Abigail M: 17 books
Empress San Francisco
The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging...
Consumed by Secrets Uncovered
Consumed, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
JakeWatching Aspen’s whole life implodeis one of the hardest things I have ever done.But I can’t be near her.Not now I know who she is.AspenThe hits just keep coming. I am not sure I will survive any more secrets.And when my whole world collapses, who is left?
Consumed by Deception
Consumed, #2
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Jake
My only mission was to earn back Aspen’s trust.
In helping her, I lead her down a track neither of us ever expected.
I just hope she remembers not to kill the messenger. Me.
Aspen
Jake is persistent. A trait that comes in handy when helping me to uncover the...
by Julian M. Alston, Abigail M. Okrent
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate past and potential future roles...
by Abigail M. Spinney
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
When an experiment on a huge, northeastern horse farm seemingly ends in disaster, the resultant, useless foal is cast aside. Samuel Decker, the farm owner, is grieved, but returns to business as usual breeding other successful race horses. Eight years later, when personal crises bring her life to a...
by Abigail Kirsch, Susan M. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
As Abigail Kirsch knows after catering thousands of weddings, being a newlywed is all about beginning new traditions. One of the most pleasurable of those traditions is entertaining at home. But couples just starting to invite friends, family, and business colleagues for casual or more formal meals...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
Righteous Indignation
A Jewish Call for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world?
In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...
Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies
The Bloomington School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political...
Análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas en México
Una agenda de investigación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2019
El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos es una invitación para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas, así como su relación y posibles tensiones. Esta propuesta responde a la necesidad de explorar los alcances y límites de una relación que todavía...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.
There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...
The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year
The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year offers new parents a clear, comforting companion devoid of the "musts" and "shoulds" that abound in other new baby books. Rather than focusing on rigid guidelines to development, it acknowledges that babies are people, and they do things...
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