A Michael: 1281 books
by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
"Two Solitudes" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...
by A. L. Michael
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? Imogen has come to London to make it as a writer. At least, that was the plan. Finding herself in a dead-end job serving coffee to hipsters was not on her to-do list. And even if gorgeous colleague Declan does give her more of a buzz than a triple-shot cappuccino,...
Women in Top Jobs
Four Studies in Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
How far is there a ‘feminine’ style of managerial and professional work? Have employers taken account of the different timetable governing the life of a woman as compared to that of a man, and the implications of this if women are to have the training, promotion and job security needed to reach...
Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities
A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for...
by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
NO LAW. NO CONSCIENCE. NO STOPPING THEM.
They are the self-appointed protectors of the Federation. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the Federation at any cost.
Six...
The Sundered
The Lost Era 2298
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Five years after the presumed death of Captain James T. Kirk, the U.S.S. Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, is at the forefront of exploration, diplomacy, and the defense of the Federation.
Unprecedented peace talks with the violently xenophobic Tholian Assembly trigger a deadly confrontation...
The Schraft Street Historical Preservation Society
Still Blue Collar Boston Cool
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The dust has settled after the murders of two local gangstersneither officially solved, but both settled as far as the street is concerned. Nonetheless, Schraft Street remains as lively, unruly, and occasionally dangerous as ever. Boss Jim Herlihy still owns his marginally successful gym and sports...
The German Wars
A Concise History, 1859-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The German Wars: A Concise History, 1859-1945 outlines the history of European warfare from the Wars of German Unification to the end of the World War II. The title aside, the book is not be another history of the German military; it takes a much broader approach looking at political, social, economic,...
by Richard J. Sommers, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Ted Tunnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the...
The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake...
Latino Lives in America
Making It Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America*,* six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos’ population growth and...
Montesquieu's Science of Politics
Essays on The Spirit of Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000
Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation. The product of immense erudition, Montesquieu's treatise has captured since its first printing (1748) the imagination of an impressive array of intellectuals including...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Accomplice to Evil
Iran and the War Against the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From Accomplice to Evil: "The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes—from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis—who swear to destroy us and others like us, and we are repeating the errors of the recent past. Like...