M Adams: 124 books
Paths of Fire
An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding...
NANCE: Trials of the First Slave Freed by Abraham Lincoln
A True Story of Mrs. Nance Legins-Costley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
The "Trials of Nance" is the true story of the three Supreme Court Trials of Mrs. Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1873) in Illinois. The dramatic non-fiction narrative is based on the original sworn and witnessed court records written with quill and buried deep in the Archives of the Illinois...
When He's Married to Mom
How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
A practical, compassionate relationship guide for women who are involved with mother-enmeshed men, mothers who wish to set their sons free, and men dealing with issues of commitment, sex addiction, and unhealthy attachments.
Why can't he commit? Many women find themselves asking this question...
Who Belongs?
Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the South. Indians who remained in the South...
by Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D., Patrick J. Carnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In this revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking book, Dr. Kenneth Adams, a leading expert on covert incest, sex addiction, and childhood trauma, offers tools for identifying and healing from covert incestuous relationships that affect adult relationships and lives. He explains...
Wasting the Rain (Routledge Revivals)
Rivers, People and Planning in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa. Adams argues that the best hope of productive development lies in working and engaging with local people and using local knowledge of the environment...
Future Nature
A Vision for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by a new complexion of economic forces that are driving change in the countryside. At the same time new ideas in conservation are altering the role that conservation is being asked...
Quantitative Research in Education
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Quantitative Research in Education: A Primer, Second Edition is a brief and practical text designed to allay anxiety about quantitative research. Award-winning authors Wayne K. Hoy and Curt M. Adams first introduce readers to the nature of research and science, and then present the meaning of concepts...
The Millionaire and the Mummies
Theodore Davis’s Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt.
At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world; his...
by W.M. Adams, M.J. Mortimore
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades. Reporting on studies of four village communities, it...
With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts...
by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for...
by Marilyn M. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
What Hath Eve Wrought? or W.H.E.W! is an historical view of how the Creation story of Eve as the "sinner" in the Garden became an all important element in the nineteenth century to suppress the idea of the equality of womankind. Many women began to realize their sub-citizen status had been...
by Dorissa M. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
In Deep Thought is a compilation of poems that were musically inspired.. It includes topics about self esteem, love, romance, life, music and domestic violence...just to name a few. Sit back and let these poems speak to you and leave you In Deep Thought.