Anthony J : 355 books
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
by Colin J. Brauner, David J. McKenzie, Anthony P. Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates. Volume 26 in the Fish Physiology series presents what is known about the physiology of these fish in comparison with the two fish...
by Robert JP Williams, Blanca Barquera, Jacqui Gulbis
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Metal ions play key roles in biology. Many are essential for catalysis, for electron transfer and for the fixation, sensing, and metabolism of gases. Others compete with those essential metal ions or have toxic or pharmacological effects.
This book is structured around the periodic table and...
by Anthony G. Tyers, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed)
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Known for its superb, step-by-step photo sequences, Colour Atlas of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, 4th Edition, by Drs. A. G. Tyers and J. R. O. Collin, remains your first choice for gaining essential knowledge in oculoplastic surgery. Ideal for both novices and experienced surgeons, this award-winning...
The Great Reflation
How Investors Can Profit From the New World of Money
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
A guide to understanding and thriving in today's new economic environment
Now that the housing and credit bubbles have burst, toppling banks and sending shockwaves through the stock market and around the world, it may seem like the worst has passed. But the full impact of the crises we have...
Common Ground
A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked,...
The Louisiana Field Guide
Understanding Life in the Pelican State
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux,...
Big Trouble
A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Strugg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice...
Building Chris-Craft
Inside the Factories
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2010
For more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the world of motorboating. This market dominance was due in no small part to the design and construction techniques employed in the company’s studios and on its factory floors.
Building Chris-Craft examines the company’s design...
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What’s your entrepreneurial profile?
Do you have what it takes to build a great business?
In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia
The Drums of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family. Records trace the Monacans of Virginia back to the late 1500s, with an estimated population of...