L James: 962 books
Critical Materials
Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
A high percentage of many raw and semi-finished materials critical to U.S. manufacturing are imported. China is the controlling producer of 11 of these materials and has instituted export restrictions that have led to two-tier pricing, creating pressure to move manufacturing to China. This report suggests...
by James L. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
How is Christ the answer to a strained relationship with child, parent or sibling? What if I am being mistreated — what does the atonement say about that? How can I discover the desire to repent when I don't feel the need to repent? These are the challenging questions of daily life, the questions to...
by Rene S. Townsend, James R. Brown, Walter L. Buster
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Now superintendents can turn board meetings into productive, results-getting events that help them focus on teaching and learning to achieve district goals.
Transcendence and Film
Cinematic Encounters with the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner...
by James L. Harter Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
We all have gone on family automobile trips to some much anticipated destination. But it is the child who expresses the thrill of what is to come when he pleads incessantly and cries desperately, "Are we there yet!?" I feel like that enthusiastic child as I travel through my lifetime journey...
The Naturalness of Belief
New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Essays in Honor of Lois Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and...
America's Security Deficit
Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United States might adapt military instruments to meet these emerging challenges, assessing in broad terms the cost of defense investments commensurate with the interests at stake.
Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality
The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The civil rights movement of the 1960s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
by James L. Bryant Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Man has the ability to change if he allows the positive spirit to dwell within him; even an evil heart can be changed. It is the spirit of man that defines the heart, and the heart dictates our action.
These are lessons we must bear in mind as we learn more about the people who we elect for...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Day Trips® from Raleigh-Durham
Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Day Trips® from Raleigh-Durham is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover not far from Raleigh-Durham. The Triangle region's population totals over 1.7 million people, and this book invites them to:
* Do something prehistoric: Examine fossilized...
by James L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1973, this book explores the genre of melodrama. After discussing the defining characteristics of melodrama, the book examines the dramatic structures of the two major and contrasting emotions presented in melodrama: triumph and defeat. It concludes with a reflection on the ways in which elements of melodrama have appeared in protest theatre.