C James: 778 books
by Arthur C. Nelson, Liza K. Bowles, Julian C. Juergensmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Impact fees are one-time charges that are applied to new residential developments by local governments that are seeking funds to pay for the construction or expansion of public facilities, such as water and sewer systems, schools, libraries, and parks and recreation facilities. In the face of taxpayer...
by K.B. Spangler, Michael J. Martinez, Mary Robinette Kowal
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Geeky Giving’s authors—15 bright stars in the science fiction and fantasy community—explore what happens when leading-edge science fuels fiction in this anthology inspired by the work at Barrow Neurological Foundation.
In these pages you’ll find authors explore the consequences of targeting...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...
by Matthew Hawkins, Michael G. Strawser, Eric C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider...
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen...
Paths to State Repression
Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic...
Homo Domesticus
Une histoire profonde des premiers États
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Servi par une érudition étourdissante, une plume agile et un sens aigu de la formule, Homo domesticus nous offre une synthèse brillante et sans équivalent de l'histoire des premiers États, de la naissance de l'agriculture aux premiers centres urbains, démontant implacablement le grand récit...
by Frederick M Azar, MD, Michael J. Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This issue of Orthopedics Clinics will be surveying a broad range of topics across sub-specialty areas on Evidence-based Medicine in Orthopedics. Each issue in the series is edited by an experienced team of surgeons from the Campbell Clinic. Articles will discuss the following topics, among others:...
by Frederick M Azar, MD, Michael J. Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This issue of Orthopedic Clinics will cover a variety of important topics surrounding Outpatient Surgery. Each issue in the series is edited by an experienced team of surgeons from the Campbell Clinic. Articles will discuss the following topics: Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty; Total Hip Arthroplasty...
Blackjack-34 (previously titled No Greater Love)
One Deadly Day of Courage, Carnage, and Ultimate Sacrifice for the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
“Here we go, I said to myself as my system electrified with the familiar rush of adrenaline.”
On July 18, 1967, Staff Sergeant James Donahue and the men of Special Forces Detachment A-304 were on an operation; code-name Blackjack-34. Their mission: to find and engage an enemy battalion...
by James C. Klagge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) grew up surrounded by art, music, and a disturbing amount of dysfunctional behavior. After studying mechanical engineering and developing an interest in aeronautics, he became obsessed with mathematics...