Stark: 663 books
by Michael R Stark
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
Murder follows three people in the stories inside. The first is a hit man who can't believe what he's asked to do. In the second, a farmer picks up a girl on a lonely road and gets more than he bargained for. In the last, a mother goes hunting.
Wings of War
An Airman's Diary of the Last Year of the War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is a rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of the war. Originally published in 1933, it provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans’ step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces...
Wild Pitches
Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Every baseball fan knows that Derek Jeter and Albert Pujols are among the best to ever play the game. But how do their high-priced contracts impact their teams’ abilities to compete for a World Series title? Which managers and executives are best at getting the most out of their roster, year-in...
A Winter in Arabia
A Journey Through Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist. There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor,"...
The Triumph of Christianity
How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’slargest religion. In The Triumph of Christianity, the author of God’sBattalions and The...
Religious Hostility
A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stark and Corcoran have assembled remarkable facts and figures with which to assess religious hatred and terrorism around the world. Not content merely to document the extent of religious hatred and terrorism, they also to explain why it occurs and whether it can be overcome. The world is aflame with...
The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need, Revised and Updated
101 Ways to Win Every Time in Any Situation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Discover the critical elements you need for a successful negotiation and 101 tactics to use in any high stakes business deal, when asking your boss for a raise, or even when asking your significant other to take out the garbage.
In this book, you'll discover your negotiating behavioral style...
by Laurel Anne Stark
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
If you're feeling confused and overwhelmed about how to use Social Media as a marketing tool, you are not alone.This book cuts through confusing lingo and contradictory advice to bring you up to speed in under 10,000 words. Complete with printable cheat sheets, this book will quickly position...
Shaping the College Curriculum
Academic Plans in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Shaping the College Curriculum focuses on curriculum development as an important decision-making process in colleges and universities. The authors define curriculum as an academic plan developed in a historical, social, and political context. They identify eight curricular elements that are addressed,...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
Writing to Win
The Legal Writer
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
From a master teacher, a results-oriented approach to powerful legal writing that communicates, that persuades--and that wins.
Of all the professions, the law has the most deserved reputation for opaque, jargon-clogged writing. Legal education, which focuses on judicial opinions, not instruments...
Discovering God
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics
The History of God
In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and wrestles with the central questions of religion and belief.
by Edwin Stark
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
A doomed vampire hunter. A kid trapped in the sewers with an undead thing. A town that could be yours… but hides a terrible, dark secret. A scary cosmic balance. A dead brother and his revenge beyond the grave. An unspeakable future and three eerie girls: all these elements lurk within Cuentos,...
Nobody Runs Forever
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...