Stephen J : 747 books
The Northeast
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the Northeast has led national developments in fire. Its intellectuals argued for model preserves in the Adirondacks and at Yellowstone, oversaw the first mapping of the American fire scene for the 1880 census, staffed the 1896 National Academy of Sciences forest commission...
Ethics and the Media
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book is a comprehensive introduction to media ethics and an exploration of how it must change to adapt to today's media revolution. Using an ethical framework for the new 'mixed media' ethics – taking in the global, interactive media produced by both citizens and professionals – Stephen J....
by Stephen J. Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Is evil done in the name of good any worse than good done in the name of evil?From the beginning, Stephen J. Schrader's AntiChristo Trilogy has turned everything known or thought about God, religion, or the universe itself on its ear.The Final Revelation delivers that "final" with...
Tears of the Cheetah
The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals could talk, we would ask them to recall their own ancestries, in particular the secrets as to how they avoided almost inevitable annihilation...
by Stephen J. Rosow, Jim George
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Combining theory with compelling case studies, this book examines the globalizing world of democracy. Noted critical scholars Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George argue that democracy must be understood not as a unified concept but as a diversity of political responses to specific conditions and political...
by Stephen J Dubner
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed—he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers "Franco Dubner." Though they never met, it was Franco Harris...
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2005
Gladstone and Disraeli surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analyzing many different aspects of their careers.
Using...
Class Strategies and the Education Market
The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.
Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction...
Picturing America
The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Instructive, amusing, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued...
A Letter from Frank
The Second World War Through the Eyes of a Canadian Soldier and a German Paratrooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten letter. It was written from Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War to a Canadian in a peaceful Southern Ontario town. Both had been soldiers and had met on a German battlefield. The letter lay unseen for years and was found by the Canadian’s...
by Stephen J. Pullum
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Faith healing has been a popular religious phenomenon in this country for well over a hundred years, gaining thousands of followers and raking in millions of dollars annually. What faith healers teach, however, often goes unchallenged. Faith Healers and the Bible: What Scripture Really Says offers...
A Time for Confidence
Trusting God in a Post-Christian Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
As members of a society that is quickly abandoning its Christian past, followers of Christ often feel disoriented or even frightened. When human leaders and political advocates fail us, when immorality is celebrated and legislated as cultural renaissance, doubts arise and the road to compromise beckons....
by Stephen J. Cimbala; Peter Jacob Rainow
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Russia is a post-communist country struggling to adapt to the modern world economically and politically. In the twenty-first century, Russia faces postmodern social, cultural, and political problems with its old policy of deterrence. For RussiaÆs political leaders and military planners, three scenarios...
Nurturing Resilience
Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A practical, integrated approach for therapists working with people (both adults and children) who have been impacted by developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell draw on fifty years of their combined clinical and teaching experience to provide this...