I James: 84 books
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
by James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Clarifies many aspects of the previously obscured or merely anecdotal relation between criticism and Jewishness in the twentieth century and beyond.
by D. W. Robertson, Edmund Reiss, David Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are...
Pearls of Wisdom
Stories Based on the Book of Proverbs from the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Pearls of Wisdom is a collection of short stories that illustrate key verses from the book of Proverbs, written by the wisest man that lived in the world, King Solomon. Each story enhances the meaning of the proverb. The interpretation of each proverb is the authors but tries to capture the essence of the proverb and the lesson that King Solomon is trying to convey.
The Civil War
1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The Civil War takes readers on a chronological journey of the most important events of the conflict with action-packed illustrations by Mort Künstler-the most collected Civil War artist in the world-and inquiry-based text by historian Alan Axelrod. With close readings of Künstler’s paintings,...
Healing Tasks
Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities...
by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal...
by William Meezan, James I. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Take an in-depth look at what works-and what doesn't-in research with GLBT populations!
This essential book examines the usefulness of current frameworks for research with GLBT populations and highlights the necessity for greater complexity in the conceptualization and design of research with...
Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
The Revolutionary War in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1976
While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778,...
Advances in Heat Transfer
Cumulative Subject and Author Indexes and Tables of Contents for Volumes 1-31
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.
by James I. Pryor II
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Everyone loves a good adventure story. The history of Akron aviation provides all the real-life pathos of any adventure novel. It all began in 1875, when a young farmer named Jack C. Johnston launched himself and his balloon on one of the wildest flights ever recorded. In 1906, John Gammeter, an Akron...
Crisis in a Divided Korea: A Chronology and Reference Guide
A Chronology and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the reasons for the existence...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...