dort mit ihren drei Kindern durchzuschlagen. Nach einem gescheiterten Selbstmordversuch richtet sich ihr neu erwachter Ehrgeiz auf die Karriere des ältesten Sohnes. Und tatsächlich gelingt dem Sohn in...
Property Rights (Routledge Revivals)
Philosophic Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments...
TSA Baggage
An Inside Look at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at America's Airports
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Scott Becker spent over 12 years working for the TSA at Chicago’s O’Hare airport and served it in numerous capacities, from baggage screener to manager. He brings to TSA Baggage a wealth of experience and stories that have something for everyone:
•Candid Cameos: Several stories in TSA...
Good Fat Cooking
Recipes for a Flavor-Packed, Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From Top Chef Masters and Iron Chef America contestant, restaurateur, and type 2 diabetic FranklinBecker comes an exciting collection of recipes highlightinggood fats—from sources such as nut oils, oliveoil, fish, and avocados—and their important role inmaintaining good health with delicious flavor....
Creativity in Psychotherapy
Reaching New Heights with Individuals, Couples, and Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Examine the dynamic role of creativity in therapy!
Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals, Couples, and Families examines the nature, role, and importance of creative thinking in counseling and therapy. Authors David K. Carson and Kent W. Becker combine extensive...
The FBI in Latin America
The Ecuador Files
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission,...
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control
Interests, Conflicts, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of...
by Professor Megan Becker-Leckrone
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
Engaged debate among feminist, political, and psychoanalytic thinkers has secured Julia Kristeva's status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. Nevertheless, her precise relevance to the study of literature - the extent to which her theory is specifically a literary...
The Themes of Quine's Philosophy
Meaning, Reference, and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalism and of the linguistic doctrine of logical and mathematical truth, his rejection of the analytic/synthetic...
by Susan Cope Becker
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Sharing Life With A Deaf Dog Is Not Only Possible But Rewarding…especially with the book that has become known as “the deaf dog Bible.”For more than 20 years Living with a Deaf Dog has helped tens of thousands of owners all over the world communicate with and train their deaf dogs. This book...
String Theory and M-Theory
A Modern Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal...
by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Björn Merker, Iain Morley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...
by Lawrence C. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Much discussion of morality presupposes that moral judgments are always, at bottom, arbitrary. Moral scepticism, or at least moral relativism, has become common currency among the liberally educated. This remains the case even while political crises become intractable, and it is increasingly apparent...