Michael Bernard: 47 books
Occupy
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant...
You Can Do It
How to Boost Your Child's Achievement in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
California State University professor and educational psychologist Michael Bernard shows parents how to help their children succeed in school to the very best of their abilities. "You Can Do It!" reveals the various types of underachieving students, tells how to prevent problems before they...
Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity
Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz addresses three major philosophical themes: interpretation, relativism, and identity. It does so by focusing on Krausz’s distinctive exploration of the relationship between interpretation and ontology, the varieties...
Revue des Deux Mondes mai 2015
Peut-on encore sauver l'autorité ?
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Plaire ou déplaire – Jean-Pierre Chevènement n’aime pas plaire. Quand il n’est pas content, il le fait savoir. Quand il a une idée en tête, il ne l’a pas ailleurs. Depuis quarante ans, il martèle que la République française a besoin d’autorité et que le modèle doit venir de haut....
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.
A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Michael Alexander, Jared Decker, Bernard Wehbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Bridge the big data gap with Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts
The distinction between departmental reporting done by business analysts with Excel and the enterprise reporting done by IT departments with SQL Server and SharePoint tools is more blurry now than ever before....
by Michael C. Braswell, Belinda R. McCarthy, Bernard J. McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. This ninth edition continues to deliver a broad scope of topics, focusing on law enforcement, legal...
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops,...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...