Hoffman: 730 books
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China
Fostering Talent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development...
Radical
A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From Left to Right, one man has influenced them all: Saul Alinsky. Radical is a personal portrait of this controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli.
The tactics and strategy of Alinsky, who died in 1972, have been studied by people as...
Finding Purpose
Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever,...
Acting and How to Be Good at It
The Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This authoritative and ground-breaking text teaches the serious student of acting a proven, comprehensive and effective approach to the craft and to character development. Through revealing, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and practical exercises, the veteran character actor guides readers through his unique,...
Echoes
The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen...
May God Remember
Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
An engaging and sobering look at memorializing in Judaism and why memory—ours and God's—is so central to people.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine...
King's Gambit
A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness.
In King's Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt...
by Philip T. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such...
The Small Heart of Things
Being at Home in a Beckoning World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it’s a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a quail taking...
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient
The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Paul E. Hoffman's groundbreaking book focuses on a neglected area of colonial history -- southeastern North America during the sixteenth-century. Hoffman describes expeditions to the region, efforts at colonization, and rivalries between the French, Spanish, and English. He reveals the ways in which...
by Sharon J. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Sharon Hoffmans life changed drastically when her husband of thirty-six years was diagnosed with lung cancer and died just five months later. In her poignant account of her journey through terminal illness and grief, Hoffman offers a compelling personal narrative on how she learned to not only survive...
by Rev. Lee Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In My Personal Walk and Talk with Jesus, Lee Hoffman tells of his trip with Jesushow he got there, all about their time spent together, and how he got back.
Jesus said, I never took anyone up to paradise this way and will never again. Read it carefully, and you will know the great difference...
House by House, Block by Block
The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how...
Nummer 9
Wat er voorafging aan Insomnia
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 31, 2018
'Nummer 9' van Jilliane Hoffman is een kort verhaal dat voorafgaat aan het boek 'Insomnia'. Het verhaal is tevens los te lezen.
Jilliane Hoffman schrijft thrillers die zich kunnen meten met het beste werk van Karin Slaughter, Gillian Flynn en Patricia Cornwel.
‘Geraffineerd bouwt Hoffman...