Manfred: 938 books
Popular Justice
A History of Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better...
Rudolf Virchow
Der große Arzt und Politiker
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) war nicht nur einer der Begründer der medizinischen Wissenschaft, sondern er setzte sich auch immer wieder für Reformen im Gesundheitswesen ein. Er war Mitbegründer der liberalen Fortschrittspartei und als Mitglied des preußischen Abgeordnetenhauses einer der schärfsten...
by Anke Gebert, Dagmar Berghoff, Regine Hildebrandt
Language: German
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: May 25, 2012
"Wahnsinn! Das kann doch nicht wahr sein!" riefen die Menschen euphorisch in der Nacht vom 9. zum 10. November 1989 und fielen sich vor Freude über den Mauerfall in die Arme. Auch am 13. August 1961 wollte niemand glauben, dass es wahr sein kann: "Eine Mauer durch Berlin! Niemals! Das ist doch Wahnsinn!...
The Hedgehog Effect
The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
In The Hedgehog Effect, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering...
The Leader on the Couch
A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action. This book sets out to change people...
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom
How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries,...
Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership
Leadership Pathology in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the previous book in this series, Manfred Kets de Vries observed the experiences of leaders on a rollercoaster ride through their professional and personal lives. Now, he follows them down the rabbit hole into the unknown, where, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, they find a dystopian Wonderland in...
by Manfred B. Steger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Offers a stimulating introduction to globalization and its varying impacts across, between, and within societies. It is a highly readable book that contributes to a better understanding of the crucial aspects and dimensions of the developments and transformations that go by the name of globalization....
What Is Global Studies?
Theory & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
What is Global Studies, and how does it relate to globalization? Responding to this frequently asked question, Manfred B. Steger and Amentahru Wahlrab provide the first comprehensive overview of this emerging field.
Authoritative and accessible, this primer speaks to students and instructors...
by Frederick Manfred
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time—the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.
Riders of Judgment centers...
by Frederick Manfred
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name.
No Name has his vision,...
Talking to the Shaman Within
Musings on Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Everything about hunting leads inexorably to death; the challenge for all hunters is how to justify the kill. But the hunters emotional response to the kill is immensely complex. Hunters respectand even lovethe animals they kill. Talking to the Shaman Within: Musings on Hunting addresses this paradox...
Spagyrics
The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits
• Shows how spagyric methods “open” medicinal plants completely to release powerful healing properties
• Provides a history and philosophy of spagyrics that reveal why Western medicine fails to recognize...
Der Engel der letzten Stunde
Kriminalroman
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2013
MAREK MIERT IST ZURÜCK! EIN ÖSTERREICHISCHER PROVINZKRIMI IM BESTEN SINNE - MIT SPANNUNG, BISSIGEM HUMOR UND DER GANZ PERSÖNLICHEN HANDSCHRIFT DES AUTORS. Ein verschwundenes Mädchen, verzweifelte Flüchtlinge aus Afghanistan, fremdenfeindliche Provinzpolitiker und ein durchgeknallter Oberleutnant...