Stern: 685 books
by Steven B Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This comprehensive guide lists descriptive information for every European riverboat and hotel barge, including vital statisitics, stateroom size, descriptions of public ares, dining and shipboard facilities, and itineraries. Each vessel is evaluated as to comfort and luxury. Hundreds of photos of the...
With Charity for All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem...
But Wait ... There's More!
Tighten Your Abs, Make Millions, and Learn How the $100 Billion Infomercial Industry Sold Us Everything But the Kitchen Sink
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Whether it was a Ginsu knife, George Foreman Grill, Tony Robbins' motivational book, kitchen device by Ron Popeil, or any of the countless other famous products that have been marketed on infomercials over the years, admit it: you or someone you know has bought one—and you're not alone. Last year,...
by Julia A. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the...
Five Germanys I Have Known
A History & Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a...
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to...
by Elazar Stern
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In all the command positions that he held, General Elazar Stern knew that the role of the Israel Defense Forces was not limited solely to achieving victory on the battlefield. Many of the tasks that he undertook in over three decades of service to his country required moral courage whether it was...
Regulating Wall Street
The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economy
The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home. In Regulating...
The Economics of Climate Change
The Stern Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this...
Twice Upon a Time
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
More sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel Stern
In Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature—from Forster to Freud—in homage to their authors and the power of great writing.Twice Upon a Time continues...
Terror in the Name of God
Why Religious Militants Kill
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic jihadi...
Twice Told Tales
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Daniel Stern’s sparkling reinventions of six great literary works
Twice Told Tales is a new take on some of literature’s greatest stories. In a bravura performance, acclaimed novelist Daniel Stern channels the particular styles and spirits of six classic pieces—even the writings of Sigmund...
I Had a Ball
My Friendship with Lucille Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Knowing how much Mom liked Michael Stern, I knew his book would be honestand it is. I HAD A BALL is full of stories no one but Michael would know. His friendship with Mom is evident on every page. A good read. Thank you Michael.
DESI ARNAZ JR .
Michaels memories are my memories, only clearer....