Michael S: 742 books
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
by Daniel Arthur Smith, Ernie Howard, Will Swardstrom
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!
This Second Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Nineteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Eleven of todays top speculative fiction writers.
Tales from...
by David S. Goyer, Michael Cassutt
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
**The science fiction epic of our time has arrived.
Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
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...
Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy
Thinking the Plural
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. Collecting essays written explicitly for the volume...
by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical...
Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The first "adolescent primer" on the marketDestructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self...
Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A Comprehensive Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For 25 years, Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has been the cornerstone of every child and adolescent psychiatrist’s library. Now, three colleagues of Dr. Lewis at the world-renowned Yale Child Study Center, have substantially updated and revised this foundational textbook for its long-awaited...
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
by Dana H. Allin, Timo Behr, David P. Calleo
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor, obviously, was everything beyond criticism...
Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
Thinking from the Underside of History
Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2000
Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the...