Christopher J: 535 books
Alsace to the Alsatians?
Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated...
by Christopher J. Holcroft
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Kit Green is your average teenager except he has had a near death experience. He died on the operating table after a pool accident and is sent back to Earth to complete his life.
Essentials of Computational Chemistry
Theories and Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Essentials of Computational Chemistry provides a balanced introduction to this dynamic subject. Suitable for both experimentalists and theorists, a wide range of samples and applications are included drawn from all key areas. The book carefully leads the reader thorough the necessary equations providing...
Who's #1?
100-Plus Years of Controversial National Champions in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
There's nothing quite as controversial in American sports as college football's national championship, making it common fodder for talk around the water cooler as well as loftier debates among professional journalists in the sports pages. Walsh takes a comprehensive view of over a century of controversy,...
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked
Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three political...
Specialized Assault Units Of The World War I Western Front:
A Comparative Study Of The German Stormtrooper Battalions, And Canadian Trench Raiders
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This thesis will use a comparative study of the German Storm trooper battalions and the Canadian trench raiders in order to examine the dynamics of the World War I battlefield, the role of military culture in adaptation in order to acknowledge and act on the requirements of battlefield innovation....
See It/Shoot It
The Secret History of the CIA's Lethal Drone Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief,...
We Answered the Call
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Scottie Berrand was not unlike many young American men in the late 1960s and early 70s. He enjoyed cars and respected his elders, especially the men in his family who had answered the call of duty in wars dating back to the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. So when Berrand enlisted and went to Vietnam,...
"WE BELIEVE"
Understanding the Nicene Creed
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A series of sermons expounding the Nicene Creed delivered in Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Vancouver, BC, Canada during Advent 2016 and Lent 2017, with editor's Foreword, texts and bibliography.
Fortune's Favorite
Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When you think of the great heroes of the 18th Century Royal Navy, you would probably think of Horatio Nelson, possibly Sir Sidney Smith; but would the name Sir Charles Douglas spring to mind? If it doesn’t—it should.
Sir Charles Douglas played a pivotal role in many of the most important...
Mapping Applied Linguistics
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students...
by Christopher J. Ballance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This thesis describes experimental work in the field of trapped-ion quantum computation. It outlines the theory of Raman interactions, examines the various sources of error in two-qubit gates, and describes in detail experimental explorations of the sources of infidelity in implementations of single-...
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...
Possessed Women, Haunted States
Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing...