Steven: 5874 books
by Steven Heighton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of "The Afterword," Steven Heightons memos and dispatches to himself - a writers pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing - have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin...
Einstein's Jewish Science
Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers...
Paraphernalia
The Curious Lives of Magical Things
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
From keys and handkerchiefs to sweets and rubber bands, the curious objects we surround ourselves with, though often seemingly mundane, have a magical quality.
Their surprising power to disturb, soothe, seduce or absorb give these quirky objects histories and meanings we rarely ponder. Yet...
by Steven Qualls
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Crawling out from the pits of the streets of hell, Snowy Crowe has one thing on his mind - Revenge! Revenge on the whole world and everyone in it. Extraordinarily smart, extremely rich, with an almost mystical control over people’s minds, Snowy always gets his way. Except there is someone who has...
Endangered Phrases
Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
As the world changes, so does language . . . An A-to-Z guide to expressions from yesteryear that are becoming increasingly scarce.
“Person to person” (and “station to station”), “bar sinister,” “the weed of crime bears bitter fruit,” “between the devil and the deep blue sea,”...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book acts as a long drawn out project which over time reveals pertinent information among certain perpetrators. Serial killers and mass murderers alike tend to be white males. They are usually young but not all, just some are so young the average age drops substantially. Serial killing is often...
Democracy Derailed in Russia
The Failure of Open Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2005
Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently...
To Fool the Rain
Haiti's Poor and their Pathway to a Better Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin’s journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself.
Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen Lavi Miyò participants, who have benefited...
Unspeak
How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
What do the phrases pro-life,” intelligent design,” and the war on terror” have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them evaluative-descriptive...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
“Race, Ethnicity, and United States’ Demographics” discusses the demographics of the United States from the perspective of race and ethnicity. Distinguish the terms of race and ethnicity along with racial versus ethnic groups. The demographics of the United States would change rapidly from the...
Literature, Intertextuality, and the American Revolution
From Common Sense to Rip Van Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776-82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground...
by Steven Frye, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven...
by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
In this ebook, I start out with a discussion of the Four Stages of Relationships. Intimate relationships do not just happen. They evolve. Their progress and path is well understood. I go over this because without knowing the stages, it is hard to figure out "where" in the continuum you might...
by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Hi, my name is Dr. Griggs. I've been a psychologist in private practice for over two decades. I love writing ebooks on subjects that matter, and here's another one. I've spent years honing what works and what doesn't. I've read lots and lots of self-help books, and most of...