John A : 1444 books
by Claudio Ronco, MD, Rinaldo Bellomo
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Comprehensive and clinically relevant, the 3rd Edition of Critical Care Nephrology provides authoritative coverage of the latest advances in critical care procedures for patients with renal diseases or disorders. Using common guidelines and standardized approaches to critically ill patients, this...
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
The Mothman Prophecies
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a strategy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary...
Woe! Woe! Woe! and Then Armageddon
A Prophecy of the End Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
One-third of the Bible concerns prophecy, and yet our religious leaders often do not understand these prophecies and do not teach them. Most scriptural prophecies reside in the Old Testament and in Revelation in the New Testament, and most direct our attention to the final years of human government...
A Visual Guide to Bible Events
Fascinating Insights into Where They Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Why did Jesus pick Samaria as the place to announce his messianic identity? Why did God lead Moses and the Israelites to Mount Horeb after they fled from Egypt? Why did the apostle John receive God's revelation on the island of Patmos?
A Visual Guide to Bible Events illuminates the fascinating...
A Visual Guide to Gospel Events
Fascinating Insights into Where They Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As the inspired authors of the Bible relayed the story of salvation, they frequently mentioned place names that contributed to the story. Yet readers who are separated from the texts by thousands of years and thousands of miles are often unable to fully understand or appreciate those references. In...
Universal Principles of Art
100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
A follow-up to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design, a new volume will present one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art, that will guide, challenge and inspire any artist to make better, more focused art.Universal Principles of Art serves as...
by John A. Lent, Xu Ying
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize – Best Art Publication
In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as...
The Ghosts of Thua Thien
An American Soldier's Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. Like many in his generation, he was deeply at odds with himself over the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, instilled with a strong sense of duty to his country but uncertain about its mission...
Battle
A History Of Combat And Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence...
by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Charles S. Bullock III
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...
The Class of '74
Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American politics. Instead of producing the Republican majority foreshadowed by Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide, dozens of GOP legislators were swept out of the House, replaced by 76 reforming...
by John A. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined...
by John A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The story of Egypt is the story of history itself—the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met the challenge of the mystery in a glorious evolution...