D Ward: 68 books
Under a Green Sky
The Once and Potentially Future Greenhou
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
By looking backward at the course of great extinctions, a paleontologist sees what the future holds.
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have...
The Flooded Earth
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This-not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves-will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won't...
Time Machines
Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life forms that once inhabited this planet. Time Machines presents fascinating profiles of the deep past...
by Michael D. Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Spatial Regression Models illustrates the use of spatial analysis in the social sciences within a regression framework and is accessible to readers with no prior background in spatial analysis. The text covers different modeling-related topics for continuous dependent variables, including: mapping...
Maximum Likelihood for Social Science
Strategies for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This volume provides a practical introduction to the method of maximum likelihood as used in social science research. Ward and Ahlquist focus on applied computation in R and use real social science data from actual, published research. Unique among books at this level, it develops simulation-based...
Policing and Race in America
Economic, Political, and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the...
by Samuel D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Vice Admiral Joseph P. Metcalf, III commanded the largest American joint military operation since the Vietnam War on the small Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983. This paper focuses on Metcalf’s operational leadership during Operation URGENT FURY. It begins by providing the readers an introduction...
Rare Earth
Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life...
by Mario A. Rivera, James D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and procedures which disadvantage ethnic minority groups are supported and maintained. It is often the direct linkage and thus the underlying cause for the lack...
Real Food
The Adolescents' Guide On How To Actually Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
From the creators of "For Real" comes "Real Food" - the adolescents' guide on how to actually cook. Containing everything from what to equip yourself with as a first time young cook, to all the different methods of cooking an egg. This condensed, comprehensive guide contains everything...
by Herbert D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
On the morning of the eighth of June, 1893, at about ten o'clock, crowds were seen clustered in front of the daily newspaper bulletins in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston. The excitement rivalled that occasioned by the assassination of Garfield, and by night the country was...
by Randi D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN ME (MY EGYPTIAN FANTASY CAME TRUE) is a love story of Egypt and Egyptians. An ordinary American woman traveled to Cairo alone to teach and had the greatest adventure of her life. She went there to enable young Egyptians to become more fluent in English, but she became a student...
Lemuria
The Lost Continent of the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Beneath the rolling, restless seas lie the mysteries of forgotten civilizations. Swept by the tides, half buried in the sands, worn away by terrific pressure, are the remnants of a culture little known to our age of today. Where the mighty Pacific now rolls in a majestic sweep of thousands of miles,...
Fuhrer's Heart
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
"Fuhrer´s Heart: An American Story" is a suspense thriller set in the New Orleans academic world and inspired by the David Duke era in Louisiana politics. Full of suspicious deaths, action, conspiracies, and sex; the author adds to this tumultuous mix a great dose of racial tension and...