Patrick J : 380 books
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”;...
A Gentle Path Through the 12 Steps and 12 Principles Bundle
A Collection of Two Patrick Carnes Best Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Two book bundle! Essential Twelve Step Recovery Guides from renown author, Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.
It was out of his reverence and respect for the wisdom and therapeutic value of the Twelve Steps that author Patrick Carnes wrote A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps, now a recovery classic and...
Business Strategy
Plan, Execute, Win!
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Embrace strategies for improving your business and reaching your organization's goals
"I wholeheartedly agree with Patrick Stroh: Good leaders understand strategy and good strategists need to be good leaders. Make this book a strategic tool for improving your business strategy." —...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
by Patrick J. Leach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
So often in my life I’ve felt lost, alone, at the mercy of huge and powerful forces. The universe was hostile, dangerous, vast and complex. I frequently felt helpless, depressed, fragile, and ultimately out of control.One night I was camping out, lying on the grass in total darkness in a...
by Patrick J. Geary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists...
The Politics of Deception
JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement. Using recently released White House tape recordings...
Bill Clinton
New Gilded Age President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: “There is no other period in the nation’s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.” The era of...
by Patrick J. Palombo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Here is a no-holds barred acerbic, satirically humorous diatribe cauterizing religions and gods and doing so without the need to rely on scientific evidence. The book challenges believers to compare everyday common sense to grossly oxymoronic "non-sense" beliefs of the supernatural. Quotations...
American Rhone
How Maverick Winemakers Changed the Way Americans Drink
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal **
"This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic,...
Partisan Priorities
How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment - a phenomenon called 'issue ownership'. Partisan Priorities investigates the origins of issue ownership, showing...
Zombiefied Reloaded: The Search for More Brains
Zombiefied, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Zombies. Why did it have to be Zombies?
We’re Baaaaaaaaack! Because you can’t get enough of the shambling, walking dead, we’ve resurrected Zombiefied! to bring you 25 more of the most twisted, brain-devouring stories. You’ll groan over tales by Cynthia Ward, Terry M. West, Christie...
by Patrick J O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
After the untimely death of his father, Mike Sheridan learns to live again. A city firefighter working near Chicago, Sheridan enters a particularly perilous summer where everything is not as it seems. His nephew is baptized into the fire department, unaware of the political dangers, coupled with a...
Taking the Hill
From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
A moving and inspiring memoir from the first Iraq war veteran to be elected to the United States Congress
Congressman Patrick J. Murphy, the Irish American son of a Philadelphia policeman and a former nun who raised their family in a tough-but-loving blue-collar neighborhood, grew out of a...