John H: 963 books
by John H. McWhorter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,...
by John H. Martin, Phyllis G. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
This useful Tokyo travel guide presents fourteen original walking tours that unlock some of Tokyo’s secrets and mysteries.
Although Tokyo today is a sprawling urban patchwork of towns and wards, each of the city’s districts retains a unique charm and character.
Discover, in a series...
by Col. John H. Roush Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This volume presents a dramatic collection of significant combat experiences of 79 men in WWII, as told from one combat veteran to another. In the 86 chapters are stories involving all the various branches of combat service and all of the various theaters of war. Within reminiscences, veterans of...
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
The First Republican Army
The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
In stark contrast to Democratic general George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, the Army of Virginia, with its Republican officer corps, soldiers, and general, John Pope, spearheaded the radicalization of the Union war effort against rebel soldiers, civilians, and slavery.
by John H. Wulsin Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
John Wulsin approaches the English language not as a conventional linguist, but as a poet interested in the spirit and evolution of our language. To show how sound works in English and American poetry, the author traces the many changes, both subtle and radical, in how English has sounded over the past...
by John H. Goldthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations....
by John H. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This work serves as an introduction or initiation to the spiritual life so that the intellect may give its full assent to what it knows to be true. This book provides the first critical edition of John Henry Newman’s classic work, A Grammar of Assent. Newman explains how the human mind proceeds...
The Gestation of German Biology
Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural history that preceded it, marking the beginnings...
The Lost World of Adam and Eve
Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
2016 Christianity Today Biblical Studies Award of Merit For centuries the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous. And even for many thinking Christians today who want to take seriously...
Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs
Volume III: Wagram and Znaim
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
“A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon’s last great victory” (HistoryOfWar.org).
With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg...
Bullseye!
Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors' original -- and revealing -- research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45...
by John A. Mattie, John H. McCarthy, Nancy E. Shelmon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A completely revised and expanded edition of the nonprofit industry finance and accounting standard
Filled with authoritative advice on the financial reporting, accounting, and control situations unique to not-for-profit organizations, Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations,...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...