Brecher: 28 books
by Gary Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
“[A] raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing CliffsNotes compilation of wars both well-known and ignored.” —Utne Reader
Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he’s not alone, that there’s a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off...
by Michael Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
International Political Earthquakes is the masterwork of the preeminent scholar Michael Brecher. Brecher, who came of age before World War II, has witnessed more than seven decades of conflict and has spent his career studying the dynamics of relations among nations throughout the world.
When...
by Jeremy Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden...
by Irving Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian...
Save the Humans?
Common Preservation in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Save the Humans? argues that individual self-interest depends on common preservation - cooperation to provide for mutual well-being. As world leaders fail to cooperate to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown and other threats to our survival, increasing numbers of people...
Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion
Living Well With Wine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Choosing a bottle of wine should be fun, not frightening. After all, one of the most important elements of enjoying wine is not so much the vintage or the vineyard but the occasion on which it is enjoyed.
In their new book, Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher,...
The BIG Book on Bariatric Surgery
Living Your Best Life After Weight Loss Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Weight loss surgery is a big deal, but it is only an early step in your weight loss journey. The long-term weight loss journey begins after the surgery, and it lasts for a lifetime. The Big Book on Bariatric Surgery: Living Your Best Life After Weight Loss Surgery is your guide to losing...
Climate Insurgency
A Strategy for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth's climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts...
Political Leadership and Charisma
Nehru, Ben-Gurion, and Other 20th Century Political Leaders: Intellectual Odyssey I
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book is unique in illuminating and comparing the charismatic role of two political leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion, along with assessments of many other 20th century political leaders. Its aim is to enrich our knowledge of an important dimension of global politics: charismatic...
Dynamics of the Arab-Israel Conflict
Past and Present: Intellectual Odyssey II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict. Brecher reflects back on his detailed analysis of the UN Commission created in November 1947, and his near-seven decades of research and publications on this complex protracted...
Love by the Glass
Tasting Notes from a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
“I am deeply inspired by this heartwarming story of how two people found love and—even better—a way to get paid for drinking wine.” —Dave Barry
Internationally renowned journalists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher present a captivating memoir about falling in love with each other...
In the Name of Democracy
American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?
Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information...
by Brecher, Erwin; Gerrard, Mike
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Are there rainbows on the moon? How do you walk on fire? How do you get an egg into a bottle? Can you float a battlship in your bath?The answers to these and many more puzzles, queries and curios - all of which have a base in real-world science - are to be found inside the pages of this wonderful title.
Against Doom
A Climate Insurgency Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Late in 2015, nearly two hundred countries signed the Paris Agreement acknowledging their individual and collective duty to protect the earth's climate - and willfully refused to perform that duty. They unanimously agreed to the goal of keeping global warming 'well below 2 degrees Celsius', but they...
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