H Thomas: 629 books

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...

Writer Neal Thurston seeks inspiration for his "great American novel" at the Rancho del Artista near Mexico City, Mexico, where his artist-friend Pancho has established an artists' colony in the form of a small Mexican pueblo to help nurture aspiring artists and writers. Here Neal finds...

Modern wireless communications hardware is underpinned by RF and microwave design techniques. This insightful book contains a wealth of circuit layouts, design tips, and practical measurement techniques for building and testing practical gigahertz systems. The book covers everything you need to know...

When the phantom patriots realized that their quiet revolution had fallen short of cleaning up the government, they agreed to launch another more aggressive campaign to do so. The challenge was daunting, however, because to succeed they would have to overcome two obstacles. The first was that rich...

This booklet has been compiled at the request oi several influential and representative Canadian Churchmen who wish to have in brief form a statement of the main teaching of the New Testament and Prayer Book on the Lord's Supper with special reference to certain present-day controversies. The booklet...

Intended as a textbook for courses in computational fluid dynamics at the senior undergraduate or graduate level, this book is a follow-up to the book Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics by the same authors, which was published in the series Scientific Computation in 2001. Whereas the earlier...

This monograph answers the question “What must an encircled unit be provided and do in order to successfully hold?” Following the end of the Cold War and the subsequent drawdown, the United States adopted a military strategy of force projection. Given this new strategy, any future adversary of...

Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...

College professor and fly-fishing enthusiast Dr. James Boyd Houston is accused of harassing an attractive coed who is enrolled in one of his classes. The dean honors his one-year terminal contract but refuses to approve his application for tenure. He will be out of a job when the contract expires....

Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these...

An eloquent essayist, here Huxley examines a number of subjects. The oldest essay in the collection, “On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences,” is about the differences between living and dead bodies; also included is a review of “The Origin of Species,” as well as his essays on Descartes, slavery, geology, education, and more.

This classic introduction to zoology isolates a single creature, the crayfish, in order to instruct the reader in the general principles of morphology, physiology, and the behavior of the animal. Huxley hoped that this monograph would show how his description of one animal could provide the “foundation for the whole of biological science.”

It is sometimes said that Christianity has suffered much from not accepting the modern scientific doctrine of Evolution. Do those who speak in this way really know what Evolution means? Could they define it? Could they tell in what way it has been modified since the time of Darwin? There is no little...