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  • The Accidental President

    by I Michael Grossman ...
    The last man standing?Earth is in crisis. And the intergalactic managers who oversee all creatures of the Milky Way Galaxy are tasked to bottom-line man's usefulness. Should they let homo sapiens survive or watch them continue to their own destruction?To answer that, the extraterrestrials charged with evaluating us as a species discover incredible truths about who we are – the good, the bad, the ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Favourite Comedian

    by Michael Grossman ...
    If you've ever been forced to go on a family holiday to the middle of nowhere, you know it's like getting a filling at the dentists. Everything from the long drives, boring day trips and beds that wage war on your spine, make it anything but a fun experience.The thought of a two week holiday with his mother and annoying sister did not excite Jake Archibald one bit. If they were taking him to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legacy of the Trump Administration

    A Disruptive Presidency

    Edited by Michael Grossman, Francis Schortgen, Ronald Eric Matthews Jr., David B. Cohen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the legacy of the first Trump administration on a variety of different fronts. Whether it was the extensive use of Twitter, the tendency to express controversial, and often dubious views, or to even slander foreign leaders, Trump was a disruptive president. The presidency of Donald Trump raises questions for political scientists and researchers. How consequential was he? While ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Achievements and Legacy of the Obama Presidency

    “Hope and Change?”

    Edited by Michael Grossman, Ronald Eric Matthews, Francis Schortgen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan and disciplinary divides. The chapters in this book are grouped into three major legacy categories: domestic policy, foreign policy, and rhetoric. Domestically, the contributors examine the “Obama coalition” and its staying power in the age of Trump, President Obama's ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Shrinkwrapped: my first fifty years on the couch

    by I Michael Grossman ...
    “Grossman has spent dozens of years and thousands of dollars talking to shrinks— so we don’t have to. “Just when you know you have to give up on life,” concludes Grossman, “It turns around and bathes you in its goodness.” Read this; maybe there is enough sunshine to go around!”—William T. Merkel, PhD, ABPP Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology Co-author of One ... Read more

    $3.95 USD

  • National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium

    Defining a Place in a Changing World

    Edited by Michael Grossman, Francis Schortgen, Gordon M. Friedrichs ...
    Series series Role Theory and International Relations
    National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium examines the transformation of the international system through an examination of the role conceptions adopted by the different global actors.Advancing current role theory scholarship in International Relations, the contributors take as their starting point the question of how international actors are responding to the reordering of the global system. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Leviticus Rats Experiment

    A Thinking Person’s Science Fiction Story

    by Michael Grossman ...
    Although this book is pure fiction, none of the phenomena it describes are beyond the possible. Super intelligence, telepathy, other dimensions, intelligent extraterrestrial life, travel through wormholes and living in good health for hundreds of years are no longer just the imaginings of science fiction wonks. We are on the brink of the incredible. Best, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Jew

    by Michael Grossman ...
    Even if you are agnostic or hard-core atheist there is a dazzling, thought-expanding, bright side to religion you may have overlooked. Living a spiritual life in the tradition of the Jewish faith, does not mean mindless adherence to outdated dogma. Judaism, instead, can be a source of exhilarating wonder, an inspiration to justice, and an impetus to ever increasing knowledge. Nowadays, even many ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Coming to Terms with Aging

    The Secret to Meaningful Time

    by I Michael Grossman ...
    While many societies embrace aging, ours shuns it. We hide signs of aging and whistle past our mortality. We have euphemisms to avoid the “D” word. We create a new apartheid- based on age- that segregates elders in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. All our fear of aging- our denial- undervalues time and erodes our self-esteem.Imagine the benefits of coming to terms with aging.Coming to ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Demand for Health

    A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

    by Michael Grossman ...
    A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body of health economics literature. It is well past time to bring this important work back into print ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Determinants of Health

    An Economic Perspective

    by Michael Grossman ...
    This collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book’s four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. An afterword discusses the significance of Grossman’s approach for subsequent research on health economics, as well ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • The Power

    by I Michael Grossman ...
    That breathing behind you is Edwin.Of all men, why would the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen reachthrough the ages to give Edwin–an inconsequential insuranceactuarial–the power to be invisible? Edwin gets his reality-alteringability at a museum exhibit when his existential dive andtransformations begin.Routinely ignored by women, Edwin first uses his power asa voyeur. Later, when his nemesis Imelda fires ... Read more

    $2.99 USD