Jaffe: 177 books
Capital of Capital
Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From Revolutionary Era bank notes to the 2008 financial collapse, Capital of Capital explores how New York City gave rise to a banking industry that in turn made the American and world economies. Capital of Capital also examines the frequently contentious evolution of the banking business, its role...
Election 2016: Democracy in Disarray
A Campaign Bloated with Bombastry, Bigotry, and Blatant Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Nov. 9, 2016, Americans awoke like they’d spent a night of blackout drinking—Unbelievably, D. Trump had won the election. Expect insights like “Trump thinks he’s infallible”or how the Pantsuited Crusader Hillary Clinton closely paralleled Batman and why Bernie Sanders had millennials Feeling the Bern.
Modernist Star Maps
Celebrity, Modernity, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range...
Women in Criminal Justice
True Cases By and About Canadian Women and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were disquieting/perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting...
Processing Parkinson's, Parenting and the Past
Through Prose and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
What do you do when you're flabbergasted and don't know what to do? Well, I eat and write. Although I'm better at eating than writing, both help me understand and accept the experiences in my life. This book, in three parts, has served as a processing exercise for me. The first part is a short story...
The Original Dream Team
Portrait of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The original, and some say only, Dream Team, the greatest sports team ever, was the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that amazed fans around the world and transformed the NBA into a global phenomenon. The team that created this book are filmmakers and, in every instance, they went for the dramatic...
by Bill Holtsnider, Brian D. Jaffe
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
IT Manager’s Handbook: The Business Edition is a MUST-HAVE guide for the advancing technology professional who is looking to move up into a supervisory role, and is ideal for newly-promoted IT managers who needs to quickly understand their positions. It uses IT–related examples to discuss business...
Z.E.R.O.
Zero Paid Media as the New Marketing Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The world has changed. Everyone keeps reminding marketers and advertisers about the never ending and accelerating forces of technology disruption, consumer changes, and innovation evolution in the marketing world today. Sounds exciting except for the fact that we’re doing absolutely nothing about...
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises
The Global Curse of Black Gold
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the current financial crisis, which...
IT Manager's Handbook
Getting your New Job Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
IT Manager’s Handbook, Third Edition, provides a practical reference that you will return to again and again in an ever-changing corporate environment where the demands on IT continue to increase. Make your first 100 days really count with the fundamental principles and core concepts critical to...
Uninvested
How Wall Street Hijacks Your Money and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Bobby Monks is blowing the whistle on Wall Street, giving middle class Americans the low down on how they’re being fleeced of their retirement money—and what they can do about it
Every month our financial statements arrive, and every month we glance at them, trying to understand, hoping...
Mazes and Monsters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Part thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monsters is a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the “steam tunnel incidents” of the 1970s, the four friends—Kate,...
by Derek Royal, James Bloom, Ira Nadel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular...
Gamete and Embryo Selection
Genomics, Metabolomics and Morphological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book provides the Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) community an update of the fast approaching novel technologies that may allow improved assessment of the reproductive potential of sperm, oocytes and embryos. The reader has access to concise updates on the rapidly developing diagnostic...