Daniel Arnold: 14 books
Early Days in the Range of Light
Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins
It’s 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open...
Salt to Summit
A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This account of one man’s trek as he tests the limits of his endurance is “a spellbinding journey” (Page Stegner, author of Winning the Wild West).
Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley, the lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere. Mount Whitney rises...
Snowblind
Stories of Alpine Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A “gripping” collection of short fiction about mountain climbers driven by risk and adventure (Sacramento Bee).
From varied backgrounds with diverse perspectives, the characters who populate Snowblind don’t feel quite whole until they’ve summited some of the world’s most dangerous peaks—an...
by Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Daniel Sperling;Deborah Gordon;Arnold Schwarzenegger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At present, there are roughly a billion motor vehicles in the world. Within twenty years, the number will double to 2 billion, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in...
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr] Tom Swift and His Wireless Message [Victor Appleton] Gulliver of Mars Edwin [Lester Arnold] The Lust of Hate Guy [Newell Boothby] Cabin...
by Philip K. Dick, Milton Lesser, Edmond Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages....
Schaffen wir das?
Ein Plädoyer für mehr Offenheit in der Flüchtlingspolitik
Language: German
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Deutschland und der Flüchtlingsstrom – "Wir schaffen das", sagt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die mehr als 20 zumeist prominenten Autoren des Buches setzen sich in nachdenklichen, teils sehr bewegenden und mitfühlenden Texten gedanklich mit dem Neuen und Fremden, den Problemen, Sorgen...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
by Brian Berenbach, Juergen Kazmeier, Arnold Rudorfer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Proven Software & Systems Requirements Engineering Techniques
"Requirements engineering is a discipline used primarily for large and complex applications. It is more formal than normal methods of gathering requirements, and this formality is needed for many large applications. The...
by Abdullah Bahri, Daniel Pipes, David Claydon
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
In this ground-breaking Australian book, a diverse group of international writers, scholars and commentators shed light on some of the most pressing human rights and public policy challenges of our time. Contributors include thinkers of Muslim background with extensive personal experience in developing...
by Anett Arnold, Christin Schäfer, Lea Baumgart
Language: German
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Verfluchte Städte. Verlassen liegen sie da. Niemand hat sie seit Jahren betreten. Viele Gebäude sind bereits verfallen. Dicke Staub- oder Schmutzschichten überziehen alles. In den Häusern findet man zum Teil aber noch alles so vor, wie es verlassen wurde. Warum? Was ist dort geschehen? Die Wahrheit,...