Daniel M : 512 books
Obsolescence
An Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient—and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world,...
American Indians
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the...
The Beautiful Cure
The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
**“Visceral.”—Wall Street Journal * “Illuminating.”—Publishers Weekly * “Heroic.”—Science
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune...
by Daniel M Jaffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
"We know the territory that Jaffe writes in—lush, stark, unexpected, a Jordan flowing through it with Real on one bank and Dream on the other. Jaffe is not afraid to write about violence, or blasphemy, sometimes comically and sometimes horrifically...you are holding in your hands this new book...
Owners of the Sidewalk
Security and Survival in the Informal City
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in...
Representing the Advantaged
How Politicians Reinforce Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we...
Say We Are Nations
Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other...
by Daniel M. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
You quit after every cigarette, but how to keep yourself from starting again?
You are reading these words, which means that you are considering the fact that you need to quit smoking, once and for all. Perhaps you have already tried, perhaps you have only now started thinking about it, in either...
by Bob Brown, Louise Marley, Adam-Troy Castro
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, a fvisionairy anthology dreamed up by two Pacific Northwest authors In the aftermath of the presidential inauguration, Bob Brown and Phyllis Irene Radford asked the science fiction writers they know to imagine a post-Trump, post-truth world
ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS is about the...
by Daniel M. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Set in Gallipoli, ANZAC SPIRIT is about a sixteen year old boy, who went to war seeking adventure. What he found was the true horrors of war. It is also a story about mateship and the hardship faced by the diggers.
The Mind Club
Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**“Compelling, and so beautifully written…’The Mind Club’ deftly brings the most up-to-date research about other minds to readers of all backgrounds. It may cause you to think differently about crime and punishment, about business transactions and health care, and even about the upcoming elections....
The Spectacular City
Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from...
Single Handed
The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...
In 1944, a thirteen-year-old Hungarian boy named Tibor Rubin was captured by the Nazis and sent...
Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to...