Michael E : 776 books
Prayer
We are God’s house of prayer for all nations
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Jesus was referring to the physical temple in Jerusalem, when He quoted the prophet Isaiah, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. As our Lord predicted, that physical temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in the year seventy AD. When Jesus was crucified on the cross, the veil in...
Big Profits from Small Properties
How to Achieve Financial Independence by Investing in Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Todays property and mortgage markets offer some of the most advantageous opportunities of any time in the recent past. This is one of the best times in history to implement a real estate investment strategy. In Big Profits from Small Properties, author Michael E. Heeney presents a step-by-step guide...
Presimetrics
What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issues
Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how the presidents and their administrations are performing, but this analysis always skews...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
The Strategy Paradox
Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most...
by Michael E. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Most of us wish that our parents and grandparents had left more about themselves and what moved them for us to read and talk about today.
In Songs of Crocus Hill, author Michael E. Murphy presents a poetry collection that focuses on memory poemscandle-lit vignettes related to the memoir genre....
The Right Kind of Revolution
Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting...
The Molecule of More
How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them?
Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?
Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are...
by J. Michael Scott, Michael E. Soulé, Keith Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the mdiverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.
by Prof. Mick Price, Dr Matt Spangler, Annie Vénien
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;
Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;
Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as color, flavor and tenderness
Healing the Wounded Giant
Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense...
Structures of Agency
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong"...
by Michael E. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Sonny Tompkins enlisted in the United States Army. He soon discovered that he had a remarkable special ability which the Army was eager to exploit. A whirlwind of events found him a Captain in the O.S.S. by age 20 and killing Nazis behind the lines in occupied Belgium and France. Follow his life and loves in this historical
by Michael E. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Tommy Alvarado has a problem. His stepdaughter has disappeared and the locals, headed by Tommy's outraged father-in-law, have rushed to judgment and called it murder. Tommy is charged with the crime and realizes that only Frank can save him from being convicted of a crime he did not commit.