Eisner: 58 books
Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Knitting Socks from Around the World
25 Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
This book collects 25 fantastic patterns for socks inspired by knitting traditions from around the world. Patterns from top designers including Star Athena, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Candace Eisner Strick, Chrissy Gardiner, Janel Laidman and Anna Zilboorg are featured, along with an introduction from Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks.
Bi
Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"A groundbreaking exploration of bisexual politics by a revolutionary thinker" (Publishers Weekly) provides the missing piece of the puzzle for readers who identify as bisexual
Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized,...
Regulatory Politics in an Age of Polarization and Drift
Beyond Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970. Without discounting the importance of these kinds of events, change often assumes more gradual and less visible forms. But how...
by Tom Barone, Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Arts Based Research isideal for students, researchers, and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book's...
The Making of a European Constitution
Judges and Law Beyond Constitutive Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence;...
The Crusader
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
A knight possessed by demons, an ambitious monk skilled in exorcism, and a bloody Crusade that ends in a terrible siege lie at the heart of Michael Alexander Eisner’s action-packed medieval adventure of Christian warriors and Muslim infidels in the Holy Land.
Francisco de Montcada, the young...
Robert's Rules of Order
The Standard Guide to Parliamentary Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This definitive edition of the original "Robert's" presents rules of order, motions, debate, conduct of business, and adjournment. All problems of conducting a successful meeting smoothly and fairly are resolved.
The Freedom Line
The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved.
As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions...
MacArthur's Spies
The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author of Masters of Sex
A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
by Howard Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
The Third Edition of Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management enables readers to manage the design, development, and engineering of systems effectively and efficiently. The book both defines and describes the essentials of project and systems engineering management and, moreover, shows...
Managing Complex Systems
Thinking Outside the Box
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Nine innovative methods to think outside the box and solve complex system problems
Managing Complex Systems provides specific tools and guidance needed to be a more creative and innovative thinker. Following the author's methodology, the reader will be better able to devise and implement nontraditional...
Swallowed Alive
The Story of Prophet Yunus (As) and the Whale
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
To all the Muslim children and non-Muslim children who read this story about Yunus (AS) or any of the stories about the Prophets, may you be inspired to follow their righteous and well-mannered example. May you also be inspired to make a difference in uniting the Muslim Ummah (nation) and to encourage...