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  • The Moving Image

    A User's Manual

    by Peter B. Kaufman ...
    The definitive guidebook for using video in modern communication.Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video. Americans get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. The Moving Image is the first authoritative account of how we have arrived ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Introspection

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    In Introspection, Peter Kaufman, changes focus and starts out by giving readers a major volume of his poetry concerning the ever changing variety of communication, thinking and philosophy, of all kinds, in human life today; included is the assistance of an exceptional artist who again adds her illustrative talent to the printed word. C P Snow, a great writer, wrote in Th e Realist, Preface, 1978, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Skull in the Ashes

    Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body.At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge

    by Peter B. Kaufman ...
    How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone?In The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely.Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police—throughout ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Distressed Investment Banking - To the Abyss and Back - Second Edition

    by Peter S. Kaufman, Henry F. Owsley ...
    This classic book, now in its second edition, is an authoritative source about the restructuring of troubled companies. It provides an insider's view on the methods and complexities of this highly specialized area of investment banking. Owsley and Kaufman are widely acknowledged leaders in this field and are the senior partners at Gordian Group, a top-tier boutique investment banking firm ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Agendas and Choices

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    Agendas and Choices illustrates and examines the intricate predispositions, habits, and agendas and choices which form and become the personalities of the characters in the books five major parts--- which are four Stories and one Novella. There are imposed Agendas and Choices for example (like a WWII, which can also help to create a final personality profile); there are, of course, personal ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Human Nature

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    Human Nature captures the essence of people. It is a book of short stories and poems that shares a window into the lives of innocent souls as well as the lives of those that take advantage of them. It takes us back to life in the 1940’s and carries us to the present day. These stories prove that Human Nature has not changed over the years, nor will it ever. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Double Six

    12 Themes

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    In Double Six, Peter Kaufman presents twelve timely themes in a collection that examines and illustrates not only the characters depicted in the themes but many cultural realities. In addition, there are narratives like those in Mr. Kaufmans three prior volumes. Of particular note are: Learning Spanish: a Memoir, a non-fiction work based on the experiences of his long, long-time friend, guitar ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Natural Products from Plants

    by Leland J. Cseke, Ara Kirakosyan, Peter B. Kaufman, Sara Warber, James A. Duke, Harry L. Brielmann ...
    2008 NOMINEEThe Council on Botanical and Horticultural LibrariesAnnual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural LiteratureFrom medicinal, industrial, and culinary uses to cutting-edge laboratory techniques in modern research and plant conservation strategies, Natural Products from Plants ... Read more

    $254.99 USD

  • Domino~~Razzia

    Two Complete Stories

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    In these two stories, Peter Kaufman tells us about choices made in the pursuit of wealth during two tendentious cultural periods. DOMINO takes place, after a brief prologue, in Southern California toward the end of the Great Depression; RAZZIA is set in Algeria after the Great War. These are masterful, complex stories where there are those who survive and those who do not. These narratives ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Autumn Leaves and Other Events

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    Autumn Leaves And Other Events is a complex collection of challenges to the reader to encounter life as the characters in Autumn Leaves do through illustrative scenes, plots, lectures, dialog, poetry and/or subjective reality hidden throughout the books five story configurations; for some perhaps, they will revisit their past before they can hope to understand or cope with it. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Vetting and Other Stories

    by Peter Kaufman ...
    Peter Kaufman returns with another 13 stories filled with real, but fictional, characters. There are eccentrics, petty criminals, swindlers, drunkards, MI5, MI6, OSI agents, a beautiful/romantic woman on a cruise, an Italian family, a Jewish couple engaged in daily battles of wit, the dramatic 'S' gals and victims of unforeseen circumstances. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD