Steffen: 395 books
The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For the living, death has a moral dimension. When we confront death and dying in our own lives and in the lives of others, we ask questions about the good, right, and fitting as they relate to our experiences of human mortality. When others die, the living are left with moral questions—questions...
Billy and The Joels - The American rock star and his German family story (eBook)
Foreword by Billy Joel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the 1920s, Karl Amson Joel and his wife Meta founded a mail-order linen goods company in Nuremberg, Germany. The business flourished, and it could have turned out to be a picture-book success story, were it not for the coming to power of Adolf Hitler. To escape the Nazis, the Jewish couple and...
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
An Empiricist's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address...
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
by Steffen Blaese
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Berlin is the city where the world goes to party, but also to live and to experiment with new ideas: social movements, technologies, fashion, art, music, sexuality and multiculturalism. The Berliners are creative, hedonistic, weird and some of the most tolerant people on earth. This guide is a road...
Harlequin Special Edition July 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes Million-Dollar Maverick by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Christine Rimmer, The Bachelor’s...
by Maggie K. Black, Laurie Alice Eakes, Amity Steffen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.
RESCUING HIS SECRET CHILD
True North Heroes
by Maggie K. Black
Trapped with armed hijackers aboard a speeding train in the northern Ontario wilderness, army...
by Steffen Itterheim
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
SpriteBuilder is the fun and versatile game development environment that is a natural successor to Cocos2D, Cocos3D, and Chipmunk2D. In Learn SpriteBuilder for iOS Game Development, experienced game developer and author Steffen Itterheim shows you how to get the most out of SpriteBuilder to create...
Ethics and Experience
Moral Theory from Just War to Abortion
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Ethics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory through provocative moral issues—just war, abortion, physician assisted suicide, the death penalty and more. Steffen helps students bridge the gap between ethical theory and experience through developing a “common agreement”...
Automated Sales
A Systematic Approach to Boosting Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Many businesspeople and salespeople leave their offices at the end of the day without a valuable, measurable, and presentable sales outcome.
Its easy to see why: With distractions flowing from all directions, businesses and salespeople need to focus on what matters to achieve results. After...
Great Commission Companies
The Emerging Role of Business in Missions
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Business as mission has emerged as a significant new model for mission in the twenty-first century. Today's globalized economy has created strategic opportunities for Christian business enterprises in some of the most unlikely corners of the world. In this landmark book, economist Steve Rundle and...
Portuguese Modernisms
Multiple Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time...
Monsters in the Machine
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films...
Die Brüder Grimm
Eine Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Zwei Brüder, die Geschichte schrieben Die Brüder Grimm haben den Klang unserer Kindheit bestimmt. Ihre Sammlung der Kinder- und Hausmärchen ist das weltweit meistgelesene deutsche Buch. Sie waren leidenschaftliche Helden der Gelehrsamkeit und haben das Wissen über unsere Sprache und Geschichte...