Michael J : 2158 books
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Libya's Moammar Qaddafi ran one of the most terrifying police states in the world before an armed rebel movement tore his repressive regime apart. In the Land of the Brother Leader is award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten's alterately humorous, creepy, and occasionally touching portrait of a brutalized nation just a few short years before the end of an era.
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard,...
正義：一場思辨之旅【桑德爾指定授權，10周年全新譯本，收錄台灣版獨家序言】
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 6, 2018
桑德爾：思考「正義」，才能促使我們思考最好的生活方式。
★全世界最有影響力的政治哲學家，引領當代思潮的重要指標
★引燃全球公共辯論火苗，跨世代熱烈品讀經典
★哈佛大學最受歡迎、最具影響力的一門課
★美國電視史上第一次向公眾播放的大學課程
博大精深、文筆流暢且深富人文關懷，這是能夠真正改變人的讀物。──《出版人週刊》
◎關注當代最容易被忽略的議題、最切身相關的困境
社會和政治讓人充滿挫折感，究竟出了什麼問題？有沒有第三種可能？如果我們希望過好自己的人生，扮演良好的公民角色，就無法迴避這些問題。本書作者桑德爾為哈佛大學政治哲學教授，被譽為當代最有影響力的思想家之一，其蘇格拉底式的對話互動式教學為人津津樂道，亦實踐了學術平民化
的精神。「正義」課程至今已累積超過一萬五千名修課人次，使得哈佛大學首次決定將一門課製作成電視節目在美國公共電視播出，成為美國電視史上第一次向公眾播放大學課程。這十二個小時的課程被瘋狂轉寄，日本NHK...
The Night Stalkers
Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes comes a thrilling account of military aviation for history buffs and “for those who love vivid tales of battlefield heroics” (Publishers Weekly).
In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously...
by Michael J. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
This book is written in a manner to teach basic skills in choosing, care for and using bodyguarding defensive weapons which includes personal firearms and protective vests. To those who are starting out in the profession, those who want to increase their knowledge and also gives an in-depth look as to what bodyguards are expected to do, and the equipment they need to do it.
by Michael J Stanuszek
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book is a compliation of 100 humorous observations from a middle-aged dad about life, marriage, and parenting in middle-America in the 21st century.
by Michael J. Klarman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed...
Wakefield Then & Now
Extraordinary Tales from the Merrie City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The escaping bear who’d had enough of being a Victorian showpiece; tragedy narrowly averted over the skies of Wakefield when an aeronaut lost control of his balloon in 1827; secret passages and hidden relics; and dark tales of determined apparitions and boggarts are among many enchanting stories...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This section of the comprehensive history deals with early settlements, Christianity, schools and horse racing
This Land Is Your Land
The Story of Field Biology in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments—an understanding gleaned only...
Your Heritage Will Still Remain
Racial Identity and Mississippi's Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians, black and white, constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending in the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Goleman focuses primarily on how Mississippians...
The Road to Fatima Gate
The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history’s violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten’s version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world’s most volatile region is one part war...
The Bookmaker
A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Marking the debut of a gifted new writer, The Bookmaker teems with humanity, empathy, humor, and insight.
At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful, layered memoir is his family's struggle for success in 1970s, '80s, and '90s New York City—and his father's gambling, which brought them...