Weiss: 725 books
A Rhetorical Crime
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics?
A...
by Bernhard Mühlherr, Holger P. Petersson, Richard M. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary...
Valentine Promises
Heartfelt Reminders of True Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Remember what it's like to love and be loved in this beautiful collection of love stories from LeAnn Weiss. From God's timeless love letter to real-life expressions of true love, readers will be inspired by these heartfelt displays of devotion. Speaking straight to a woman's heart are stories about...
Code 6 North of the DMZ
Paul Decker assignments, #7
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
There are currently two hundred thousand North Korean citizens held in prison camps, where they are beaten, starved and executed, while the government squanders the nation's resources on weapons and luxuries for the ruling elite.
Paul Decker, along with Chechen Borya Timoshenko - and eleven...
The Patriot Betrayal
Paul Decker assignments, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
A new American President has been elected on a wave of fear: fear of war with an emerging China and re-emerging Russia, and the old wars on terror and drugs.
The government's greatest concern is not al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran, China or Russia; rather, it is deemed to be American citizens who might...
Wir Kassettenkinder
Eine Liebeserklärung an die Achtziger
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Heute sind sie legendär: die Achtziger. Es war das Jahrzehnt, als wir mit dem Kassettenrekorder Mix-Tapes aus dem Radio aufnahmen und Dallas-Frisuren und Hawaiihemden trugen. Wer in dieser Zeit zwischen Bandsalat und Neuer Deutscher Welle, Indiana Jones und YPS-Heft, Atomwaffen und Ententanz aufwuchs,...
Through the Quarry Window
A Ryan Hutton Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Ancient life awaits...
After spending the summer working on his prehistoric find, Ryan Hutton is ready to search for more fossils. Joined by his sister Marie and friends Jay and Casey, they are invited to explore quarries left behind by tropical oceans that have long since dried up. Through...
Holistic Prayer
A Guide to Jewish Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God's infinity, self-assertion and self-submission, structure and spontaneity, hope and surrender, individual expression and collective experience make tefilla one of the most difficult aspects of Jewish life....
Sclerotherapy E-Book
Treatment of Varicose and Telangiectatic Leg Veins (Expert Consult)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This classic resource by Drs. Mitchel P. Goldman, Robert A Weiss, and Jean-Jerome Guex provides highly practical, up-to-date guidance for the effective management of varicose veins and other vascular anomalies. It is an indispensable reference for a wide audience including dermatologists, invasive...
Changing of the Tides
Paul Decker assignments, #12
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Since the passage of NAFTA in 1993, thousands of Maquiladoras along the U.S. / Mexico border have been spewing their toxic waste into the Rio Grande River. From that quagmire, a plague has erupted causing a quarantine of Mexico.
The plague is being allowed to run rampant by Mexican President...
To Live and Die in Juarez
Paul Decker assignments, #10
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The drug wars have left 160,000 dead in the past six years. But the war is no closer to an end.
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Each time the Mexican police make some headway, the cartels gain more sophisticated arms and tactics. While the federales vastly outnumber them, the cartels seem to anticipate their every...
Understanding the Divide
A Presbyterian Elder, a Roman Catholic Theologian, and Basic Questions of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
In Understanding the Divide: A Presbyterian Elder, a Roman Catholic Theologian, and Basic Questions of the Christian Faith, a Presbyterian Elder and a Roman Catholic theologian reflect in dialogical fashion on basic but critical dimensions of contemporary Christian faith. How should we interpret the...
Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence
Approaching the Dharma as Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A rich and original collection of Dharma teachings, Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence weaves the poetic and the expository in a series of Zen poems and commentaries that invite both direct experience and meditative study. Paul Weiss evokes the awake, pristine, and poetic nature of our human...
Le mythe antique dans le théâtre contemporain
Textes commentés
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
La Machine infernale, Electre, Les Mouches, Antigone : quatre représentations modernes des mythes antiques qu’explorent quinze lectures méthodiques menées dans le souci des instructions officielles du baccalauréat. Chaque explication détaillée offre en effet un exemple éclairant de ce qui...