Mark M: 448 books
Starting Over
How to Change Your Career or Start Your Own Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
This invaluable guide offers a definitive game plan for anyone seeking to redefine his or her work status--for finding a new career or even starting a personal business.
Political Arithmetic
Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand...
Second Acts
Creating the Life You Really Want, Building the Career You Truly Desire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Second Acts is a guide to reinventing your life. Whether you wish to change careers, move to a more desirable part of the country, start a business, write a novel, or drop everything to pursue a life dream, Stephen Pollan offers a powerful message ofhope and guidance that has benefited his own clients.
Through...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Finding My Faith
101 Inspirational Stories about Life, Belief, and Spiritual Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Everyone’s "faith story" is different. In the book, people of Christian and Jewish faiths share their personal stories about this life-changing and powerful event, providing inspiration and encouragement to readers.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Finding My Faith is filled with inspiring stories...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Here Comes the Bride
101 Stories of Love, Laughter, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Here Comes the Bride will amuse, encourage, and excite any future bride or newlywed with its stories above love, romance, and the big day. A great gift for bridal showers, engagements, and weddings.
The wedding day, and each day leading up to it, is a special and...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers
101 Motivational Stories for Writers – Budding or Bestselling – from Books to Blogs
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
With 101 stories from published writers who stuck with it and succeeded, you will be inspired and encouraged, whether you’re an aspiring author, a blogger, or a bestselling writer.
No matter the genre, no matter the medium, the writing process is hard! But you will find inspiration, encouragement,...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family
101 Incredible Stories about Our Funny, Quirky, Lovable & "Dysfunctional" Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Readers will be amused, comforted, and encouraged, by stories about “dysfunctional” families just like their own, and will realize we are all alike and we all have the same family issues. A great quirky and fun holiday book.
Almost everyone thinks their own family is “dysfunctional “or...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart
Meditations for the Restless Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court’s verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with fondness.
However, what makes him of particular interest...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
The Eisenhower Presidency
Lessons for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The chapters in this volume address the lessons we might draw from the Eisenhower experience for presidential leadership today. Although most of the authors find much to admire in the Eisenhower record, they express varying opinions on how applicable his approach would be for our own time. On one...
Psychiatric Rights (Rites?)
A Treatise on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization and Thomas Szasz
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
Involuntary mental hospitalization is a political act, based on the misguided need of the state to control its "undesirable" or "deviant" citizens. It has no place in a free society, as it is a violation of the fundamental rights to personal freedom and individual liberty. It is...
by Joyce A. Baugh, John D. Burrow, Mark S. Hurwitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape...
by Mark W. Friedberg, Peggy G. Chen, Kristin R. Van Busum
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The American Medical Association asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that affect physician professional satisfaction. RAND researchers sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction by gathering data from 30 physician practices in six states, using a combination...