J James: 962 books
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage:
A Global Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Whether the approximately 500 million Indigenous peoples of the world live in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, they have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. That fate has included assaults on their language and culture, commercialization of their art,...
Immigration the World Over
Statutes, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance. More younger workers are needed to support the social contract established with the baby boom generation, and immigration offers one practical solution. Many countries, however, have...
by James Otis, L. J. Bridgeman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
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by James J. Tritten
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The U.S. Navy was characterized by a recent RAND study as being “the supra-national institution that has inherited the British Navy’s throne to naval supremacy.” Given the legacy of the traditions that have passed from the Royal Navy to the U.S. Navy, one cannot consider naval doctrine in the...
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;...
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...
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...
Reflections on Sentiment
Essays in Honor of George Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism...
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...
by Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., James L. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WORLD WAR II: THE ARMY
WORLD WAR II: THE NAVY
WORLD WAR II: THE MARINE CORPS AND THE COAST GUARD
A POSTWAR SEARCH
NEW DIRECTIONS
A PROBLEM OF QUOTAS
SEGREGATION'S CONSEQUENCES
THE...
The Imaginary Sea Voyage
Sailing Away in Literature, Legend and Lore
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
For centuries, humankind has wondered what is "out there" and has embarked on countless voyages to find out. This book traces the history and literature of the imaginary voyage--stories of mariners journeying through uncharted waters to find strange and marvelous sights. Well-told tales of adventurous...
Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
by Jeremy G. Venditti, James L. Best, Michael Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures.
This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth’s surface, focusing in particular on the organized structures that...
by Ghulam Ali, Yu Bin, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's...