John S Michael: 88 books

Book cover of Studies in Culture Contact

Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact:...
Book cover of Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003

This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
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On New Shores

Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America

by Carl F. Auerbach, James D. Bachmeier, John W. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Book cover of Textual Layering

Textual Layering

Contact, Historicity, Critique

by Apostolos Lampropoulos, Frances Restuccia, John Lechte
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of...
Book cover of Social Movements and American Political Institutions
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998

Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
Book cover of The Rabbit Hole

The Rabbit Hole

Weird Stories, #1

by Jon Michael Kelley, erik bergstrom, Anthony Engebretson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...
Book cover of Decision Making in Health and Medicine

Decision Making in Health and Medicine

Integrating Evidence and Values

by M. G. Myriam Hunink, Milton C. Weinstein, Eve Wittenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014

Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and...
Book cover of Modern Biocatalysis

Modern Biocatalysis

Advances Towards Synthetic Biological Systems

by Anne Zaparucha, Yasuhisa Asano, Jean-Pierre Mahy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

The synergy between synthetic biology and biocatalysis is emerging as an important trend for future sustainable processes. This book reviews all modern and novel techniques successfully implemented in biocatalysis, in an effort to provide better performing enzymatic systems and novel biosynthetic...
Book cover of The Veterinarians' Guide to Your Cat's Symptoms
by Michael S. Garvey, D.V.M., Anne E. Hohenhaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010

The experts reveal how to interpret and understand your cat's symptoms and what steps to take to ensure its health. This comprehensive and practical book is designed to assist cat owners in understanding their pets' bodies and health based on signs and symptoms of disease, and in determining...
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Called and Chosen

Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders

by Regina Bechtle, , S.C
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005

That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
Book cover of The Lovecraftian Poe

The Lovecraftian Poe

Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

by Alissa Burger, Michael Cisco, Dan Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
Book cover of Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman
by John Judis, Alan L. Berger, Bruce S. Warshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

When he assumed the presidency in April 1945, Harry S. Truman inherited various international sources of turmoil, including the ambiguity of American policy toward political Zionism. Three years later, President Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, just 11 minutes after the announcement...
Book cover of Dostoevsky's Political Thought
by Ethan Alexander-Davey, Steven D. Ealy, Khalil M. Habib
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all-time, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to inspire and instigate questions about religion, philosophy, and literature. However, there has been a neglect looking at his political thought: its philosophical and religious foundations, its role in nineteenth-century...
Book cover of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

by Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
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