A James: 1347 books
A History of Microbiology in Philadelphia: 1880 to 2010
Including a Detailed History of the Eastern Pennsylvania Branch of the American Society for Microbiology from 1920 to 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
In the 1880s, bacteriology started to become an identifiable discipline of science as it separated from established fields of medicine such as pathology, histology and microscopy. It was during this period that Philadelphia medical students traveled to Europe to learn more about this new specialty...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
by Richard Rohr with a foreword by James Martin, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Explores the challenges, the rewards, the call, and the possibilities of integrating a sincere inner life with an active life of engagement with the pain of the world.
Mormon Crises
Anatomy of a Failing Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Mitt Romney's run for President of the United States and the recent success of the Broadway play “Book of Mormon” has created enormous interest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In spite of enormous media focus during this so-called Mormon Moment, coverage has been often shallow...
by James A. Misko
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
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Miles Foster is a newly minted teacher who dreams of getting a teaching...
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...
by James A Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Dramatic changes in political institutions and behavior over the past three decades have underscored the dynamic nature of American politics, confronting political scientists with a new and pressing intellectual agenda. The pioneering work of early postwar scholars, while laying a firm empirical foundation...
Root Cause Analysis Handbook
A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way? Safety, health, environmental quality, reliability, production, and security are at stake. You need the long-term planning that will keep the same issues from recurring. Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A...
Becoming an Engaged Campus
A Practical Guide for Institutionalizing Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Becoming an Engaged Campus offers campus leaders a systematic and detailed approach to creating an environment where public engagement can grow and flourish. The book explains not only what to do to expand community engagement and how to do it, but it also explores how to document, evaluate, and communicate...
The Basics of Media Writing
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism,...
Global Marshall Plan
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Computer simulations of a model of a massive, world-wide foreign aid program—a Global Marshall Plan— suggest that world poverty might be virtually eliminated within 50 years without reducing living standards in the rich nations. These results suggest the advisability of initiating a real-world...
The Idea of Home in Law
Displacement and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas concerning...
The European Union
Dilemmas Of Regional Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The European Union: Dilemmas of Regional Integration is a readable, informative volume for students and instructors of introductory and intermediate courses in international relations and comparative politics. Since the daily activities of the European Union cut across the comparative/IR distinction,...
Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering
Architecting the Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This book presents Systems Engineering from a modern, multidisciplinary engineering approach, providing the understanding that all aspects of systems design, systems, software, test, security, maintenance and the full life-cycle must be factored in to any large-scale system design; up front, not factored...