Peter Hoffman: 13 books
by H. Peter Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
When the author H. Peter Hoffmans wife, Doris, developed Alzheimers, a hospice volunteer was assigned to visit her once per week. Carole Fischer was not only a great help for the couple, but also paved the way to the creation of this memoir when she asked Hoffman how he met Doris.
Spanning...
by H. Peter Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
After he lost his wife to Alzheimers, author H. Peter Hoffman knew he lost a big part of his life. But he found a new meaning and a new reason to look forward to each day when he unearthed letters sent to him by his then girlfriend, Doris. In this release, the author captures his and his beloved wifes...
Stauffenberg
A Family History, 1905-1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowledged, but few are aware of the individuals involved. In this detailed family history Peter Hoffmann reveals the tragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and would-be assassin of Adolph Hitler. Hoffmann details Stauffenberg's...
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect...
Imaginarium 4
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2014 calendar year.
Featuring Kelley...
by Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Reid Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
How HR can lead.
If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization,...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics
Solferino to Syria and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international...
Sword & Salve
Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continue to operate as they have in the past, they will fail to help the very victims whom they try to save. Focusing especially on the emergence of 'new wars,'...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Imaginarium 2012
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...
by James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving...
The Sun Is Rising in Africa and the Middle East
On the Road to a Solar Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Both Africa and the Middle East are blessed with enormous solar energy resources. Electrification is an urgent need in Africa, where many of its 54 countries are among the world’s fastest-growing economies, but where half the population still has no access to electricity. Solar energy is seen as...