Chad: 547 books
A Revolution in Military Adaptation
The US Army in the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated...
A Common Man's View
A Fresh Perspective from Middle-Class America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Republicans and Democrats continue to fight with each other, but the truth is that neither side is really presenting Americans with solutions to their most pressing problems.
One reason the so-called mainstream right and left cant understand the struggles of everyday people is that virtually...
China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979
Grain, Trade and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However, this book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that China was highly...
by Chad Al Sauve
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Two years after the death of his mother, Jude Hector’s father, Samuel, takes him and his brother camping in memory of her. But leaving their home in Burlington, Ontario to travel up north to Temagami to rough it in the wild, seemed like a chore rather than leisure for Jude and his little brother...
by Professor Chad V. Meister
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
One of the most perplexing problems facing believers in God is the problem of evil. The words of Epicurus put the point concisely: "Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is...
Analyze Anything
A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen these skills, deepen our awareness of meaning in a complex world, and ultimately reach our...
by Chad Harbach
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Westish College, een kleine universiteit aan de oever van Lake Michigan. De jonge, getalenteerde honkballer Henry Skrimshander is voorbestemd om een ster te worden. Maar wanneer tijdens een wedstrijd een routineworp van zijn hand verkeerd uitvalt, nemen vijf levens een andere wending. Henry's groeiende...
Heidegger's Shadow
Kant, Husserl, and the Transcendental Turn
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Heidegger’s Shadow is an important contribution to the understanding of Heidegger’s ambivalent relation to transcendental philosophy. Its contention is that Heidegger recognizes the importance of transcendental philosophy as the necessary point of entry to his thought, but he nonetheless comes...
by Myles Burnyeat, Kim Paffenroth, Brian R. Clack
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like...
The Spirit of Augustine's Early Theology
Contextualizing Augustine's Pneumatology
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
St Augustine's pneumatology remains one of his most distinctive, decisive, and ultimately divisive contributions to the story of Christian thought. How did his understanding of the Spirit develop? Why does he identity the Spirit with divine love and cosmic order? And from what personal and literary...
How to Play Mah Jongg: A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg
An Instruction Book to Learning the Rules, Sets, and Art of The Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Go-To Instruction Book To Learn The Rules, Sets, And Art Of The Game
How to Play Mah Jongg: A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg offers first-time players an easy-to-follow guide to this complex game. Using simple easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams this comprehensive guide walks...
Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR
Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The complexity and heterogeneity of biological systems has posed an immense challenge in recent years. An increasingly important tool for obtaining molecular and atomic scale information on a range of large biological molecules and cellular components is solid-state NMR. This technique can address...
The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Implications for American Democracy and the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives...
by Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the more complete dimension: the region's longstanding, undocumented economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government scrutiny can be categorized into informal...