Eric: 6009 books
by Eric von Hippel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy.
Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly...
by Eric Van Horn
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Little Book of Buddhist Awakening looks at the subtle and elusive questions about awakening, what is also commonly called “enlightenment.” What does it mean to awaken? What are the different ways in which the Buddha described the end of the Noble Eightfold Path? What are common misconceptions...
Cultures Merging
A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes...
by Eric W. Allison, Lauren Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
For both the preservation professional and urban planner, this book shows how preservation is a key to the creation of livable cities. The author Eric Allison, the founder and coordinated of the graduate historic preservation program at Pratt Institute in New York City, offers tools and case studies...
Racism in the Nation's Service
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's...
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern...
Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex...
by Eric Rauchway
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first...
by Eric Cybulski
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Many authors have written about the game of craps using computer simulations, statistics, or probability tables to represent the game outcomes. This book analyzes over 2100 actual rolls of the dice. The data is provided for you to test your own wagering strategies.
“In truth, to only use...
Thoughts of a Scientist, Citizen, and Grandpa on Climate Change
Bridging the Gap Between Scientific and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Global warming has been a subject of great interest to both the scientific community and the general public during the last two decades. The consensus among scientists is that global warming is caused by mans activities. At the same time, however, the publics perceived importance of the global warming...
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
The Human Equation
The Constant in Human Development and Culture from Pre-Literacy to Post-Literacy -- Book 1, The Human Equation Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The first of five books in the groundbreaking new series The Human Equation Toolkit.
Mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four possible positions of humans -- standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling -- as the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity,...
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
"What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four Voyages
In this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin...