Friedman: 806 books
System, Structure, and Contradiction
The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided...
PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel
A Nation on the Couch
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this...
Poetic Knowing
From Mind's Eye To Poetic Knowing in Discourses of Poetry and Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Barton R. Friedman argues that the languages of literature and science empty many of the same conceits. "Poetic Knowing" focuses on "the rhetorical strategies by which scientists and poets" create knowledge, and includes close readings of Yeats, Blake, Tennyson, Williams, and Olson....
by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be Iris and Mercury of 1875. They were the RN's first steel-built warships; were designed primarily to be steamed...
Streaming Architecture
New Designs Using Apache Kafka and MapR Streams
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
More and more data-driven companies are looking to adopt stream processing and streaming analytics. With this concise ebook, you’ll learn best practices for designing a reliable architecture that supports this emerging big-data paradigm.
Authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman (Real World...
by Sy-David Friedman, Dilip Raghavan, Yue Yang
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore from 30 March until 30 April 2015. This special collection reports on important and recent interactions between the fields of Set Theory...
by May Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Mothers have consistently relied upon one another for guidance and support as they navigate the difficult world of parenting. For many women, the increasingly established online community of “mommyblogs” now provides a source of camaraderie and support that acknowledges both the work of mothering...
by Aileen Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The devastating disease, Alzheimer's, that ravaged her mother, left the author, Aileen Friedman, inspired to share her emotional rollercoaster ride. A heartfelt and non-fictional short story told from the depths of her heart also includes humorous encounters with other residents of the home in...
Queen of the Free State
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The outsider on the inside. The one who watches and listens. The bearer of tales... Growing up Jewish in a small town in the Free State in the '50s and '60s, Jennifer Friedman moves between child and adult, black and white, as Verwoerd's grand apartheid is dividing South Africa. There are midnight...
The Prisoner of Vandam Street
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004
Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window gets an affectionate kick in the butt in this homage from master crime writer, philosopher, and equal-opportunity offender Kinky Friedman.
It's a case of malaria versus murder when private dick extraordinaire Kinky Friedman comes down with a tropical...
Blind to Sameness
Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?
Drawing...
The Bosnian Muslims
Denial Of A Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Although their plight now dominates television news worldwide, the Bosnian Muslims were until recently virtually unknown outside of Yugoslavia. This meticulously researched, comprehensive book traces the turbulent history of the Bosnian Muslims and shows how their mixed secular and religious identity...
by Silvio Berlusconi, Alan Friedman
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2015
" Je suis un séducteur-né. "
Véritable événement mondial : Silvio Berlusconi a accepté de livrer ses mémoires à travers cet ouvrage. De son enfance dans les faubourgs de Milan pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale à son premier contrat immobilier, en passant par ses jeunes années...
Abraham Joshua Heschel--Philosopher of Wonder
Our Thirty-Year Friendship and Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Most studies of Abraham Joshua Heschel approach him as a theologian, whereas this book peers behind the theologian and honors Heschel as the original philosopher that he was. So it unearths Heschel's epistemology, his aesthetic, and his social philosophy, all reinforced by the thirty years of friendship...