William J: 1364 books
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the Politics of Slavery convincingly argues that national and slavery-related issues were the overriding...
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing...
by William Allen White, William J. Glackens, Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Ours is a little town in that part of the country called the West by those who live east of the Alleghanies, and referred to lovingly as back East by those who dwell west of the Rockies. It is a country town where, as the song goes, you know everybody and they all know you, and the country newspaper office is the social clearing-house.
Why We Fight
Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
The events of September 11, 2001, were an unforgettable tragedy, but they also revealed that the spirit of America is strong and undiminished. Not since the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor has the nation pulled together with such unity and purpose, resolving to endure whatever hardships may be necessary...
Ludwig Wittgenstein - A Cultural Point of View
Philosophy in the Darkness of this Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In the preface to his Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein expresses pessimism about the culture of his time and doubts as to whether his ideas would be understood in such a time: 'I make them public with doubtful feelings. It is not impossible that it should fall to the lot of this work,...
by William J. Stillman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Cretan Revolt was an uprising against the ruling Ottoman Turks starting in 1866. The revolt was eventually suppressed by 1869, as the Ottomans gave further rights to Christian Cretans for local rule. Â This account of the Cretan Insurrection is authored by William Stillman, the U.S. consul in Crete at the time.
UFO Hunters Book Two
The Official Companion to the Hit Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A young girl digs up a thousand-year-old humanoid skull from a cave in northern Mexico. But the skull contains no human DNA.
An amateur videographer taking footage of lights over Mount Shasta, California, captures a giant floating triangle on tape. It's not a plane. It's not a helicopter. What...
by William J. Purkis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and...
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)
A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The concept of God's two kingdoms was foundational to Luther and subsequent Lutheran theology. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, that concept has been understood primarily as a political concept. But is a political reading of the two kingdoms a perversion of Luther's teaching?
Leading...
Forward Together
A Moral Message for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing,...
3 Vs. 3 Soccer
How to Bring Home the Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Discover the secrets that take a skilled small-sided soccer team to the championship level. This book will give you the strategies and plays to take home a championship trophy in small-sided soccer. Learn the philosophy, positioning, and mindset necessary to win at all levels. You will want to keep...
Policy and Choice
Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that...
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman
Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics—and it has defied solution...
The Free-Market Innovation Machine
Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present? Why have living standards in countries from America to Germany to Japan risen exponentially over the past century? William Baumol rejects the conventional view that capitalism...