Michael William: 249 books
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militaries—a strategy clearly...
Beyond the Bounds
Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
"Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
–C. S. Lewis
This understanding of God's foreknowledge has united the church for twenty centuries. But advocates of "open theism" are presenting a different vision of God and a different...
by Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but...
Distorting the Law
Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.
Scholars have argued...
by Michael O'Malley, William H. Baker Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Make Every Business Day Your Masterpiece
Every Leader Is an Artist makes the compelling case that many of the attributes that make a person a great leader are actually those that make someone a superior artist: intention, focus, authenticity, skill, and imagination.
Providing the tools...
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able...
by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Shirley Wilson Logan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.
From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic...
Are We Hardwired?
The Role of Genes in Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior. But are we entirely at the mercy of our chromosomes? In Are We Hardwired?, scientists William R. Clark and Michael Grunstein say the answer is both yes--and...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
by William Pietz, Michael Dutton, Douglas R. Howland
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars—historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists—who offer a range of studies...
by Michael Frary, William A. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Before the establishment of the Big Thicket Nature Preserve, the Big Thicket of Texas became a symbol of nature's last stand against encroaching civilization. Here, in a mingling of ecological zones, come together plants, animals, and birds—many of them rare—the flora and fauna of north and south,...
Wildlife-Habitat Relationships
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Wildlife-Habitat Relationships goes beyond introductory wildlife biology texts to provide wildlife professionals and students with an understanding of the importance of habitat relationships in studying and managing wildlife. The book offers a unique synthesis and critical evaluation of data, methods,...
by William Shick, Erik Scott de Bie, Michael G. Ryan
Language: German
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Die "Geschichten aus den Eisernen Königreichen" laden dich zu einer abwechslungsreichen, abenteuerlichen Reise ein. In jeder Episode präsentieren wir drei Kurzgeschichten über die Menschen, Kreaturen und Maschinen von Immoren. Nutze diese einmalige Gelegenheit, für kleines Geld die Eisernen Königreiche...