Stadler: 66 books
Yeshiva Fundamentalism
Piety, Gender, and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, is a space reserved for men, and for a focus on religious ideals. Fundamentalist forms of piety are usually believed to be quite resistant to change. In Yeshiva Fundamentalism, Nurit Stadler uncovers surprising...
The Psychology of Baseball
Inside the Mental Game of the Major League Player
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Get inside the minds of the stars of the diamond in this extraordinary tour of brain power, psyche, and sheer will.
Yogi Berra once said, "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." Even so, the Yankee great may have underestimated the brain power professional baseball...
Enduring Success
What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Enduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies, targeting nine that...
by Koos Stadler
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’.
South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy...
Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty
Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects. Although clinical trials attempt...
Wilson and Miss Lovely
A Back-to-School Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
A charming school story with a twist—new from John Stadler!
Wilson had just finished his first week of school and could not wait for the next one to begin. He was very fond of his new teacher, Miss Lovely. But something was wrong that day—very wrong. There were no school buses, the school...
Vater, Mutter, Staat
Das Märchen vom Segen der Ganztagsbetreuung - Wie Politik und Wirtschaft die Familie zerstören
Language: German
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Die betreute Generation
Irgendwas läuft hier falsch. Wie sonst ist das wachsende Unbehagen von Eltern zu erklären, die ihre Kinder kaum noch sehen, weil sie im Büro sitzen, vorgeblich um sich selbst zu verwirklichen? Wie die Untersuchungen zu Stresshormonen bei Krippenkindern, die hier locker...
by John Stadler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
MEET WILBUR LITTLE, a lime-juice drinking, pint-sized, sombreroed cowboy who herds pigs for a living. Wilbur tackles the villains he meets in the forms of pig-rustlers and gamblers, along with his loyal companion, Alvin (who happens to be a big blue moose), an off-key singing piglet, and a book-loving...
Screen Media
Analysing Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen...
The Team Secret
Accelerate your Business with Special Forces Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies in the business world – a small team has a much better chance of completing projects efficiently, on budget...
Ich und Ihr
Geschichte eines Rückzuges, dem wahren Leben nacherzählt
Language: German
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Frank Stadler erzählt die Geschichte eines Rückzuges, eines Rückzuges aus dem Leben. Der Protagonist dieser Erzählung. H., findet sich als Konsequenz eigenen Handelns, selbst induzierter Veränderungen, in einer Dynamik vor, die ihn weit transzendiert - und auslöscht.
Bruder, was hast du getan?
Kloster Ettal. Die Täter, die Opfer, das System.
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Der Missbrauch hatte System Im Frühjahr 2010 wurde bekannt, dass geistliche Erzieher am Kloster Ettal ihnen anvertraute Internatsschüler über Jahrzehnte seelisch wie körperlich misshandelt und sexuell missbraucht hatten. Wie konnte es geschehen, dass sich ein scheinbar so gottesfürchtiges Idyll...
Die Kunst der Filmkomödie Band 2
1.000 Filmkomödien
Language: German
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Franz Stadler und Manfred Hobsch stellen die 1.000 besten Komödien vor: Von "Abbott und Costello treffen Frankenstein" bis "Zwölf Stühle", von Harold Lloyds "Ausgerechnet Wolkenkratzer" bis Wolfgang Beckers "Ich und Kaminski" durchschreitet dieser abschließende...
Die Kunst der Filmkomödie Band 1
Komiker, Gags und Regisseure
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Worüber der Filmzuschauer lacht und wie die Gagmaschine Kino funktioniert - das erklären Filmjournalist Manfred Hobsch und Programmkino-Pionier Franz Stadler im zweibändigen Handbuch "Die Kunst der Filmkomödie": kenntnisreich, aber subjektiv, geleitet von persönlichen Einschätzungen,...