J Carlson: 32 books
by M.J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
It's 2047, and the more things change, the more politics stays the same.
Zachary Marshall is a brilliant, young, dedicated scientist with a secret in his past, who runs a small genetic testing laborstory with his best friend from college.
When an anonymous sample brought to his lab...
by Karl T. Sr. Benedict, John D. Blum, Rick J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Excerpt from Conference Address One of the most complex and significant social issues facing our nation is reform of our national health system. I am personally committed, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber is committed, to doing everything we can to help improve that system while simultaneously gaining...
by M.J. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Over the next three days, Kelvin Wilson will be hit by a car, shot, blow up a mulit-million-dollar building, and everyone he trusts will either die or betray him.
The year is 2132. Global warming has sent most of humanity's bet and brightest to giant orbiting space stations. One of those left...
by Robert Jeschonek, David Estes, Jonathan Moeller
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Fantasy Bridge is thrilled to present its first collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories transport you to new and wondrous worlds. Places where dragons roam free and where magic is as natural as blood. From epic battles to the temptations of demons, the exciting...
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital
How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class...
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War
Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
One of just a handful of women reporting on the Vietnam War, Kate Webb was captured by North Vietnamese troops and presumed dead—until she emerged from the jungle waving a piece of white parachute material after 23 days in captivity. Le Ly Hayslip enjoyed a peaceful early childhood in a Vietnamese...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
Clovis Lithic Technology
Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness....
The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
18 Wheels of Science Fiction
A Long Haul into the Fantastic
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit "18 wheels of Horror - a Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors."
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by R.L. Carlson, G.A. Kardomateas, J.I. Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This book focuses on the mechanisms and underlying mechanics of failure in various classes of materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite and bio-material. Topics include tensile and compressive fracture, crack initiation and growth, fatigue and creep rupture in metallic materials,...
Advertising and Violence
Concepts and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
*Advertising and Violence identifies and analyzes the important issues related to violence in advertising and its overall effects on society. The book is based on a widely cited special issue of the Journal of Advertising and includes eight new chapters that expand the book's coverage.
The...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...