J Smith: 831 books

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Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based...

Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...

Basic NEC with Broadcast Applications addresses computer modeling of MF directional broadcast antennas and illustrates the assets and liabilities of the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC). The book's "how to" approach reveals the fundamentals of NEC operation, teaches broadcast applications...

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher...

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...

Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...

The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership,...

Et si on vous offrait cinq minutes à partager avec votre amour mort… à condition d’accepter de combattre des forces infernales ? Straczynski nous dévoile un récit à la croisée du mythe d’Orphée et de L’Enfer de Dante. Ce qui débuta comme la quête d’un homme seul devient désormais...

Et si on vous offrait cinq minutes à partager avec votre amour mort… à condition d’accepter de combattre des forces infernales ? Straczynski nous dévoile un récit à la croisée du mythe d’Orphée et de L’Enfer de Dante. Suivez la descente aux enfers de Joe Fitzgerald, un ancien...

The tales featured in Strange New Worlds rocket readers across the length and breadth of Federation time and space, from Captain Jonathan Archer's first exploration of the galaxy on board the very first Starship Enterprise through to Captain Picard's tenure on the USS Enterprise 1701-D -- and beyond....

On an Island called Noitacav there were simple people called the Ylimaf. The Ylimaf live under a force field for protection from an evil sorcerer. Twin teenage boys, Relyt and Nivram and Princess Nnylyks learn of a possible infiltration of their protective force field and learn of a way outside of...

A whimsical collection of popular science fiction subjects done with a few new twists. In Bad Behavior a citizen of a very strict society gets three years at a prison colony for a bad haircut. In Outlaw in Time a fast gun from the future goes back in time to see how he measures up against the real...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of...