Erik: 1534 books
Why Fantasy Football Matters
(And Our Lives Do Not)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession
U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working.
In Why Fantasy Football Matters (And...
North Korea under Communism
Report of an Envoy to Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine. What are the reasons behind this peculiar choice of direction? Why did the leaders in Pyongyang pursue a policy abandoned...
by Rush , Erik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks, particularly in America. The book dissects...
Balancing the Books
Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about...
A Focus on Hope
Fifty Resilient Students Speak
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific...
Tradition Digitized
Ancient Poems Flowing in Modern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers.
Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from...
by Keith K Abbott, Erik Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer's dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture,...
by Erik Nordenskiold
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This work, which is here present in the English language, is based on a course of lectures given at the University of Helsingfors, Finland, during the academic year 1916-17. It is the author's intention to present a picture of the development of biological science throughout the ages, viewed in conjunction...
Cry of the Elephant Man
Listening for Man's Voice Above the Herd
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
We are in danger of losing our identities as unique beings created in the image of God. Our culture, not wanting to answer to a higher authority, tries to expel God from the planet but in the process strips off the very image that makes us human. If we officiate at the death of God, we will also be...
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin
A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian...
by Guy Davenport, Erik Reece
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all...
Leben Ist Was Du Daraus Machst
Mache Die Veränderungen Die Du Dir Wünschst
Language: German
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Wenn du irgendetwas in deinem Leben verndern willst, aber keinen persnlichen Coach an deiner Seite hast, und wenn du deinen Traum leben willst; dieses Buch ist fr dich. Es versorgt dich mit der Inspiration die du brauchst, und es leitet dich den ganzen Weg. Alles was du liest und lernst, ber unterschiedliche...
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2017
« Depuis l’enfance, il est notre ami. Et les animaux de ses Fables, notre famille. Agneau, corbeau, loup, mouche, grenouille, écrevisse ne nous ont plus jamais quittés.
Malicieuse et sage compagnie !
Mais que savons-nous de La Fontaine, sans doute le plus grand poète de notre langue française...
Krähenmädchen
Psychothriller - Die Victoria-Bergman-Trilogie 1
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Wie viel Schreckliches kann ein Mensch verkraften, eher er selbst zum Monster wird?
Stockholm. Ein Junge wird tot in einem Park gefunden. Sein Körper zeigt Zeichen schwersten Missbrauchs. Und es bleibt nicht bei der einen Leiche ... Auf der Suche nach dem Täter bittet Kommissarin Jeanette...