Hess: 433 books
Humility Is the New Smart
Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Humility Is the New Smart
Your job is at risk—if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in...
Self as Nation
Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers...
Learning in a Musical Key
Insight for Theology in Performative Mode
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Learning in a Musical Key examines the multidimensional problem of the relationship between music and theological education. Lisa Hess argues that, in a delightful and baffling way, musical learning has the potential to significantly alter and inform our conception of the nature and process of theological...
by Jeffery Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
It’s 1980 on Florida’s Gulf coast. Sun, drugs, gambling debts, and dirty deals push Navy-prison parolee Scotland Ross deeper into the life of crime he never wanted.
His sister’s life, a potential newfound love, and his own freedom are all on the line as he tangles with a redneck gangster...
Digitale Transformation strategisch steuern
Vom Zufallstreffer zum systematischen Vorgehen
Language: German
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Digitalisierung und digitale Transformation sind nicht nur ein Thema der Medien, sondern finden auch real in den Unternehmen statt. Der digitale Wandel tangiert die unterschiedlichsten Felder, von der Beschaffung bis zum Vertrieb und von der Organisation bis zur Strategieentwicklung. Diese Aufgabe...
Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now Elizabeth Hess’s unforgettable biography is the inspiration for Project Nim, a riveting new documentary directed by James Marsh and produced by Simon Chinn, the Oscar-winning team known for Man on Wire. Hess, a consultant on the film, says, “Getting a call...
by Fred Hess
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Business author Fred Hess is telling all - revealing little known sources of free government help for small businesses. Everything from advice, counseling services and publications, loans, loan guarantees, financial incentives and much more, all free for the asking. Hess has just finished updating the...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A practical and entertaining volume, Cage-Busting Leadership will be of profound interest and value to school and district leaders—and to everyone with a stake in school improvement.
Rick Hess aptly describes his aims at the start of this provocative book: "I believe that two things...
A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2018
Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged...
Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Earl J.Hess's study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold...
Pickett’s Charge, July 3 and Beyond, Omnibus E-book
Includes Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess and Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Pickett's Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 July 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, holds a central place in the nation's collective memory of the Civil War. Available for the first time as an Omnibus E-book Edition, this two-volume...
Unlikely Companions
The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor (or, What Friends Feathered, Furred, and Scaled Have Taught Me about Life and Love)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Whether it's an umbrella cockatoo who's not eating, a depressed chinchilla, a pregnant potbellied pig, or a ferret possibly needing surgery, exotic animal vet Laurie Hess is at the front lines with some remarkable pets-and their equally eccentric, dedicated, and sometimes demanding owners. Following...
Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?
Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless...
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.”
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy...