Miller Daniel: 58 books
My American Dream
One Woman's Journey Living with a Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Born in a farming village in rural Spain, a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents continents away she is raised by her grandparents as if one of their own. After years of being exiled from her family she is suddenly ripped away...
A New Development Agenda
Trade, Development, and Procurement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The link between economic development and state security has been well documented. As policymakers consider that link, the model for international development in the twenty-first century must include both governments and the private sector. In this new report, the CSIS Scholl Chair in International...
Opportunities in Strengthening Trade Assistance
A Report of the CSIS Congressional Task Force on Trade Capacity Building
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
While free trade agreements and other intermediary trade agreements allow emerging nations increased access to markets, many low- and middle-income countries lack the capacity required to meet global standards. Deficiencies in quality of product, speed of transport, or quality of regulation can prevent...
by Miller Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Legal assistants job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures...
by Kevin A. Ewing, Duke K. McCall III, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
by Daniel Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist!What Would Your Life Be Like If You Simply Let Go of Control?At work, they oversee every detail of every project and expect nothing less than perfection from their coworkers.At home, they obsess over finding the “right” person. Then,...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Le case dell'uomo
Abitare il mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Soffermarsi su che cosa rappresenti oggi la casa in varie parti del mondo, su come stia cambiando, o sull’importanza di “fare casa”, ci obbliga a riflettere su noi stessi, sulle nostre radici e sul rapporto coi nostri vicini, soprattutto con quelli costretti a risiedere ai “margini”. Intersecando...
Animal Ethics and Theology
The Lens of the Good Samaritan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, Animal Ethics and Theology thoughtfully examines the shortcomings of utilitarian and rights-based...
Blue Jeans
The Art of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item—blue...
by Daniel Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.
In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted...
Social Media in an English Village
(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
Beyond the Wall
Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
"There were a number of books about A Game of Thrones (the HBO series) and A Song of Ice and Fire (the books) published last year . . . the one that impressed me most was James Lowder's Beyond the Wall."
—George R.R. Martin
Foreword by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore
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Moral Psychology
Virtue and Character
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.
Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent...