Eric: 6009 books
by Eric W. Sanderson, Ph.D., Paul E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni...
Down Detour Road
An Architect in Search of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.
I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on...
by Eric Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Award-winning creativity coach and therapist, Eric Maisel, offers the A Little Every Day Deck series to help readers develop a more centered, creative, intelligent life. Each card in the series presents a single idea and a simple exercise to try every day. Readers can use the decks in a variety of ways....
by Eric A. Eliason
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, movie stars, waifs, and, of course, Elvis are recognized icons of the oft-despised, uber-kitsch art form of black velvet painting. In Black Velvet Art author Eric A. Eliason and photographer Scott Squire present a comprehensive overview of this covertly-loved...
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800
A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impression that Florentine culture suddenly died with...
A Journey on My Own
A Youth from Hitler's Germany Strives to Claim His American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
A Journey on My Own tells the story of Eric Vieler, born in America but raised in Hitler's Germany, where he saw the persecution of Jewish neighbors and experienced the bombing of cities. After being expelled from a Nazi-run academy, he crossed battle lines to reach his home. On Easter 1945, he encountered...
On Middle Ground
A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...
Reinventing Philanthropy
A Framework for More Effective Giving
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Several years ago, Eric Friedman decided to donate a substantial percentage of his income to charity. As many people do when making a big decision, he researched the best path he should take to accomplish his goal. After speaking with foundations, consultants, and nonprofit staff members, he found...
Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets
Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation, Portable Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
There has been immense worldwide excitement about the potential of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) businesses to help impoverished societies escape poverty. Unfortunately, many BoP firms are locked in a "survival trap" that keeps them small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Now, Eric Kacou identifies...
On Fire at Work
How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People Without Burning Them Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn’t the ultimate goal—it is merely the starting point. Renowned leadership expert Eric Chester has gone straight to the source—top-tier leaders of the world’s best places to work to...
by Eric Hazan, Kamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ‘democratic consensus’ that has, since...
Imperial Heights
Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center...
Holy Currency Exchange
101 Stories, Songs, Actions, and Visions for Missional and Sustainable Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Eric Law's foundational Holy Currencies (2013) demonstrated a new way ministries can think about the resources needed to do their work in their communities. Law's follow-up book, Holy Currency Exchange, shares a variety of tools for thinking differently about how those resources can mobilize ministries...
The Climate War
True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In The Climate War, Eric Pooley--deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek--does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important...