J David: 1790 books
Universal Terrors, 1951-1955
Eight Classic Horror and Science Fiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters—Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1950s, more modern monsters were created for the Atomic Age, including one-eyed globs from outer space, mutants from the planet...
Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"
The Folk in the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture....
Civil War Battlefields
A Touring Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks. Civil War Battlefields presents a detailed, clear narrative describing exactly what visitors can see and do in twelve important battlefield areas covering 22 campaigns and approxiamately 40 separate battles.
by David R. Cartlidge, J. Keith Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the Church's traditional stories about its origins. Although not in the Bible, these popular stories have had a powerful influence on the Church's traditions and theology, and a particularly marked effect on visual representations...
Film Noir FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives and Danger
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Illustrations throughout
UFO FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Roswell, Aliens, Whirling Discs and Flying Saucers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Since the famed Kenneth Arnold “flying saucer” sighting of 1947, the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs, and everything from the extinction of dinosaurs to the origins of humankind have been attributed...
Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations
Early Docking Technologies from Concept to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit? As a means of transporting goods, the shuttle could help supply the parts to the station. But how would the two entitles be physically linked?
Docking technologies had to constantly...
EDUCAÇÃO
REFLEXÕES SOB A PERSPECTIVA DE FILÓSOFOS
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Esta obra foi publicada, originalmente, pela Revista Tempo Brasileiro, considerada uma das revistas acadêmicas mais importantes e tradicionais do Brasil. No entanto, em relação à impressa, foi revista e ampliada. Trata-se de reflexões a respeito de educação a partir do ponto de vista de filósofos como Deleuze, Paulo Freire, Peirce, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Ricoeur e outros.
The Performance of Small Firms
Profits, Jobs and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide jobs, whether they grow and why...
by Pooran Wynarczyk, Robert Watson, David J. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly, this book, originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms. The volume concentrates on the following...
by Michael Stumpf, David J. Balding, Mark Girolami
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Systems Biology is now entering a mature phase in which the key issues are characterising uncertainty and stochastic effects in mathematical models of biological systems. The area is moving towards a full statistical analysis and probabilistic reasoning over the inferences that can be made from mathematical...
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry
Media, Players, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage,...
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological...