J Walter: 249 books
Schrödinger
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 1992
Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Schrödinger, Walter Moore draws upon recollections of Schrödinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary...
Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice
Concise Professional Advice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.
Based on information gleaned from...
by Walter J. Whittemore Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Throughout time, assassination has been a tool of choice to topple governments, skew political contests, and alter battle outcomes. In many cases, assassination has changed the course of history.
In Untimely Deaths by Assassination, author Walter J. Whittemore Jr. delves into both the high-profile...
by Joshua Palmatier, Gini Koch, Seanan McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...
Interfaces of the Word
Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces...
With God in Russia
The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag during the height of the Cold War—a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary faith and fortitude...
May God Remember
Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
An engaging and sobering look at memorializing in Judaism and why memory—ours and God's—is so central to people.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine...
by Walter J. Krueckl
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book can be seen as an educational aide, in order to study the phenomenon of fascism. It includes an analysis of what social and psychological factors form the traits of an authoritarian individual. People raised in the patriarchal system, so typical of modern society, develop authoritarian personalities...
Savannah in the New South
From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city’s evolution from the pivotal period immediately after the Civil War to the present. When the war ended, Savannah was nearly bankrupt; today it is a thriving port city and tourist...
Orality and Literacy
30th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.
This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary...
Language as Hermeneutic
A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language in all its modes—oral, written, print, electronic—claims the central role in Walter J. Ong’s acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s...
by Walter J. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Unexplored Spain. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Walter J. Buck,...
Complexity, Learning and Organizations
A Quantum Interpretation of Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This fascinating book argues for a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, companies or (Western) society as a whole. Walter R.J. Baets argues that we should let go of our drive to control, manage and organize, in order to be able to create an ideal environment for continuous learning,...