Bernard Thomas: 24 books
Isaiah's Eagles Rising
A Generation of Airmen
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
They came in waves from the schools, factories, farms, and city streets, some driven by patriotism, but most with a dream. Bernard Nolan was one of the nearly 200,000 pilots who earned his wings during World War II.
Nolan relates the journey of a boy with a passion for flying airplanes: how...
LUCIO URTUBIA
THE INDOMITABLE ANARCHIST.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The biography of Lucio Urtubia, a Paris-based Navarese anarchist who was a friend and protégé of the enigmatic Spanish urban guerrilla ‘El Quico’, and the friend of, among others. André Breton and Albert Camus. Lucio played his part in the network of anarchist action and illegalist...
The Greatest British Classics Ever Written
Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
Le Kinomichi
Du mouvement à la création
Language: French
Release Date: July 6, 2016
«Anti-art-martial». C'est par cette formule paradoxale que Bernard Hévin définit le Kinomichi qu'il présente dans cet ouvrage. En effet, le Kinomichi est issu de la profonde réflexion de Maître Noro, l'un des plus grands aïkidokas de la lignée du fondateur, Maître Ueshiba, sur la réalisation...
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living
Awareness & Meditation Practices for Living in the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Enhance your awareness, achieve higher focus and happiness, and improve all levels of your health with the supportive practices in this guide to mindful living. Featuring over twenty-five leading meditation and mindfulness experts, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living shows you how to boost...
by Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch, Bernard Stiegler
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
On the social consequences of machines
Automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
World's Greatest Classics in One Volume
Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, Huck Finn, Walden, War and Peace, Art of War, Siddhartha, Faust, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights, Bushido…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...
by Thomas J. Bernard, Megan C. Kurlychek
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The Cycle of Juvenile Justice takes a historical look at juvenile justice policies in the United States. Tracing a pattern of policies over the past 200 years, the book reveals cycles of reforms advocating either lenient treatment or harsh punishments for juvenile delinquents. Bernard and Kurlychek...
Dubin's Lives
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon
Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of all."
Its protagonist...
Goffman Unbound!
A New Paradigm for Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is...
Modeling, Control and Optimization of Water Systems
Systems Engineering Methods for Control and Decision Making Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book provides essential background knowledge on the development of model-based real-world solutions in the field of control and decision making for water systems. It presents system engineering methods for modelling surface water and groundwater resources as well as water transportation systems...
by Laursen Thomas; Myers Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This paper describes the characteristics of public investment management (PIM) in seven EU countries as it applies to a single sector transport infrastructure. The report highlights some of the common challenges that four relatively new EU member states Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Latvia face as...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
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...
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