Thomas P Thomas: 439 books
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Reflections on Men and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted...
Rescuing Prometheus
Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The Economist
Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects...
I Believe in God
A Reflection on the Apostles' Creed
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In the spirit of nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill's admonition to fully, frequently, and fearlessly" discuss what we profess to be true in order that it remain a "living truth" rather than dead dogma, Thomas P. Rausch gives us I Believe in God: A Reflection on the Apostles'...
by Thomas P Hopp
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Camera! Action! —Trouble!
Kit Daniels and Chase Armstrong, the young heroes of the Dinosaur Wars series, have already saved the planet from a space invasion of laser-blasting dinosaurs. You would think they’d have no challenges left to face. But when a Hollywood director and his crew come...
by Thomas P Hopp
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A grave is discovered at a construction site in Neah Bay, Washington. Is it a Native American burial, as some Makah Tribe members claim— or are these the remains of a Spanish colonist of the 1700s, a man accused of romantic involvement with a young Makah woman? And how did the man die? Before these...
by Thomas P. Huber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person were to close their eyes, they could not tell if they were in Provence or the North...
Bare-Bones R
A Brief Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Bare-Bones R provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the elements of R and R Commander. Assuming no background in computer programming, author Thomas P. Hogan guides the novice in using these valuable tools for statistical analysis. The book walks the reader through steps for downloading and...
by Thomas P. Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A biography of the famous eighteenth-century Quaker whose abolitionist fervor and spiritual practice made him a model for generations of Americans
John Woolman (1720–72) was perhaps the most significant American of his age, though he was not a famous politician, general, or man of letters,...
Kontum
The Battle to Save South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its...
The Evolution of College English
Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller...
by Holly P. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Planning for your financial future can seem like a drab numbers game. How Does Your Money Flow? takes readers on a journey to discover how much is really enough. Rather than dictate a "Number" everyone needs to live on, you will define for yourself what your life's next chapter would look...
Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this innovative resource guide, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions relating in some way to the Philippines during the American colonial era in the country from 1898 to 1946. In preparing the guide, Walsh surveyed...
by Thomas Pölzler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology....
The Pentagon's New Map
War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what?
Thomas Barnett has the answers. A senior military...