Steven Frank: 22 books

Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention. Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...

Perry Rhodan im Koma. Ein Haluter läuft Amok! Zweiter Teil der Drangwalze-Trilogie: Perry Rhodan ist nach der Attacke der Millies verletzt und außer Gefecht. Auris, Gucky, Tom Blast und der Haluter Icho Tolot verfolgen die Angreifer, um die entführte Shira zu befreien. Beim Tolot bricht das kriegerische...

Charlie isn’t looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he’ll finish it. And when he does, he’ll grow older than the brother he recently lost. Armstrong isn’t looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign him up for Opportunity Busing to a white...

NO. MORE. HOMEWORK. That’s what sixth grader Sam Warren tells his teacher while standing on top of his desk. He's fed up with doing endless tasks from the time he gets home to the time he goes to sleep. Suspended for his protest, Sam decides to fight back. He recruits his elderly neighbor/retired...

Following Gertrude Stein’s efforts throughout her life to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, the essays in Primary Stein return the lens to her primary texts, including novels, plays, lectures, poetry, and more. Much textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein’s work, whether...

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day. In...

In the exciting and growing field of hospital medicine, you're as concerned with the efficient management of your unit as you are the effective care of your patients. This title is your ideal new clinical reference on both counts. Nationally recognized experts equip you with practical, actionable...