S R Jones: 38 books
by E.R. Johnson, Lloyd S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II—beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day—the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and...
The Arab Awakening
America and the Transformation of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might...
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Linda S. Bosniak, Joseph H. Carens
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...
American Military Training Aircraft
Fixed and Rotary-Wing Trainers Since 1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The U.S. did not become the world’s foremost military air power by accident. The learning curve—World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and more recently the war on terror—has been steep. While climbing this curve, the U.S. has not only produced superior military...
Ollam
Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature....
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...
Force of Gravity
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Paranoid yet judiciously reasonable, innocent yet calculating, strange yet strangely endearing, Emmet Barfield finds the world around him looming larger and larger the more he struggles to make his way within it. With Emmet as our guide, Force of Gravity transforms the world through a solitary consciousness...
Walking on Air
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
William Addams is dying. Controlling, mercurial, and estranged from his family, he is consumed by the fear that he'll be abandoned by Henry and Susan, his closest friends, the only people on whom he can rely.
What he wants is for their faithfulness to last until they take him home to his beloved...