Erik: 1534 books

No final do século XIX os Estados Unidos eram uma nação jovem e orgulhosa, ávida por afirmar seu lugar entre as maiores potências mundiais. Nesse contexto, a Feira de Chicago de 1893 teve papel fundamental: com o objetivo de apresentar a maior e mais impressionante exposição de inovações...

In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships...

From the novella: "It started like any other night. I was high and drinking PBR. Dad was high and plotting hate and discontent. We sat in his garage. I sandblasted engine parts while keeping an eye on the Monday night game out of the corner of my eye. Chargers-Raiders. I was a Raiders...

A large part of our everyday communication involves argumentation and reasoning—for example, when we want to persuade others, make good purchasing decisions, or analyze the messages we receive from advertisers and politicians. But how well do we prepare students for these tasks? Can they critically...

In the fully updated Fourth Edition of their best-selling guide, Surviving Your Dissertation, Kjell Erik Rudestam and Rae R. Newton answer questions concerning every stage of the dissertation process, including selecting a suitable topic, conducting a literature review, developing a research question,...

Lately we, mankind, have made direct observations of black holes merging. This puts constrains on our theory of gravity, which has some slight error in it. Which has been known for a while since it can not explain gravity for black holes. Therefore I publish this text about the constraint and my suggestion of how to solve it.

Over a year has passed since the events in Blackwater Forest. Events that exposed the darkness hiding in Cainswell and Edom County as a whole. Sheriff Nate Lewis hoped the tragedy was behind him. Chalk it up to a bunch of crazy killers living in the woods and move on.   But things happen...

An ex-cop with a dark past... A heroin addict looking for redemption... A hit man with a God-complex... All on a collision course in a forsaken land. Without warning, an outbreak strikes viciously. The people infected regress into primal killing machines. Crazies, zombies, abominations. The names...

A fallen angel trapped in human flesh that want's to bring about the end of the world... A rogue CIA agent that has survived several encounters with demons but is looking for more trouble... A CIA Director who still doesn't believe any of this crap but wants to protect humanity... A Professor and...

Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, Religion and Politics will be welcomed by political scientists and historians alike. In this work, Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi employ a Weberian approach, underlining the social consequences of religious beliefs, to...

The small town of Serene, once part of the untamed Canadian wilderness, now provides re-found hope, inspiration, and tranquility to the thousands of annual visitors, but that wasn't always the case. Jim, Karen, Ron, and Cindy were the best of friends.  They all had a true passion for the great...

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature...

Mindfulness involves learning to be more aware of life as it unfolds moment by moment, even if these moments bring us difficulty, pain or suffering. This is a challenge we will all face at some time in our lives, and which health professionals face every day in their work. The Mindfulness-Based Compassionate...

I lived for two years in a dusty village near the coast of Kenya, East Africa. I went with some thought of bringing change to the Duruma people, but in the end I was changed as much or more than anyone else. Each chapter of "The Trees Were Spinning" tells a short story or two from my time...