Newman: 994 books
Yankee Legends
Pivotal Moments, Players, and Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
As Cooperstown eagerly awaited the back-to-back inductions of fan favorites Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, longtime Hall of Fame voter and award-winning journalist Mark Newman took an accompanying and unique look into the proud history of the most successful sports franchise in the world. Yankee...
After Freedom
The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election,...
Encountering Gorillas
A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Gorillas, the largest of the apes inhabiting our planet, have been a source of fear, awe, and inspiration to humans. In this book, James L. Newman brings a lifetime of study of Africa to his compelling story of the rich and varied interaction between gorillas and humans since earliest contact. He...
The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and...
by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The Guardian
In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and...
by Judie Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this critical study, first published in 1988 and the first by a woman, Judie Newman discusses Gordimer’s novels, including A Sport of Nature. Gordimer’s...
Ghost Hunting for Beginners
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
If you're one of the countless fans of ghost hunting TV shows itching to get off the couch and track some spirits on your own, this book provides everything you need to know to conduct a successful paranormal investigation.
Professional ghost hunter Rich Newman shares proven scientific methods,...
Landscape of Discontent
Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved...
by Vivien Newman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Join Dr Vivien Newman, arm in arm, with some of the formidable women of the pre-First World War suffrage and anti-suffrage movements as, on the declaration of war, they turn their considerable skills, honed over 50 years of active campaigning, to both support of the war and the pursuit of peace.
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The Yellowhammer War
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.
During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their...
by David Jonathan Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Humor, depression, anger, loss, and spiritual transcendence. David Jonathan Newman's first collection of poems, Pure Luck and Good Fury, artfully delves into the fragile state of the human condition. Provocative sentiment and satisfying imagery join forces to wage a war of words that is at once terrifyingly...
Sociology
Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David M. Newman shows students how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and predictability in their take-for-granted personal experiences.
With his approachable writing style and lively...
by John Henry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert John Henry Newman, important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century (1801-1890)
This ebook presents «Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert», from John Henry Newman. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...
Comparative Deviance
Perception and Law in Six Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs,...