J J Thomas: 1181 books
Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Rights, Liberties, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Capturing the authors’ excitement for constitutional law, this updated Tenth Edition of Constitutional Law for a Changing America shows you how judicial decisions are influenced by political factors—from lawyers and interest groups, to the shifting sentiments of public opinion, to the ideological...
Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Institutional Powers and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
A host of political factors—both internal and external—influence the Court’s decisions and shape the development of constitutional law. Among the more significant forces at work are the ways lawyers and interest groups frame legal disputes, the ideological and behavioral propensities of the...
by Gloria J. Miller, Thomas D. Queisser, Thomas Goettsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
“Mobilizing technology and teams for better decision-making” is the results from a global internet survey on how organizations use business intelligence software in decision-making. Businesses around the world were asked to benchmark how technology is being used to help make better decisions....
Beyond Slavery
Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions...
Baptist Foundations
Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...
by Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Over 50% of known flaviviruses have been associated with human disease. The Flavivirus genus constitutes some of the most serious human pathogens including Japanese encephalitis, dengue and yellow fever. Flaviviruses are known for their complex life cycles and epidemic spread, and are considered a...
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
A Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society. Authors James Walter and Thomas Shannon offer a fresh analysis from...
by Michael R. Foley, Thomas J. Garite, Thomas H. Strong Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A unique how-to manual focusing on the clinical management of the critically ill pregnant patient
Since the release of the first edition more than a decade ago, Obstetric Intensive Care Manual has become the go-to guide for obstetricians, intensivists, residents, and nurses seeking immediate, practical...
by Sonali J Bracken, Thomas A. Brown, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
Concise and easy-to-use, USMLE Step 1 Secrets provides the most effective, high-yield review you need for achieving success on this high-stakes exam. Presented in the popular Secrets Q&A format**,** this bestselling USMLE review book features questions and short answers along with case scenarios to...
One Nation After Trump
A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
American democracy was never...
by Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A Short History of Denver covers more than 150 years of Denver’s rich history. The book recounts the takeover of Native American lands, the founding of small towns on the South Platte River at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and the creation of a city, which by 1890 was among the nation’s major...
The Supreme Court Compendium
Data, Decisions, and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices; its relationship with public, governmental, and other judicial bodies; and...
by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...
Well... It's Your Cow
An Anecdotal Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.
That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the...