Beckerman: 31 books
A Poverty of Reason
Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In this detailed economic investigation of sustainable development, a noted professor of economics argues that many of the alarms commonly sounded by environmentalists are, in fact, unfounded, and that current sustainable development policies should be reconsidered in light of their effects on the...
by George Beckerman, Michael Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
“Tripod” is a children’s picture book about a three-legged dog who feels inadequate. He goes off on a quest to find his fourth leg and realizes that he can do things on three legs that other dogs can’t do on four. Self-confidence gained, inadequate feeling gone.
The Ecology of the Barí
Rainforest Horticulturalists of South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Barí have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began studying the Barí in 1960, when he made the first modern peaceful contact with this previously unreceptive...
by Karla Hartl, Jindri?ka Bártová, Michael Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
by Alex Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Boys will be boys. Unfortunately, they will also be arsonists, wrecking balls, flooders, and eight-limbed ninjas of destruction. It is their nature. With photos pulled from the 1950s on, this book celebrates the wacky, illogical, dangerous, and ridiculous things boys do. Parents everywhere will laugh...
Economics as Applied Ethics
Fact and Value in Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in inequality over the years are...
Getting Started with R
An Introduction for Biologists
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
R is rapidly becoming the standard software for statistical analyses, graphical presentation of data, and programming in the natural, physical, social, and engineering sciences. Getting Started with R is now the go-to introductory guide for biologists wanting to learn how to use R in their research....
The Flex Diet
Design-Your-Own Weight Loss Plan
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
SMALL CHANGES YIELD BIG RESULTS.
Many diet books present readers with a single, inflexible program which forces them to stay on that diet or risk another dieting failure. Rather than teaching you just one way to lose ten or twenty or even fifty pounds, The Flex Diet shows you how to lose...
Business Baby
Getting Things Done, One Tantrum at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Little tykes may not have MBAs or PowerPoint skills, but every parent knows who's boss. And it's not the one who can count to three. It's only natural: the toddler skill set is perfectly suited to the corporate world. They're incredibly good at delegating, they're (literally) climbers, and they'll...
Couples of Mixed HIV Status
Clinical Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today!
Previous books on this subject-mostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic disease-focused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical...
by Martin Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
In today’s world, three great classes of non-infectious diseases – the metabolic syndromes (such as type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis), the cancers, and the neurodegenerative disorders – have risen to the fore. These diseases, all associated with increasing age of an individual, have proven...
by Alice Gertzog, Edwin P. Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Now available in paperback! The Administrative of the Public Library is a comprehensive approach to contemporary public library concerns. It combines theory and practical advice as it addresses in a simple, logical, clear, and jargon-free fashion public library policies, procedures, resources, and...
by Martin Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This unique text introduces students and researchers to the world of misfolded proteins, toxic oligomers, and amyloid assemblages, and the diseases of the brain that result. During the past few years the connections between failures in protein quality control and neurological disorders have been reinforced...