A James: 1347 books
Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos
A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas
The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several species...
by Little, James A., Richards
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1900
We consider the Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price and sayings of Joseph, the Seer, our guides in faith and doctrine. The first four have been adopted as such by a vote of the Saints in General Conference. Reference to other writings are only for illustration...
Mutative Media
Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mutative Media is a sweeping examination of how communication technologies have contributed to changes in people’s thoughts and actions, and thus in the power structures of societies, in the past, at present, and in four alternative futures.
We start by surveying what is generally known about...
Salmon Without Rivers
A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by other animals. Since the turn of the twentieth century, natural productivity of salmon in...
by James A. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
The year is 1988, but for Frank it's the wrong age to live in. His penchant for exuberant Victorian fashions and antiquated literature marks him out as a laughing stock amongst his fellow workers in the London city branch of Marks and Spencer's, Gracechurch Street. When Frank finds an old hardback book...
Conversations with Tocqueville
The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville's contributions to the...
by Marcus Dods, James Orr, Robert Rainy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Though this Course is occasioned by the recent Gifford Lectures of Professor Pfleiderer, there is neither intention nor need of beginning a personal conflict between present Lecturers and him. The mere fact that as yet many only know Dr. Pfleiderer’s views from newspaper summaries, prevents a thorough...
Constitutional Interpretation
The Basic Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Ronald Dworkin famously argued that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as written calls for a fusion of constitutional law and moral philosophy. Barber and Fleming take up that call, arguing for a philosophic approach to constitutional interpretation. In doing so, they systematically critique...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
by James A. Janke
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Very late in the Civil War Confederate Colonel Thaddius Kingsley and the tattered remnants of his regiment board the steamboat West Wind in St. Joseph, Missouri. He tells Captain Zachary Cole that the war is lost and they are heading for the goldfields in Montana so they can return to their homes...
A Noble and Independent Course
The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than thirty-five years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells Mitchell’s life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of his college essays,...
Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg
A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
150 years after the event, the grand near-suicidal attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enthusiasts like no other aspect of the battle. On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered more than 12,000 Southern infantry to...
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place...
The Ulster Unionist Party
Country Before Party?
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Unionist Party...