Andrew Jones: 63 books
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
The Promise of Despair
The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Where is God present in the world? What hope does the church offer to folks who are struggling with death and despair in their many forms, from broken relationships to lost jobs to the seeming lack of meaning in our late-modern context? Some answer these questions by pointing to churches that have...
The Archaeology of Art
Materials, Practices, Affects
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity?
Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by focusing on iconography, meaning, communication and identity....
by Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a...
by Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Teresa Bago d'Uva
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.
This second...
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
by David Allan, Pam Perkins, Catherine Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society
A Community of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying...
Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
by Andrew Prentice, John Knight, W.P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Newnes Building Services Pocket Book is a unique compendium of essential data, techniques and procedures, best practice, and underpinning knowledge. This makes it an essential tool for engineers involved in the design and day-to-day running of mechanical services in buildings, and a valuable reference...
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...