World of Books - Find your book here

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

Michael P. Steinberg

5 The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History Michael P. Steinberg I Between 1934 and 1937, while living in political exile, in financial panic, and in almost total obscurity, Walter Benjamin wrote the life of Eduard Fuchs ...
Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the ...

Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the ...

John Konnayil Vincent

Joseph. S. Steinberg. Don't overpay, no matter what the madding crowd is up to.l —Ian M. Cumming and Joseph S. Steinberg Ian Cumming and Joseph Steinberg run Leucadia National Corporation, a holding company with many subsidiaries, ...
Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

The electronic version of this title does not contain the 35 Saul Steinberg illustrations that are available in the print edition.
Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa

Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa

Jonny Steinberg

In this provocative new book, Steinberg argues that policing in crowded urban space is like theatre.
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn

American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn

Ted Steinberg

Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian.--Mike Davis
Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS ...

Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS ...

Jonny Steinberg

A heartbreaking tale of shame and pride, sex and death, and a continent's battle with its demons, Steinberg's searing account is a tour-de-force of literary journalism.
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence

Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

With gentle wisdom, Steinberg guides us through truly novel findings on what happens during adolescence and tells us how, as parents and teachers, we should change our ways.” — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph. D., author of The Optimistic ...
Adolescence

Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

As a well-respected researcher, Laurence Steinberg connects current research with real-world application, helping students see the similarities and differences in adolescent development across different social, economic, and cultural ...
Loose Leaf for Adolescence

Loose Leaf for Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

As a well-respected researcher, Laurence Steinberg connects current research with real-world application, helping students see the similarities and differences in adolescent development across different social, economic, and cultural ...
Adolescence

Adolescence

Laurence D. Steinberg

In this tenth edition of Adolescence, Laurence Steinberg continues to utilize an effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research, and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society.
Looseleaf for Adolescence

Looseleaf for Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

In this tenth edition of Adolescence, Laurence Steinberg continues to utilize an effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research, and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society.
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies ...

Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies ...

Stuart C. Gilson

Leucadia was led by Chairman Ian Cumming and President Joseph Steinberg. “ Among public companies, Leucadia is best at what it does,” said an analyst. “ Cumming and Steinberg are workout specialists. Their strength is capitalizing on  ...
Three Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great ...

Three Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great ...

Jonny Steinberg

It is to here that award-winning author Jonny Steinberg travels to explore the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic.
Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City

Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City

Jonny Steinberg

Little Liberia's appeal is universal' Financial Times 'Jonny Steinberg has an unerring eye for personal stories that show wider realities in microcosm... A moving depiction of both a life in exile and a country in turmoil' Metro
Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for ...

Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for ...

Marlene Steinberg

Development of the SCID-D The SCID-D was developed in 1984–1985 by Marlene Steinberg, M.D., Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Field-testing of the SCID-D was ...
Crossing Paths

Crossing Paths

Laurence Steinberg

In Crossing Paths, family-relations expert Dr. Laurence Steinberg examines the impact on parents of their children's adolescence - and finds that confusion and conflict are as common for parents as for teenagers.
Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

John Chaffee

by Ted steinberg Ted Steinberg is a professor of history and law at Case Western University, with a particular interest in the history of American environmental law and policy. His book Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in ...
The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital: Let the ...

The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital: Let the ...

Samuel Steinberg

Let the Hospital Work for You Samuel Steinberg. PART I Everyday Business Activities ofDaily Living: How to Take Charge ofOrienting Yourself to. PART I Everyday Business.
Faith and World: Contemporary Ismaili Social and Political ...

Faith and World: Contemporary Ismaili Social and Political ...

Mohammad N. Miraly

24 Aziz Esmail, “Why History?,” Africa Ismaili (1970), 20–27, http://www.iis.ac.uk/ view_article.asp?ContentID=100996. 25 Steinberg, 91. 26 Esmail, “Why History?. ” 27 Steinberg, 88. 28 Esmail, “Why History?.” 29 Aziz Esmail, “The Role of the ...
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History

Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History

Preview

A recent example ofthis call is found in Ted Steinberg, “Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and History,”American HistoricalReview 107.3 (2002): 798–820. See also Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (New York,  ...
Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide

Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide

Marlene Steinberg

–Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine “Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide by Marlene Steinberg, M.D., is a milestone in instructing professionals in ...
Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern ...

Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern ...

Preview

Theresa Griffin offered careful copy-editing when it was most needed, and Anne Laughlin flawlessly supervised the end-game. I thank Professors Glenn Most, Michael P. Steinberg, Anthony Grafton, Riccardo Di Donato, Deborah L. Krohn, and ...
After the commandos: the future of rural policing in South ...

After the commandos: the future of rural policing in South ...

Jonny Steinberg

the future of rural policing in South Africa Jonny Steinberg, Institute for Security Studies (South Africa). grassroots crime intelligence and organise endeavours of local-level mutual security assistance. Second, they have a force multiplication ...
Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg ...

Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg ...

Michael P. Steinberg

Hofmannsthal's list for the Austrian contingent included Andrian, Thurn und Taxis, Colloredo, Franckenstein, Madame Nelly Grunberger, Dr. Pauker, Baron K. Rothschild, Josef Redlich, and Paul Hellmann (Redlich's brother-in-law).
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, ...

The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, ...

Federico Finchelstein

In the United States, I would also like to thank Michael Steinberg, Vicki Caron, and Mary Roldán, as well as Jeremy Adelman, Alejandro Baer, Ed Baptist, Chris Bilodeau, Alicia Borinsky, Bruno Bosteels, Geoff Eley, Ray Craib, Ben Kiernan, ...
Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education

Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education

Sam Seidel

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seidel, Samuel Steinberg, 1978Hip hop genius : remixing high school education / Samuel Steinberg Seidel. p. cm. Includes ...

who called from an unknown number?