Erik: 1534 books
Alternatives to Capitalism
Proposals for a Democratic Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not difficult to list capitalism’s myriad injustices. But is there a preferable and workable alternative?
Alternatives...
State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
Few ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining...
The Adversity Advantage
Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From the world’s foremost blind athlete and a Harvard Business School lecturer comes an inspiring, seven-step program for converting both mundane and dramatic struggles into the kind of fuel that spur personal and professional greatness.
Adversity is one of the most potent forces in life....
The Wanderer
The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, thirty eight years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves to...
The Atlas of Food
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.
By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture,...
by Erik Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Erik Palmer presents an approach to teaching long-neglected but essential language arts that is aligned with the Common Core but focused on preparing K–12 students in all subject areas for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.
The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Why Things That Go Right Sometimes Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to...
by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Employing the same informational approach Erik Seedhouse used in "SpaceX" and "Bigelow Aerospace", this new book familiarizes space enthusiasts with the company XCOR Aerospace and examines the design of the two-seater Lynx. The new spaceplane's low weight and high octane fuel...
Branding Yourself
How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Want a new job or career? Need to demonstrate more value to customers or employers? Use today’s hottest social media platforms to build the powerful personal brand that gets you what you want! In this completely updated book, Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy help you use social media to and networking...
Own Any Occasion
Mastering the Art of Speaking and Presenting
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The world is your stage. Own it.
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Great speaking does not come easy. But even the wallflowers among us can’t avoid speaking forever. InOwn Any Occasion, speaker and educator Erik Palmer taps into his vast experience to simplify the process of extraordinary speaking, whether you’re...
S.H.A.P.E.
Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Rick Warren’s bestselling book The Purpose Driven® Life describes God’s five purposes for every Christian. Now Erik Rees helps you discover God’s unique purpose for your life based on the way God has shaped you. He made you marvelously unique for a reason. Tap into that reason and into the...
Only You Can Be You
21 Days to Making Your Life Count
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Based on the psychological tenet that it takes twenty-one days for a new behavior to become a habit, Erik Rees presents twenty-one daily principles for reminding readers of their individual importance.
“Make your life count.” These four simple words spoken at the funeral of a four-month-old...
by Jason Erik Lundberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
"Jason Erik Lundberg's stories, launched from the real world on a trajectory to the surreal, fuse the idle daydream with the desperate heart. You should read them." —John Kessel, author of The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
Strange superheroes and the...