John A : 1444 books
Why Should I Believe the Bible?
An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Scripture's Trustworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Can you really trust the Bible? And if so, and you really understand it? The answer to both questions is yes—as this book makes plain. Here, under one cover, are two powerful titles that make God’s Word accessible to any reader: Answers to Your Bible Questions, providing clear, concise, encouraging...
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the 'legitimacy puzzle', which this book addresses by examining political...
Latinos in the New Millennium
An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed...
Engineering Rock Mechanics
Part 2: Illustrative Worked Examples
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2001
Engineering Rock Mechanics Part II: Illustrative Worked Examples can be used as an independent book or alternatively it complements an earlier publication called Engineering Rock Mechanics: An Introduction to the Principles by the same authors.
It contains illustrative worked examples of engineering...
by John A. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
This is a good summarization of the history of Francis Scott Key's poem.
Most Americans only know the first verse of our National Anthem, not the other three verses.
by John A. Little
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In this enjoyable and twisted Sherlockian short story, we find pregnant women being stripped of their babies in Kensington Gardners. On further investigation, Holmes and Jasper Lestrade uncover a plot which threatens the very throne of England - but can they act in time to save the Windsors? This intriguing...
by John A. Ormiston, Ron Waksman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Here is expert guidance on one of the most vexing clinical challenges faced by interventional cardiologists. Written by global thought leaders in the area and edited by two internationally-recognized pioneers in interventional cardiology, Bifurcation Stenting covers all techniques, imaging modalities,...
Choice Matters
How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages. So what happens now that the revolution has come for healthcare? While consumers have begun to insist on healthcare that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good...
The French Wars 1667–1714
The Sun King at war
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Campaigns fought by Louis XIV, the Sun King, shaped the borders of European states, the destinies of royal dynasties, and even the patterns of absolutist government. This book presents the most authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of these all-important struggles available today, covering...
by John A. Shoup III
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This book provides an avenue for students to explore the Nile—the world's longest river—and better understand its larger role in society in the past, present, and future.
• Presents primary documents that allow students to delve deeper into the past and more recent political history of...
by John A F Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid insight into Tudor life.
by John A. Bertolini
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the trajectory of Rattigan’s darkening...
Graphing Jane Austen
The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster.
Latin American Democracies
Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted...