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Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Renegade: The Making of a President
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Revival 2.0: How the Obama White House Is Making Its Political Comeback
Revival 2.0 tells the dramatic inside story of how President Obama and his team have regained their footing and learned to fight for their political survival.Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe (author of Renegade and Revival) follows President Barack Obama and his inner circle (including Va... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Message: The Reselling of President Obama
They had 99 problems but Mitt Romney wasn't one.At the start of an epic election, the team trying to reelect President Obama faced a mountain of challenges: a dismal economy, the faded hopes of the first campaign, and a struggle to raise enough cash to compete. No president had risen so fast, or fal... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Alimentamos una isla: Una historia verdadera sobre la reconstrucción de Puerto Rico
La verdadera historia de cómo un grupo de chefs alimentó a cientos de miles de estadounidenses hambrientos después del huracán María y conmovió los corazones de muchos más.El chef José Andrés llegó a Puerto Rico cuatro días después de que el huracán María azotara la isla. La economía quedó destruida... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
“Imagine a book with the narrative force and the behind-the-scenes revelations of Barbarians at the Gate. Now imagine that what’s at stake isn’t just which rich investment banker gets richer, but rather is one of the great moral issues of our time, restitution for Holocaust survivors. Imagine no mor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Tapas
The first major Spanish cookbook in two decades, from José Andrés, recently named America's Chef of the Year by Bon Appétit.Tapas are Spain's gift to the world of great cooking: a fresh and fun way to eat with friends and family--and easy to make at home. Using simple Mediterranean ingredients, a ta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness
by Richard WolfIn our noisy world, music is the key to inner silence Richard Wolf first tried Zen meditation in his teens, but no matter in what posture or for how long he sat, transcendence proved stubbornly out of reach. It was only years later that he found the bridge that could take him there: music.In Tune ch... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
New Departures in Marxian Theory (Economics as Social Theory)
Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and try... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine
This book is designed to consolidate the relevant literature as well as the thoughts of professionals currently working in the field into a practical and accessible reference for the emergency medical technician, student, nurse, resident, and attending emergency physician. Each chapter is divided i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Declining by Degrees
What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation? Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives. <p><p>When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landma... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult (The\5-minute Consult Ser.)
by Peter Rosen • Stephen R. Hayden • Jeffrey J. Schaider • Richard E. Wolfe • Adam Z. Barkin • Philip Shayne • Roger M. BarkinThe sixth edition of this comprehensive yet concise Rosen & Barkin’s 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult pulls together up-to-date and evidence-based practice guidelines for easy use in a busy emergency department. In just two brief, bullet-friendly, clutter-free pages, you can quickly decipher the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It
A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis"With unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Understanding Marxism
Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans especially now confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown
Praise for Richard Wolff and Democracy at Work:"Richard Wolff's constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contributio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
"Ideas of economic democracy are very much in the air, as they should be, with increasing urgency in the midst of today's serious crises. Richard Wolff's constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable developmen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the EU has performed in facilitating mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding across the globe. Offering an accessible int... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
VoIP Emergency Calling
This book provides a comprehensive view of the emerging standards for VoIP emergency calling from an International perspectiveIn this book, the authors provide a treatment of the VoIP emergency calling process that is both comprehensive, looking at all aspects of emergency calling, and practical, pr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Occupy the Economy
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost jobs, homes, and healthcare. Many with jobs watch pensions, benefits, and job security decline. While most live with increasing uncertainty, the system makes the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening inte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
World Series Heroes
Children's book about baseball players who have made spectacular plays during the World Series. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Soul Whispering: The Art of Awakening Shamanic Consciousness
Restore your relationship with your soul, break through patterns of dysfunction, and learn to hear the intuitive wisdom of your soul’s whisperings• Explores shamanic tools, modern psychotherapy techniques, and ancient indigenous practices, such as the Native American medicine wheel• Explains how to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Edible Oil Processing
Oils and fats are almost ubiquitous in food processing, whether naturally occurring in foods or added as ingredients that bring functional benefits. Whilst levels of fat intake must be controlled in order to avoid obesity and other health problems, it remains the fact that fats (along with proteins ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassica... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism
Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff--two of this volume's editors--began in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001