William H : 870 books
by William H. Bergmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers, as well as bureaucratic authority, to enhance land acquisitions, promote infrastructure...
Weather in the Courtroom
Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early ’70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cases. But while the Center offered data certified...
The Niagara Escarpment
From Tobermory to Niagara Falls
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the...
by William H. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
These 53 magnificent drawings by a distinguished architect recapture landmarks of colonial America. Originally published in 1922, Otto Reinhold Eggers' portfolio of pencil sketches depicts historic structures in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore as well as those of smaller towns in Connecticut,...
Ladies, Women, and Wenches
Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines...
The Guardians on Trial
The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Euthyphro to Phaedo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and *The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-*Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his...
by William H. Peck
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The Material World of Ancient Egypt examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that together reveal the day-to-day physical substance of life in ancient Egypt. This book investigates how people dressed, what they ate, the houses they built, the...
by William H. Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Secrets of the Pink Kush is the true story of a research journey and covers many different topics. The discoveries were so amazing that the author felt compelled to share this research information with the world. There is one plant and chemical extract from it that links all these topics...
Tapping into Unstructured Data
Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics into Business Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
The Definitive Guide to Unstructured Data Management and Analysis--From the World’s Leading Information Management Expert
A wealth of invaluable information exists in unstructured textual form, but organizations have found it difficult or impossible to access and utilize it. This is changing...
by William H. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
When you talk to God is He talking back to you? God uses a variety of creative ways to get our attention. One of the greatest tools that He uses is trials in our lives to draw us close to Him. In the midst of the storm it is hard to understand why it is happening and how to respond. When you realize...
The Pursuit of Power
Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned...
by William H. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart’s...
by William H. Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett’s work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers.
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensive...
by William H. Beezley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating...