P Thomas: 439 books
Ministers and Mines
Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 1847–1858
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Religious conflict in Ireland has had a long history. Ministers and Mines: Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 18471858 is a case study of religious conflict in the copper-mining community of Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, Ireland, in the mid-nineteenth century. By the time an English evangelical...
Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America
How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America is the first in-depth examination of the impact of the new national health care law on American individuals, families, and businesses. Written by an esteemed quartet of experts and former health policy officials, Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America demystifies the...
by Dominick Domasky, Joey Faucette, Joe Walko
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
What makes a band of nine fathers want to write a book on fatherhood? They felt the need to share their struggles and successes. In a medley of stories, opinions and advice, the authors take you on a journey of men who don't hold back their enthusiasm of being proud fathers. You will find moments...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance
A General Scientific Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance...
America Is Self-Destructing
Wealth, Greed, and Ideology Trump Common Cause and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Countries that at different times in history were among the worlds greatest powers, such as Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Britain, and Germany, have gradually shifted their sights either in the wake of defeat or after protracted periods of grappling with decline, from winning the great power sweepstakes...
The The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
Parental Choice?
A Critical Reconsideration of Choice and the Debate about Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any nuanced consideration of...
Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about...
Balancing Renewable Electricity
Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
An important aim behind the restructuring of Germany’s and Europe’s electricity systems is to reduce the environmental burden, especially with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, of the current systems. Emissions must be brought down to a level that is sustainable in the long run and consistent...
World Religions
A Guide to the Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This masterful survey of world religions presents a clear and concise portrait of the history, beliefs, and practices of Eastern and Western religions. The new edition contains added material and has been revised throughout. The authors, both respected scholars of world religions, have over fifty...
by Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that...
by Ben Schirfin, Jeffrey P. Schaffer, Thomas Winnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
First published in 1973, The Pacific Crest Trail, Vol. 1, California quickly established itself as the "PCT Bible"-- the book trekkers could not do without. Now thoroughly updated and redesigned into two portable volumes, Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California starts at the Mexican border...