Richard William: 203 books
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
by Ahmed Khalifa, Michael DiBaggio, Jack McDonald Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution.
Imagine...a world where independent...
by Richard Abshire, William Clair
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Sgt. Bill Clark of the Dallas Auto Pound discovers a woman's body stuffed into the trunk of an impounded car. Vice cop Randi Stoner is undercover at a strip joint, investigating a nude dancer's brutal murder. After a chance meeting, the two cops figure out they're trailing the same killer, and their...
Philosophical Dialogues
Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly...
by Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, Steve Tipton
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.
Alabama and the Borderlands
From Prehistory To Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...
by Richard A. Santillán, Joseph Thompson, Mikaela Selley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas pays tribute to the baseball and softball players and teams from Houston, Sugar Land, Texas City, Richmond, and other surrounding communities in the region. Since the early 1900s, this game has had an important role in the lives of area Mexican...
Leadership for Rural Schools
Lessons for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
by Richard Holmes, William Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
In 1719, sixteen families left Ireland for America and founded a community called Nutfield, which evolved into modern Derry. For centuries, Derry retained its small-town character, but the 1963 opening of Interstate 93 changed the town forever. Within a decade, its population doubled. Derry is now the...
Japanese Hiragana and Katakana Practice Pad
Learn the Two Japanese Alphabets Quickly & Easily with this Japanese Language Learning Tool
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Japanese Hiragana & Katakana Practice Pad provides an enjoyable and motivating way for the learner to have practice in writing the syllables of the Japanese hiragana and katakana writing systems. There are a total of 365 practice sheets-one per day for a year of learning, or more than one per...
by Richard Day, William Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
As Indiana�s oldest town, Vincennes has a richly textured and multifaceted history. Established in 1732 as a military and fur-trading post, it grew to become the cultural, political, and educational center of the Indiana Territory in the early 1800s. Illustrated with over two hundred picture postcards...