S Wilson: 126 books
Politics of Identity in Small Plural Societies
Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies - or even at all - hangs in the balance.
Compendium of In Vivo Monitoring in Real-Time Molecular Neuroscience
Volume 2: Microdialysis and Sensing of Neural Tissues
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Volume 1 of this series focused mainly on small molecules which are intrinsically electroactive. Volume 2 continues to provide current approaches to real time measurements of essential species in the central nervous system. It describes microdialysis, a sampling technique, which facilitates the removal...
by Major David S. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis examines the evolution of artillery tactics in World War II using General J. Lawton Collins’ U.S. VII Corps as a case study. This study first reviews artillery doctrine and tactics during World War I and during the 1920s and 1930s, in which time future leaders like General Collins were...
by Jon S. Wilson, John Rittinghouse, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!
Communications engineers need...
by Meena S. Wilson, Michael H. Hoppe, Sayles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Managing in a multicultural setting can be very challenging. Culture strongly influences how people behave and how they understand the behavior of others, and cultures vary in the behaviors they find proper and acceptable. This report--which integrates work done by experts in the fields of anthropology,...
by Bernard S Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A young English girl, exploring her family history as part of a homework assignment, stumbles across an episode in the life of her family which takes her to the remains of internment camps in the south of France. She learns about the evil and suffering, but also about the courage and heroism which saved...
Ohio
A History of the Buckeye State
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State explores the breadth of Ohio’s past, tracing the course of history from its earliest geological periods to the present day in an accessible, single-volume format.
Features the most up-to-date research on Ohio, drawing on material in the disciplines of history,...
Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk
The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions -...
by Matthew S Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
David Shepherd awakes in a cell. The middle-aged London cab driver has vague recollections of attempting to protect his female passenger from a gang of drunken youths. Patchy flash-backs of blood and screams leave him with the ominous feeling that he may have done something rather quite rash. Did...
Blood Is Not Enough
Stories of Vampirism
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
“An excellent collection” of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly).**
Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire,...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #1
A Selection of Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #1 is a curated selection of novellas by editor Carl Engle-Laird
This collection includes:
The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
Runtime by S.B. Divya
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Killing Gravity by Corey J. White
The Murders of Molly...
by Getrude Reed, S. B. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Feeling the need for a suggestive guide that will assist ushers and auxiliaries of similar nature in the pro- viding of comfort, convenience, and the relieving of embarrassments upon members as well as strangers, vis- iting churches and religious organizations, I am impelled to impose my limited views...
American Priest
The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A provocative new biography probes deeply into the storied life of Father Ted Hesburgh, the well-loved but often controversial president of Notre Dame University.
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Considered for many decades to be the most influential priest in America, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, played what many consider pivotal...