Gordon L : 212 books
Positive Results
Making the Best Decisions When You're at High Risk for Breast or Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains...
by Neal Salisbury, Rosalind J. Beiler, Robert J. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating...
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work
A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1997
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring...
by Donald L. Gentile, Bernard L. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Originally named Pleasant View, Misquamicut is a lovely stretch of beach located in southern Rhode Island. Court Bliven and his wife named the area for its remarkable views. They built the first cottage, called the Pioneer, in 1894 and the Wigwam Hotel in 1905. The trolley came to the area in 1908, and...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Social Media
Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Social Media: Culture and Identity examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. New media scholars— both national and international— have posited thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication that are impacted by...
Reality Television
Oddities of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because...
Battery Park City
Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing...
by Nathan J. Gordon, William L. Fleisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying? It also provides a guide for interviewing probable suspects and interrogating likely perpetrators on techniques and tradecraft.
This book covers topics about searching...
Intellectual Property
Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages, 2016 Cumulative Supplement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Up-to-date, expert guidance and a valuable tool kit for IP valuation
Intellectual Property, Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages provides practical tools and expert clarification for the valuation of intangible assets. This new 2016 Cumulative Supplement contains the latest laws,...
by Wanda Curlee, Robert L. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
An insightful view on how to use the power of complexity theory to manage projects more successfully
Current management practices require adherence to rigid, global responses unsuitable for addressing the changing needs of most projects. Complexity Theory and Project Management shifts this...
Doing Business in Mexico
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Learn what you need to know to conduct successful business in Mexico!
This book is a primer on all aspects of doing business in Mexico, with practical examples that illustrate the risks and benefits of Mexican business operations. It provides the basic knowledge that all prospective investors...