Daniel Thomas: 157 books
Birds of Peru
Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. Concise descriptions and color distribution maps are located...
by Beau Bothwell, Daniel Guberman, Mei Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical,...
Philosophy of Childhood Today
Exploring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal...
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese...
by Alberto Anelli, Rocco Gangle, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary...
Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that...
Making EU Foreign Policy
National Preferences, European Norms and Common Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.
Turn, Turtle!
Reenacting The Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move...
by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Kathleen Barrett, Henry F. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The European Union (E.U.), along with the Council of Europe, NATO, and the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe are regional organizations which, despite their different missions, all are designed to support democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The E.U. has required that all of its...
Reforming the European Union
Realizing the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty revisions. In late 2009, however, the EU was successfully reformed through the Treaty of Lisbon. Reforming the European Union examines how political leaders...
Surgery of the Skin E-Book
Procedural Dermatology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Master the latest medical and cosmetic procedures with Surgery of the Skin, the most comprehensive dermatological surgery resource available. Written from the surgeon’s perspective, this medical reference book features step-by-step guidance on performing the most updated developments and cutting...
Collaborative Parish Leadership
Contexts, Models, Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago...