George James: 287 books

Book cover of Anthropology of Los Angeles

Anthropology of Los Angeles

Place and Agency in an Urban Setting

by Maryann Aguirre, Beth F. Baker, Jenny Banh
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
Book cover of The Burning of Columbia South Carolina: Two Views
by George Nichols, James M'Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011

Two views of the burning of Columbia as Shermans Troops defeated the confederate forces in and around Columbia.
Book cover of Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Book cover of Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The eye of the traveller, however, on the London road, in tracing this stream farther up, came upon a clump of tall old trees disencumbered of all brushwood, spreading wide at the top, but ungarnished by boughs or green leaves below, and affording habitation to a multitude of busy rooks, whose inharmonious...
Book cover of Mary of Burgundy: The Revolt of Ghent
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It was on the evening of a beautiful day in the beginning of September, 1456--one of those fair autumn days that wean us, as it were, from the passing summer, with the light as bright, and the sky as full of rays, as in the richest hours of June; and with nothing but a scarce perceptible shade of yellow...
Book cover of Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
by Charles James Lever, George Cruikshank
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. When some years ago we took the liberty, in a volume of our so-called “Confessions, ” to introduce to our reader's acquaintance the gentleman whose name figures in the title page, we subjoined a brief notice, by himself, intimating the...
Book cover of The First Great Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
by James R Barth, George G Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental...
Book cover of Wireless Security: Know It All
by Jon S. Wilson, John Rittinghouse, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf! Communications engineers need...
Book cover of What is an Emotion?

What is an Emotion?

The Physiology of Emotion

by George F. Blandford, Alfred Fouillé, William James
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

What is an Emotion? Our natural way of thinking about the standard emotions is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression. The thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow...
Book cover of Conversations about Energy

Conversations about Energy

How the Experts See America's Energy Choices

by Jeremy Carl, James E. Goodby, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
Book cover of Navigating the Energy Maze

Navigating the Energy Maze

The Transition to a Sustainable Future

by Roger James Kuhns, George H. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

This book presents essential information for the development of a comprehensive sustainable energy policy. It examines the diverse types of energy, their resource abundance and the material needs to develop and use them, and how communities and cities can better control their own destinies by locally...
Book cover of Deterrence

Deterrence

Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010

by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, James E. Goodby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
Book cover of The Politics and Economics of Park Management
by Stephanie Presber James, George R. Hughes, Donald R. Leal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000

The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a transformation from 'fortress parks' to a sustainable use model. The contributors—park management, academics, and members of nongovenmental organizations—contend...
Book cover of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

A Study in Magic and Religion

by Sir James George Frazer, Sir
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1998

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15)...
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