J William: 1364 books
by David M. Glover, William J. Jenkins, Scott C. Doney
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
This advanced textbook on modeling, data analysis and numerical techniques for marine science has been developed from a course taught by the authors for many years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The first part covers statistics: singular value decomposition, error propagation, least squares...
Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast
Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.
Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...
Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics
Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation. Key emphases of the book include aesthetics, the aims and motives of individual producers of...
Transatlantic Mysteries
Crime, Culture, and Capital in the 'Noir Novels' of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán —from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain— who both work in one specific genre—'noir' detective fiction. In this so called...
by William J. Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
It was 1942. The fight for the Philippines was over. Japan was the victor. American POW's sat beneath the burning April sun in the fields of Mariveles. Bub Merrill looked out to sea to see an outline of American held Corregidor, tantalizingly close, just three miles away across the bay, but orders...
by Nathaniel Cadle, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...
Deconstructing Dads
Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t...
by James Jeans, William Bragg, E.V. Appleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
First published in 1936, this volume contains six of the Halley Stewart Lectures – originally founded "For Research towards the Christian Ideal in All Social Life" – by some of the greatest of English scientists of the mid-20th century, each a leading authority in his respective field:...
by James L. Streeter, William J. Tischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Established in 1705, the town of Groton is geographically located between the Thames and Mystic Rivers in the southeastern corner of Connecticut. The town is comprised of eight separate subdivision communities that are referred to as fire districts. Groton is also the home to a large naval submarine...
by William J. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
What do you do when someone you love has taken their own life? You have entered a whole new world that you did not choose to enter and where you feel confused and alone. This book not only will help guide survivors of suicide through the very difficult time of grief, but offers hope at a time that...
The Democratic Soldier
The life of General Gustave P. Cluseret
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
By definition, a mercenary is a person who fights for personal gain or money instead of fighting for the ideological interests of a country. Since this individual also could serve in several foreign army’s, he could also be considered a professional soldier. Gustave Cluseret does not fit into this...
Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq
From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
What were they thinking? In an effort to put an end to Britain and France's policy of seizing American ships and sailors, Thomas Jefferson calls for an embargo. The Result: 30,000 sailors put out of work; mercantile families bankrupted overnight; a nationwide economic depression; and the New England...