Ronald A : 170 books
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
Science and Art
The Painted Surface
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future. For...
by Sandra A. Jacobson, Ronald W. Pies, Ira R. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
What do clinicians need to know to safely and effectively prescribe psychotropic medications to elderly patients?
Understanding the complex pharmacological changes that occur with aging is critical to informed prescribing -- yet much of today's practice in geriatric prescribing continues to...
The Life of John André
The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer—General Benedict Arnold. Arnold—his name for ever synonymous...
Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai'i
The Silencing of Native Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This comprehensive educational history of public schools in Hawai'i shows and analyzes how dominant cultural and educational policy have affected the education experiences of Native Hawaiians. Drawing on institutional theory as a scholarly lens, the authors focus on four historical cases representing...
by Day Al-Mohamed, S.A. Cosby, Ronald T. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Take an amazing ride with eight authors as they add a funky twist to the Dieselpunk genre. The Dieselfunk! anthology fills a void common in most speculative fiction genres, providing a much needed voice from an African/African Diaspora perspective. Dieselpunk just got funky!
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People
How to Beat Them Without Joining Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
The impossible people who make life’s journey so difficult are everywhere—at the office, in restaurants, on airplanes, living next door, members of your own family. They’re . . .
• your “nothing is ever good enough” boss
• the “no price is ever low enough” client
•...
Management Innovators
The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
Here is a who's who of business, thirty-one profiles of inventors, financiers, organizers, motivators, and gurus--a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures. We meet Eli Whitney, creator of the cotton gin and father of the machine...
Moldova
Arena of International Influences
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Moldova: Arena of International Influences brings international perspective to Moldova’s foreign relations since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Eighteen chapters analyze the policy toward Moldova of selected international actors: Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic and...
by Erik Dahlman, Claude Oestges, Alan C. Bovik
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
A one-stop Desk Reference, for R&D engineers involved in communications engineering; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a wide scope of topics...
Why, O God? (Foreword by Randy Alcorn)
Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
With two in seven American families affected by disability, the body of Christ has a great opportunity for ministry. This new anthology uniquely points the way, training churches, caregivers, pastors, and counselors to compassionately respond.
The book’s contributors—ranging from Joni Eareckson...
Another's Country
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...
by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ed Andrew, Ronald Beiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship....