J David: 1790 books
Good Judgment in Foreign Policy
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
At the heart of political leadership lies choice. And at the heart of choice lies judgment. A leader's psychology and experience intersect with political realities to produce consequences that can make or break a leader—or a country. Nowhere is judgment more important than in the making of foreign...
Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel
Early Views of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel: Early Views of Inheritance explores early theories about the mechanisms of inheritance. Beginning with Charles Darwin's now rejected Gemmule hypothesis, the book documents the reception of Gregor Mendel's work on peas and follows the work of early 20th...
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as
the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have
scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of
historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
China
A Geographical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
China has become a superpower, exerting significant influence globally. This accessible text integrates thematic and regional coverage to provide a panoramic view of China--its physical geography; population, including ethnic diversity; urban development; agriculture and land use; transportation networks;...
Seashells of New England
A Beachcomber's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Identify just about any seashell found on New England beaches, from southern Connecticut to northern Maine. Beautiful illustrations and straightforward descriptive text help readers identify 70 different seashells, and learn a little bit about them--most likely anything a reader wants to identify...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
The Discovery of the Asylum
Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular...
by David Moore, Geoffrey D. Robson, Anthony P. J. Trinci
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Fungi have their own unique cell biology and life cycle, but also play critical roles in wider biological systems. This textbook provides a comprehensive view of fungal biology, ranging in scope from the evolutionary origins of fungi and other eukaryotes more than a billion years ago, to the impact fungi...
Computers, Visualization, and History
How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines how digital environments and virtual reality have altered the ways historians think and communicate ideas and how the new language of visualization transforms our understanding of the past. Drawing on familiar graphic models--maps, flow charts,...
Men with a Mission
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In 1838, suffering from persecution, hardship, and uncertainty, members of the Quorum of the Twelve must have been astonished at the revelation that said: “And next spring, let them depart to go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel.” Their adventures in the British Isles...
by David J. Breeze
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This authoritative short volume introduces readers to the Roman army, its structure, tactics, duties and development. One of the most successful fighting forces that the world has seen, the Roman army was inherited by the emperor Augustus who re-organized it and established its legions in military...
by Menene Gras Balaguer, Menene Gras Balaguer, David Almazán Tomás
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2015
El jardín japonés como construcción cultural del paisaje natural no es un fenómeno aislado, pese a tratarse de un hecho de cultura que ha conservado su individualidad en el transcurso de los siglos desde su implantación en Japón procedente de China. Más bien al contrario, la necesidad de comprenderlo...
Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?
This book highlights some of the key...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...