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In this groundbreaking book, Tom Wolff spells out six proven principles for creating collaborative solutions for healthy communities. The Power of Collaborative Solutions addresses contemporary social problems by helping people of diverse circumstances and backgrounds work together to solve communit... अधिक

Bestselling author Tom Wolfe introduces the 1960s through essays about extravagant new styles of life, the Beatles, bouffant hairdos, Kar Kustomizers, and much more.... अधिक

After completing military service, veterans can have a difficult time finding employment when returning to civilian life. <p><p>Out of Uniform, Second Edition is designed to help all transitioning military personnel, regardless of service, branch, rank, rating, time in service, time in grade, or s... अधिक

<p><p>DUPONT UNIVERSITY-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... <p>Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly ... अधिक

The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a cast of heroes, introduced to America with the explosion of space exploration in the romantic heyday of the 20th century and encapsulated in Neal Armstrong's "one giant step for mankind." <p><p>Beginning with the first experiments with manned space ... अधिक

The magazine that is the city that is the world. Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades.... अधिक

<P>The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. <P>Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, p... अधिक

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. <p><p>As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. <p><p>Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban... अधिक

Ten non-fiction articles about a variety of subjects, from contemporary art to neuroscience, and a novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg."... अधिक

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of acclaimed publications, including the text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, and his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.... अधिक

Set in New York City, a place combining ethnic diversity, fights to be at the top of society as well as poverty and many living corrupt lives. The main settings range from the civilized world of busy 5th Avenue and Central park, to the very different atmosphere of the Bronx - the tale combines how 2... अधिक

Architecture as a lens to magnify a problem you see again and again in human society and human history. ... अधिक

Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London.... अधिक

Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 1960s hippie culture.... अधिक

Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. <p><p>Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in th... अधिक

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... अधिक

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu... अधिक

On Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short fiction. The first section features original essays by well-known authors--including Francine Prose, Joy... अधिक

Survey Methodology is becoming a more structured field of research, deserving of more and more academic attention. The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology explores both the increasingly scientific endeavour of surveys and their growing complexity, as different data collection modes and information s... अधिक

Survey Methodology is becoming a more structured field of research, deserving of more and more academic attention. The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology explores both the increasingly scientific endeavour of surveys and their growing complexity, as different data collection modes and information s... अधिक

In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched hea... अधिक

In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework as it was originally designed and its ... अधिक

In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework as it was originally designed and its e... अधिक

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops of the 15th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2014, held in Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014. The 38 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the 5 following workshops: Second International Wo... अधिक