Zuckerman: 64 books
The Potato
How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1999
The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World...
by Gordon Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
During the financial devastation of the 1920-'30,a group of German Industrialist assume control of their government by supporting Hitler and his Nazi Party's rise to power. Goals of Nationalism turn in a quest for global Aryan Supremacy, leading a world to war. In 1943, the Sentinels learn of an attempt...
by Gordon Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
By 2013, the American economy is sliding under the rising tide of over spending and increasing indebtedness. Five years following the 2008 bursting of the great consumer bubble, the country is dangerously over-leverage and under-employed. Unable to balance spending with earned income, the United States...
Pharmaceutical Metrics
Measuring and Improving R & D Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'What gets measured gets fixed' and this is as true of the pharmaceutical industry as any other. The problem is that pharmaceutical businesses are complex. Drug research and development involves extended and expensive processes; defining appropriate metrics for these processes is not easy, yet ineffective...
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Cosmopoliti digitali nell'era della globalità
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
L’immenso potere di Internet e delle nuove tecnologie ci ha fatto credere che il crescente numero di persone connesse avrebbe inevitabilmente portato a un mondo più piccolo e più cosmopolita. Niente di più falso. La tendenza umana a fare gruppo e a interessarsi a quanto la circonda fa sì che...
by Jane N. Zuckerman, Gary Brunette, Peter Leggat
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This 1st edition of Essential Travel Medicine provides an excellent concise introduction to the specialty of Travel Medicine. This core text will enable health care practitioners particularly those new to the clinical practice of Travel Medicine, to gain a fundamental understanding of the diverse...
The Greatest Trade Ever
The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how...
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund
A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different...
by Elizabeth Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Benjamin Franklin was a natural leader and helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
As one of America's most versatile of the Founding Fathers, Ben began his career in his brother's printing press. He wrote articles for The New England Courant, the first newspaper...
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...
It Happened in New York City
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Gotham, It Happenedin New York City describes everything from the installation of the Statue of Liberty to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, from the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11 to the construction of the new Yankee stadium, slated to open in 2009.
The Nonreligious
Understanding Secular People and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Linda Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Don Freeman, the creator of Corduroy, was one of the most beloved and popular author/illustrators of picture books for children. After Freeman’s death in 1978, colleagues and his wife decided to use his never before published artwork and make a commemorative book using his wonderful illustrations....