P John: 800 books
by John P. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several...
Women and Thomas Harrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
**“Women and Thomas Harrow is Grade A Marquand, spellbindingly readable, smooth as cream in its polished technical craftsmanship, sardonically witty and filled with a special sort of wry and melancholy worldly wisdom.” —The New York Times
Playwright Thomas Harrow followed his first...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
by John Guckenheimer, Stephen P. Ellner
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly growing field. In Dynamic Models in Biology,...
Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades,...
by Edward P. Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Theology, the discipline that analyzes, examines, and seeks to explain religious ideas, is a vibrant area of inquiry. Scholars and philosophers have produced countless works of theology over the past several thousand years.
In the West, however, virtually all theology concerns monotheistic...
In a Rebellious Spirit
The Argument of Facts, the Liberty Riot, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been...
Dawn of the Code War
America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyber war against us-and how we've learned to fight back
With each passing year, the internet-linked attacks on America's interests have grown in both frequency and severity. Overmatched by our military, countries like North Korea, China,...
by John P. Haumersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Author John P. Haumersen has led a different and exciting life. In The Life Story of a Solider, he narrates his story with all of its interesting twists and turns during his eighty-plus years.
From his birth in Racine, Wisconsin, through his schooling at West Point, to his service in the military,...
by John P. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Philosophical Logic is a clear and concise critical survey of nonclassical logics of philosophical interest written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. After giving an overview of classical logic, John Burgess introduces five central branches of nonclassical logic (temporal,...
The Contemplative Practitioner
Meditation in Education and the Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Meditation is a simple and practical activity that can enrich our lives and work in innumerable ways. It allows us to connect more deeply to ourselves and others and to the environment. In this book, John P. Miller, an expert in the field of holistic education, looks at mediation and how it can be...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
by John P. Endres, Helen Endres
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
For more than forty years, J P Endres directed a camp in northern Minnesota. There, he taught generations of youngsters the value of nature, the importance of working together, and the joys that can come from a life lead with purpose and meaning. Here are reflections from his life as a camp director,...
by John P. Turner, Susan B. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
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