J Edward: 443 books
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001
European Contexts, American Evolutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Ahearn's argument spans from the second...
Merchants of Menace - The Mafia
A Study of Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Originally published in 1962, The Merchants of Menace analyzes Mafia activity in the United States.
Described as an authoritative effort to explain organized crime, the book draws on author Edward J. Allen’s experiences during the late 1940s and early 1950s whilst serving as the Chief of...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book is about Planning, your ability to achieve the optimum balance of needs or demands with available resources by identifying objectives, formulating strategies to achieve them, arranges or creates the means required, and implements, directs, and monitors all steps in their proper sequence.
Becoming...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book is about Organizing, your ability to synchronize all the human, physical, and financial resources for which you are responsible.
Becoming a better organizer will make you more effective tomorrow than you are today, thus increasing your value added to any employer. If your goal is...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book is about Communicating, a continuous process intended to produce clearer focus, assist collaboration, build consensus, build trust, relieve stress, reduce rumors, reduce confusion, ensure shared understanding, reduce misunderstandings, and most of all - to get things done!
The Lost...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book is about Training, both your training and the training of those you lead.
Becoming a better trainer will make you more effective tomorrow than you are today, thus increasing your value added to any employer. If your goal is to increase your income and stand out above your peers, this...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book is about Leadership, your ability to become more effective tomorrow than you are today, thus increasing your value added to any employer. If your goal is to increase your income and stand out above your peers, this book is the best investment you'll ever make.
The Leader's Guide will...
From Second Bull Run to Gettysburg
The Civil War in the East, 1862-63
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Stackpole Books presents Gen. Edward J. Stackpole’s Civil War classics -- They Met at Gettysburg, Drama on the Rappahannock, Chancellorsville, and From Cedar Mountain to Antietam -- in a single abridged volume that covers the war’s pivotal and turbulent middle year in the Eastern Theater, from...
All for the King's Shilling
The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice....
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
The Victorian Palace of Science
Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction...
American Cultural Patterns
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
A fully revised edition of the seminal classic
This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns...
by Edward J. Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Phosphate Fibers is a singular detailed account of the discovery, chemistry, synthesis, properties, manufacture, toxicology, and uses of calcium and sodium calcium polyphosphate fibers. Author Edward J. Griffith-the inventor and developer of this safe, biodegradable material-takes a multidisciplinary...