Samuel A : 118 books
by Samuel A Peeples
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
He pays his debts with hot lead! This is the story of a kid who turns killer, a boy who grows to manhood long before his time. Seeing no justice in the land, he takes the law into his own lightning swift hands.The legend that grows around Billy Bascom is born the day they planted the cross that read:...
by Bishop Samuel A. Wilson Sr
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
This book is 10 years in the making and was conceived out of watching the experiences of people, and the resultant effects of those experiences. As a theologian, Bishop Wilson, was able to capture or relate theses issues with Naomi in the book of Ruth. Do lifes negative experiences make us, bitter...
Bearing Society in Mind
Theories and Politics of the Social Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach. Bearing Society in Mind challenges these disciplinary boundaries and proposes an alternative framework—the social formation.
The...
Judith Butler and Political Theory
Troubling Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with...
by Samuel A. Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Straddling the towns of Norwalk, Wilton, and New Canaan is the little valley known as Silvermine, an artists' colony whose rural feel has changed little since it was settled in the Colonial era. By the 19th century, a dozen mills were humming along the Silvermine River. When the mills became silent...
Putin v. the People
The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin’s grip on power is more fragile then we think
What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences...
Original Sin
Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent. Original Sin argues that the "jurisprudence of original intent," represented on the current Supreme Court by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on...
Get Rid of the Performance Review!
How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it.
Until now...
Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers...
The Concord Quartet
Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
"We will walk on our own feet;
we will work with our own hands;
we will speak our own minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837
From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...
by Samuel A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK All for one, and one for all! Who doesn't know this famous phrase, and the three brave soldiers who uttered it in the court of King Louis XIII? There can be no doubt about the significance of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel. After all, it's one of the most adapted novels in film...
by Samuel A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
From the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award-nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films. Although he also began directing...
Moscow in Movement
Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series...
The Agony of an American Wilderness
Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
The Allegheny National Forest exists on what might have been the most heavily exploited landscape in the history of civilization. Careful stewardship over the last eight decades has transformed it into a beautiful forest that contains countless wildlife species and some of the world's most valuable...
by Samuel A. Malone
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Few corporate initiatives of the last ten years have been more influential in the development of a learning culture at work than the corporate learning centre. The first edition of Sam Malone's book quickly established itself as the definitive concise guide to best practice. The second edition reflects...