Peter B : 271 books
The Union As It Is
Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.
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Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice
Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
American public life is gripped by a tumult that it has not experienced in at least half a century. Resentment, distrust, despair, fear, envy, and outrage are the passions of the day. Yet it was not long ago that political scientists and theologians could speak of a “Niebuhr renaissance” marked...
by Jennifer L. Borda, Christine Harold, Brian L. Ott
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore...
by Peter B. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjöld's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjöld first as a person and then as an international functionary. Also included are a bibliography, chronology, index, and an appendix of significant documents.
by Peter B. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A comprehensive survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior, Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us to imagine human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused.
Introduction to Nuclear Techniques in Agronomy and Plant Biology
Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Introduction to Nuclear Techniques in Agronomy and Plant Biology is a 15-chapter book that begins with an explanation of the nature of isotopes and radiation, nuclear reactions, and radioisotopes. Subsequent chapters describe the radioassay, use of stable isotopes as tracers, and activation analysis...
by Laszlo Tabar, Peter B. Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The names Tabr and Dean are associated with high-quality mammography worldwide. In this fourth edition of the bestselling Teaching Atlas of Mammography, readers are again invited to share in the authors experience of analyzing and evaluating mammograms. Their systematic approach not only instills...
The Speech Chain
The Physics And Biology Of Spoken Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Originally published in 1963, The Speech Chain has been regarded as the classic, easy-to-read introduction to the fundamentals and complexities of speech communication. It provides a foundation for understanding the essential aspects of linguistics, acoustics and anatomy, and explores research and...
Environmental Flow Assessment
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Provides critiques of current practices for environmental flow assessment and shows how they can be improved, using case studies.
In Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications, four leading experts critique methods used to manage flows in regulated streams and rivers to balance...
by Peter B. Bos
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This book describes why the politically democratic state is a mythical and illegitimate concept that does not and cannot work and why, without the corrective market feedback of profits and losses, this unstable, unmanageable, inefficient and authoritative social organization will cause its own demise....
by Peter B Meyer, Thomas S Lyons, Tara L Clapp
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development offers visions of the future, but implementation of new sustainable policies seems slow. This text presents a forecasting method directed to overcome some barriers to the implementation of more sustainable economic policy. Using a case...
The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File: Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records
Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
by Ara Kirakosyan, Peter B. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Plant biotechnology applies to three major areas of plants and their uses: (1) control of plant growth and development; (2) protection of plants against biotic and abiotic stresses; and (3) expansion of ways by which specialty foods, biochemicals, and pharmaceuticals are produced. The topic of recent...