John D: 1272 books
The Education-Drug Use Connection
How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...
by Gilbert E. “Bud” Schill, Jr., John W. “Mac” MacIlroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From ROCKET SCIENTISTS WE WERE NOT… and Other Stories:
“We were goofballs, and magnets for mischief. Pinheads, really. Boys who managed to screw up just about everything, everywhere: scouts, camp, school, dancing lessons, church, vacations, team sports, bowling, first dates, and summer...
by Paula Allman, Estanislao Antelo, Ursula Apitzsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the major social and political theorists of the 20th century whose work has had an enormous influence on several fields, including educational theory and practice. Gramsci and Education demonstrates the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's thought for contemporary educational...
by D. E. van Velden, John Daniel Kestell
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The want has been repeatedly expressed of an official publication of the Minutes of the Negotiations which led to the Peace concluded at Vereeniging on May 31, 1902, events which have hitherto been a closed page...
Advances in Bioenergy
The Sustainability Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The increasing deployment of bioenergy frequently raises issues regarding the use of land and raw materials, infrastructure and logistics. In light of these sometimes conflicting interests Advances in Bioenergy provides an objective and wide-ranging overview of the technology, economics and policy...
by Gary D. Joiner, John Andrew Prime
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Legendary Locals of Shreveport chronicles fascinating people who have made a difference in the Shreveport-Bossier City area. Some are good, some are bad, and more than a few are wicked. There are movie starlets, entertainers, decorated war veterans, gangsters, preachers, madams, politicians, giants...
by Bruce M. Bagley, Marten Brienen, Alejandro Chanona
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies....
War along the Border
The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
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...
Locating, Classifying and Countering Agile Land Vehicles
With Applications to Command Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This book examines real-time target tracking and identification algorithms with a focus on tracking an agile target. The authors look at several problems in which the tradeoff of accuracy and confidence must be made. These issues are explored within the context of specific tracking scenarios chosen...
All I Ever Wanted to Know about Donald Trump I Learned From His Tweets
A Psychological Exploration of the President via Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
We had to figure that by electing a decidedly non-career-politician, that things would be… different. But is this any way to run a country? Many opinions have been shared about Donald Trump, but we can learn so much more about the man via what he himself says – in 140 characters or less. Trump...