J William: 1364 books
The Haunted House Diaries
The True Story of a Quiet Connecticut Town in the Center of a Paranormal Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nestled deep in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut, a 1790 farmhouse sits near the epicenter of a paranormal commotion. The family that resides there regularly encounters its own ancestors and strangers—human and non-human—who seemingly occupy the same physical space in our world while remaining in...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...
Erasing the Invisible Hand
Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed...
Psychological Injuries
Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological...
The Intellectual Crisis in English Catholicism
Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and the Vatican in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume, first published in 1982, examines the attempts of English liberal Catholics to reconcile their Church with secular culture and provides an account of the development of liberal Catholicism in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work was written not only...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...
by William J. LeVeque
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Basic treatment, incorporating language of abstract algebra and a history of the discipline. Topics include unique factorization and the GCD, quadratic residues, number-theoretic functions and the distribution of primes, sums of squares, quadratic equations and quadratic fields, diophantine approximation,...
by William J. LeVeque
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Superb introduction for readers with limited formal mathematical training. Topics include Euclidean algorithm and its consequences, congruences, powers of an integer modulo m, continued fractions, Gaussian integers, Diophantine equations, more. Carefully selected problems included throughout, with answers. Only high school math needed. Bibliography.
Solar System Astrophysics
Background Science and the Inner Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar System provides new insights into the burgeoning field of planetary astronomy. As in the first edition, this volume begins with a rigorous treatment of coordinate frames, basic positional astronomy, and the celestial...
by William J. Byron, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Growing Old Gratefully embraces the idea that old age is a gift for which we should be grateful.
Sawdust and Soul
A Conversation about Woodworking and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
An American ethicist and a South African theologian reflect on their work with wood and how it has helped them find creativity and meaning in experiences of both loss and transformation. Through their friendship, correspondence, and work together they have developed a rich narrative about the way...
by William J. Moylan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This book is about the Nostradamus king of terror prophecy. It is a book unlike any other written about his works. It sets out to prove this prophecy is still unfolding. The idea came from years the author spent surfing the worldwide web for some kind of truth out of all the words, pages upon pages...
by William J. FitzPatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life.
by 1Lt. William J. Simmons Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2001
This anthology contains twenty-one poems and illustrations that describes the feelings of the Poet before, during, and after the "Gulf War." The last poem in this book entitled, "Tis My Eyes To See," is ironically the first poem written. This poem addresses the mistreatment of...