Thomas F : 389 books
The Independent Republic of Arequipa
Making Regional Culture in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation's overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, "white") and sierra (traditional,...
In the Trough
Three Years on Ocean Station
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A few months out of college, followed by a sixteen-week course on how to be a naval officer, author Thomas F. Jaras found himself standing bridge watches on the USS Vance in the middle of nowhere, providing navigational aid for aircraft flying to the polar ice. Now, almost fifty years later, Jaras...
The Quality of Home Runs
The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality...
Engineering Victory
How Technology Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering—not superior military strategy or industrial advantage—as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome.
Army...
In Foreign Fields
The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
This book examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports industry who cross borders as part of their professional lives. *BR**BR*Despite a great deal of romance surrounding international celebrity athletes, the vast majority...
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of...
by Thomas F. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles,...
by Thomas F. Tartaron
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been...
by Very Revd Thomas F. Torrance
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Written by one of the twentieth-century's foremost modern Trinitarian theologians The Christian Doctrine of God remains a classic ground work for scholars and students alike.
In the book Thomas F. Torrance offers a detailed study of the most profound article of the Christian faith - the Holy Trinity....
The Russian Parliament
Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the first free elections in post-Soviet Russia in 1989 to the end of the Yeltsin period in 1999, Russia’s parliament was the site of great political upheavals. Conflicts between communists and reformers generated constant turmoil, and twice parliamentary institutions broke down in violence. This...
by Thomas F. Massiah
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
My story begins in Montreal on August 6, 1931, the day before my father died. I was not quite five years old, and I was the fourth of six siblings that my mother was left to raiseat the height of the so-called Great Depression. I trace and comment on my life struggles through public school, high school,...
by David H. Peterson, DC, Thomas F. Bergmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
No other book offers a complete guide to chiropractic adjustive techniques! Chiropractic Technique, 3rd Edition makes it easy to understand essential procedures and provides a rationale for their use. Written by Thomas F. Bergmann, DC, FICC, and David H. Peterson, DC, and backed by the latest research...
by Thomas F. King
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F. King shares his expertise in dealing with laws regulating the use of cultural resources. With wry insight, he explains the various federal, state, and local laws governing the protection of resources, how they have been interpreted, how they operate...
by Thomas F. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Spanning nearly half a century, Illyria is the story of three friends from northern Ohio. Told from Joe's perspective as a 45 year old in Manhattan, Illyria brings together the accidents and incidents of the boys' lives, reconstructing the events that led to a tragic end for one of his oldest friends.