Daniel J : 712 books
Daniel’S Writings
A Poet's Guide to Reconstructing & Reiterating Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book is about self-empowerment and the aspiration to personally grow. Upon reading the poems, the author hopes the reader begins to see the individual power they have to create positive change. The views expressed in the poetry ask the reader to look at any difficult circumstance in a new light...
Hammer and Silicon
The Soviet Diaspora in the U.S. Innovation Economy — Immigration, Innovation, Institutions, Imprinting, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This deeply personal book tells the untold story of the significant contributions of technical professionals from the former Soviet Union to the US innovation economy, particularly in the sectors of software, social media, biotechnology, and medicine. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, it channels...
Like Night and Day
Unionization in a Southern Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher...
(Re)structuring Copyright
A Comprehensive Path to International Copyright Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this bold and persuasive work Daniel Gervais, one of the world’s leading thinkers on the subject of intellectual property, argues that the international copyright system is in need of a root and branch rethink. As the Internet alters the world in which copyright operates beyond all recognition,...
by Daniel J. Meador
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Transformative Years is Daniel Meador's account of his four years as dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970. Those were indeed transformative years, bridging the Law School of the past to the Law School of the future. Working on the premise that this institution was...
A New Plantation World
Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation....
Working with Class
Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question...
Cairo Pop
Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian...
Rim Country Exodus
A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Winner Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
For thousands of years, humans have lived on the sprawling escarpment in Arizona known as the Mogollon Rim, a stretch that separates the valleys of central Arizona from the mountains of the north. A vast portion of this dramatic landscape...
Introducing Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Recovering a Christian Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Theological interpretation of Scripture is a growing trend in biblical interpretation, with an emphasis on the contexts of canon, creed, and church. This approach seeks to bridge the gap between biblical studies and theology, which grew wide with the ascendancy of critical approaches to Scripture....
by Daniel J. Treier
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Pastors and leaders of the classical church interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to...
by Daniel J. Solove
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in...
by Daniel J. Brahier
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Teaching Secondary and Middle School Mathematics combines the latest developments in research, standards, and technology with a vibrant writing style to help teachers prepare for the excitement and challenges of teaching secondary and middle school mathematics today. In the fully revised fifth edition,...
Traveling at the Speed of Thought
Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetected fluctuations in the shape of space-time were first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity,...