Michael Paul: 327 books

Book cover of Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest
by Michael P. McCauley, B. Lee Artz, DeeDee Halleck
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis...
Book cover of Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence
by Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018

That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable...
Book cover of Democracy Reconsidered
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
Book cover of The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29–May 18, 1863
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Book cover of Mathematics for Physics

Mathematics for Physics

A Guided Tour for Graduate Students

by Michael Stone, Paul Goldbart
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009

An engagingly-written account of mathematical tools and ideas, this book provides a graduate-level introduction to the mathematics used in research in physics. The first half of the book focuses on the traditional mathematical methods of physics – differential and integral equations, Fourier series...
Book cover of Transatlantic Scots
by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010

Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage. During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies.  Well over 300 Scottish Highland...
Book cover of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
by Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
Book cover of Matter and Form

Matter and Form

From Natural Science to Political Philosophy

by Douglas Al-Maini, Coleen Zoller, Mostafa Younesie
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Book cover of International Mediation
by Paul F. Diehl, J. Michael Greig
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

Conflicts in the international system, both among and within states, bring death, destruction, and human misery. Understanding how third parties use mediation to encourage settlements and establish a durable peace among belligerents is vital for managing these conflicts. Among many features, this...
Book cover of Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy

Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy

Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis

by Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager, Paul M. Sniderman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014

In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Eastern...
Book cover of Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis

Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis

The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser

by Michael P. Scharf, Paul R. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010

Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law...
Book cover of Infantile Autism

Infantile Autism

The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

by Robert K. Naviaux, Paul Millard Hardy, Lucy Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014

In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
Book cover of Showing and Doing

Showing and Doing

Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher

by Michael A. Peters, Nicholas C. Burbules, Paul Smeyers
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking...
Book cover of Augustine and World Religions
by Michael Barnes, Olivier Dufault, Paula Fredriksen
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008

Augustine and World Religions examines Augustine's thought for how it can inform modern inter-religious dialogue. Despite Augustine's reputation as the father of Christian intolerance, one finds in his thought the surprising claim that within non-Christian writings there are 'some truths in regard...
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