J Clark: 151 books
by Clark Murdock, Samuel J. Brannen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
CSIS undertook a study in support of Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Strategy and the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to explore using U.S. military power in new ways to achieve high-priority strategic ends (derived from the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance). The project was informed...
by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Charles S. Bullock III
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...
by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Shirley Wilson Logan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.
From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic...
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
The Play of Poiesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.
Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
by J. Willis Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
I ave frequently been asked to write my Memoirs, or I should rather say, my Recollections. I have serious doubts as to whether I recollect anything of value; and, even if I do, I have no time at present to commit it to paper. But, as the University, when I first knew it, was a very different place...
Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025–2050
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Project Atom is a forward-looking, “blue-sky” review of U.S. nuclear strategy and posture in a 2025-2050 world in which nuclear weapons are still necessary. The report highlights and addresses the current deficit in national security attention paid to the continued relevance and importance of...
Private Anti-Piracy Navies
How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in privatization of the military, especially of logistics and security functions during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outbreak of Somali piracy that started in 2008 has prompted a similar revolution in maritime security. Private security...
by David P. Clark, Nanette J. Pazdernik
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The second edition of Molecular Biology effectively introduces major concepts of cell structure and genetics, followed by a survey of DNA, RNA, and proteins, and how they interact to provide the cell with genetic information. This thorough update also reflects the recent, massive surge in our understanding...
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...
by Joseph J. Kerski, Jill Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data gives users of geographic information systems (GIS) relevant information about the sources and quality of available public domain spatial data. Readers will understand how to find, evaluate, and analyze data to solve location-based problems. This guide covers practical...
Case Studies in Food Engineering
Learning from Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
This volume presents case studies in food engineering. It is organized in three broad sections. The first concerns processes that are primarily physical, such as mixing, and the second processes that also involve biochemical changes, such as thermal sterilization. While the third section addresses...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
by Erin K. Anderson, Catherine White Berheide, Debra L. Berke
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.
In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs...