Thomas A : 872 books
by Thomas A. Reppetto
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city. Battleground New York City examines the history of domestic security operations and the people and agencies involved in safeguarding ôthe city that never sleeps.öStarting...
With the World at Heart
Studies in the Secular Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy,...
America's Church
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is...
by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.
Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary...
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience...
by Thomas A. Szlezák
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy.
Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot...
Conquistadores de la Calle
Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are...
by Thomas A. Stetz, Robert L. Lovler, Leslie A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Student Study Guide for Foundations of Psychological Testing has 15 chapters corresponding to those in the main textbook and follows a consistent structure for quick and easy access to key information. To help students understand and apply material related to psychological testing, authors Thomas...
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons...
Sacred to the Touch
Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the Touch examines the spiritual and intellectual projects of six twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists...
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
A Surgeon-Scientist Examines the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
How can a respected scientist believe in the resurrection? Can I trust the Bible’s account that Jesus actually rose from the dead? If the resurrection really occurred, of what importance is it to you and me?
Our ready embrace of the authority of science has left many doubting that Jesus’s...
by Thomas A. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The poems in this latest collection from Scottish poet Thomas Clarke form part of an ongoing project of reparation: a series of small acts of attention, repeated attempts to step outside the circle of human concern and into a wider responsibility to the natural world. The spaces between poems evoke...
New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny
The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
If I could be the servant posted just inside the entrance to the Kingdom of God, The New Believer's Crash Course is the manual I would hand to you as you stepped in. One of the most wondrous things that God has done is to store life in seeds. Seeds are relatively small and plain. But, in the...
How to Regulate
A Guide for Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Markets sometimes fail. But so do regulatory efforts to correct market failures. Sometimes regulations reach too far, condemning good activities as well as bad, and sometimes they don't reach far enough, allowing bad behavior to persist. In this highly instructive book, Thomas A. Lambert explains...