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

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

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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,  ...
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

Ted Steinberg

Written with exceptional clarity, Down to Earth re-envisions the story of America "from the ground up.
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, ...
Natures Past: The Environment and Human History

Natures Past: The Environment and Human History

Paolo Squatriti

The Commodification of Landscape in Postwar America Ted Steinberg IVEADERS EXPECTING TO LEARN about crabgrass in Kenneth Jackson's award-winning book on suburbanization in the United States, Crabgrass Frontier, will be ...
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.
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in ...

Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in ...

Ted Steinberg

In the face of revelations about how the federal government mishandled the Katrina calamity, this book is a must-read before further wind and water sweep away more lives. Acts of God is a call to action that needs desperately to be heard.
Dead Days: Episodes 1, 2 and 3 (A Zombie Apocalypse Serial):

Dead Days: Episodes 1, 2 and 3 (A Zombie Apocalypse Serial):

Ryan Casey

Ted thrashed around at Riley. “You ungrateful, fucking fu—” Riley covered Ted's mouth. Ted thrashed some more. But as Riley moved away, Ted saw what Riley saw. The front door was partly open. And outside it, behind the frosted glass, ...
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.
Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a ...

Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a ...

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Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). 44. Norbert P. Psuty and Douglas D. Ofiara, Coastal Hazard Management: Lessons and Future Directions from New ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letters of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art.
English Journal

English Journal

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"Ted! Ted! He's Our Man . . Rob Kunik Houghton lake High School Houghton lake , Michigan I mean to say Ted is my man. Lately I have struggled mightily with the type of teacher I will become. Like every student and student teacher out there, I have been bombarded with techniques and styles. They all argue their merits convincingly. If you feel confused, as I did, then Ted Hipple should be your man, too. It all started when I read Ted Hipple's "It's the THAT, Teacher" (EJ, March 1997).
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York

Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York

Ted Steinberg

Adams, “Mosquito Control Work in Nassau County,” 175, 181; R. Marc Fasanella, “The Environmental Design of Jones Beach State Park: Aesthetic and Ecological Aspects of the Park's Architecture and Landscape” (PhD diss., New York Univ., ...
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.
No Turning Back: A Memoir

No Turning Back: A Memoir

Ted Fulton

Ted Fulton prospected for gold, became a patrol officer and served during World War II. Ultimately finding fulfilment in the rugged beauty of Papua New Guinea of which he writes with moving insight the recollections of Ted Fulton are a ...
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.
Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley

Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley

Ted Leeson

Dispatches from the Madison Valley Ted Leeson. I n v e n t i n g M o n t a n a D is pa t c he s F r o m t h e M a dis on V a lle y Ted Leeson Copyright © 2009 by Ted Leeson All RightsReserved. No part.
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.
Jupiter's Travels

Jupiter's Travels

Ted Simon

Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way Round In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty ...
Ted Turner: A Biography: A Biography

Ted Turner: A Biography: A Biography

Michael O'Connor

This book chronicles the life story of Ted Turner—cable television mogul, successful baseball team owner, and fascinating public figure. • Provides a chronology of key events in the life of Ted Turner • Includes a photo essay ...
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 ...

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