Globalization

Globalization
Author: Michael M. Weinstein
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231134583

Ten experts offer forthright views on the problems & promises of globalisation.

With God on Our Side

With God on Our Side
Author: Michael L. Weinstein
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466859970

One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society. In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country. With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. military. It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation's military mission. Weinstein's war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into "right-thinking" warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country. An important book at a critical time in our nation's history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man's courageous struggle to thwart a creeping evangelism permeating America's military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have power.

Postmodernized Simmel

Postmodernized Simmel
Author: Deena Weinstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317831594

Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory

The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving

The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving
Author: Michael M. Weinstein
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231535244

The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the foundation's senior vice president. In that role he developed its metrics-based approach, called "relentless monetization," to ensure that the money the foundation receives and grants is used most effectively. Ralph M. Bradburd has served as long-time consultant to Robin Hood on matters of metrics. In this book Weinstein and Bradburd show how to implement the Robin Hood approach and explain how any nonprofit organizations or philanthropic donor can use it to achieve the greatest benefit from every philanthropic dollar. Drawing on their extensive knowledge, the authors devote specific chapters to the difficulties most frequently encountered by donors trying to measure the benefits of their initiatives.. This book provides straightforward, targeted advice for funding "smart" nonprofit programs.

Michael A. Weinstein

Michael A. Weinstein
Author: Robert L. Oprisko
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317747615

This book is a major reassessment of Michael Weinstein’s political philosophy. It situates his singular contribution, designated as "critical vitalism," in the context of both canonical American and contemporary continental theory. Weinstein is presented as a philosopher of life and as an American Nietzsche. Yet the contributors also persuasively argue for this form of thinking as a prescient prophecy addressing contemporary society’s concern over the management of life as well as the technological changes that both threaten and sustain intimacy. This is the first full scale study of Weinstein’s work which reveals surprising aspects of a philosophic journey that has encompassed most of the major American (pragmatic or vitalist) or Continental (phenomenological or existential) traditions. Weinstein is read as a comparative political theorist, a precursor to post-structuralism, and as a post-colonial border theorist. A different aspect of his oeuvre is highlighted in each of the book’s three sections. The opening essays comprising the "Action" diptych contrasts meditative versus extrapolative approaches; "Contemplation" stages a series of encounters between Weinstein and his philosophic interlocutors; "Vitalism" presents Weinstein as a teacher, media analyst, musician, and performance artist. The book contains an epilogue written by Weinstein in response to the contributors.

Guns and Garlic

Guns and Garlic
Author: Frederic D. Homer
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1974
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780911198386

The author acknowledges the contribution of David A. Caputo.

Stationery Flight

Stationery Flight
Author: Michael Weinstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781879384460

"Stationery Flight" is a collection of thirty new, advanced designs for paper airplanes that defy the everyday concept of what aircraft should look like. A description of each plane's aerodynamic properties accompanies the easy-to-follow, fully illustrated folding instructions. These amazing airplanes range from simple craft that anyone can fold with ease, to more complex designs for the skilled folder. There's even a biplane that really flies, and a bomb-wielding jet that can launch a missile in mid-flight!

No Snowflake in an Avalanche

No Snowflake in an Avalanche
Author: Michael L. Weinstein
Publisher: Vireo Book, A
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780983925538

The author, an Air Force Academy graduate and father of graduates, goes deep inside the world of religious extremism in America's military and political infrastructure. He brings to light the evangelicals' disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that he argues is essential to the nation's military mission. Weinstein's war pits him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens--of varying religious backgrounds--against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into "right-thinking" warriors more befitting a theocracy than democracy

Ten Times Chai

Ten Times Chai
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781612549262

Michael Weinstein gives readers a tour of 180 beautiful synagogues throughout the boroughs of New York City. This coffee-table book¿s 613 photos represent each of the mitzvot, or commandments, of Judaism in the Torah. Michael shares the dates that these stunning synagogues were founded as well as their names, including their English translations.