Author: Marc Dachy
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: art, revolt, dada, discoveries
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0810992558
ISBN-13: 9780810992559

Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries(r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way. Dada was one of the most important and influential movements in 20th-century art. Beginning in the anti-establishment climate around World War I, it encompassed painting, sculpture, photography, poetry and language, graphic design,

Author: Marc Lange
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: energy, mass, fields, locality, philosophy, physics, introduction
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0631225013
ISBN-13: 9780631225010

Combines physics, history, and philosophy in a radical new approach to introducing the philosophy of physics. An ideal guide for those who want to go beyond the equations and discover what physics reveals about reality. Softcover. Hardcover available.

Author: Marc Vassallo
Publisher: Taunton Pre
Keywords: casual, living, design, dressed, home, barefoot
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1561588075
ISBN-13: 9781561588077

Marc Vassallo’s The Barefoot Home should come with a warning label: "This Book May Cause You to Sell, Buy, or Remodel a House within Hours of Reading." Gorgeous photographs fill this book to the brim, and every page that is not covered with photos and mini house plans called "footprints" is full of smart, helpful, inspirational text. Vassallo wants you to read The Barefoot Home as much as he wants to enjoy the stunning layout. He lays out the ground rules in the first few pages in his chapter called "barefoot dreams," in which he asks readers to "Pour yourself a tall glass of something c

Author: Marc Mancini
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Keywords: industry, line, cruise, guide, cruising
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2003-08-22
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 140184006X
ISBN-13: 9781401840068

Comprehensive profiles of two dozen cruise lines, a study of cruises by their geographic itineraries, and an insider’s view of cruise sales, marketing, and operations make this the only guide needed for learning how to succeed in the cruise industry. The content has been written in a magazine-style manner, making it easy and fun to read. And the author has applied a number of educational strategies, lending to Cruising’s easy learning manner. Particular attention is placed on key terms and phrases for better comprehension, activities and discussion items reinforce the concepts, and photos, g

Author: Marc Lavoie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: economics, keynesian, post, introduction
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0230007805
ISBN-13: 9780230007802

This book offers an easy to read introduction to post-Keynesian economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian economics is founded on realistic assumptions and stylized facts, such as interest targeting by central banks or constant average variable costs in manufacturing and services. The author shows how these more realistic foundations give rise to macroeconomic implications that are entirely different from those of received wisdom with regards to employment, output growth, inflation and monetary theory. For in

Author: Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: america, judaism, jews, history, columbia
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0231132220
ISBN-13: 9780231132220

This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience.The volume opens with early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II

Author: Marc Cerasini
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Keywords: man, cinderella
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0060779586
ISBN-13: 9780060779580

Set in New York in the Depression, this is the story of Jim Braddock, who takes up boxing to make money to feed his family, and eventually goes up against champ Max Baer, notorious for having killed two men in the ring. James J. Braddock, born in New York City, was known locally for his thunderous right hand and successful amateur boxing career. After turning professional, he defeated foe after foe, and his rapid rise from obscurity earnt him the nickname, the Cinderella Man. He was given a shot at the world light heavyweight title against champion Tommy Loughran in 1929, but lost in a 15–ro