Patrick Patrick: 6740 books
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A true-life financial memoir by an established author and veteran self-publisher, detailing just how little money a dedicated writer can make and still succeed. Along the way, instructive catastrophes and valuable life lessons are shared, including the secret of finding the right scale of comparison...
by Kevin Patrick Leech
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
IF YOU SUCCEED IN DESTROYING THE WORLD, WHO WILL BE YOUR CUSTOMERS?In the James Bond movies, the villains are often successful entrepreneurs who have built their own world-beating corporations with dominant market positions. Yet instead of continuing their firms' managed growth, they overreach...
Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and...
Stuck in Place
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...
Clean Streets
Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried...
Somebody Else's Century
East and West in a Post-Western World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction...
The Future of Almost Everything
How our world will change over the next 100 years
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into the future, predicting trends past the first decades of the 22nd century. Patrick Dixon looks at...
by John Joseph Adams, Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Our lead story for February is “Long Enough and Just So Long” by Cat Rambo, the tale of two teen, Heinleinesque Moon-residents who meet a liberated sexbot from Earth.
Next up is “The Passenger” by Julie E. Czerneda, the tale of a man and a committee aboard a generation ship, that...
The Leader Phrase Book
3,000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You In Command
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The Leader Phrase Book contains more than 3,000 dynamic phrases that will enable you to prevail in virtually all of life's important situations. You will be in command of your words and always stay ahead of the game. With this passport to success, you will begin a new journey on which you are among...
Conservatism Redefined
A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
After reaching high levels of public popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, political conservatism has become beset with criticism and disillusionment. As demonstrated by the 2008 election results, political conservatism has been blamed for an unpopular Iraq war, an economy nose diving into recession,...
The False Promise of Big Government
How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because candidates fail to address the fundamental issues.
Patrick M. Garry offers a solution...
by Patrick Francois
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer
Transforming the Fisheries
Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...