William Jones William Jones: 77 books
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
by William Heinesen, Glyn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
he Black Cauldron is not a war novel properly speaking, but a work of magic realism which traces a serious of boisterous, tragic-comic events in one of the more unusual western European societies. Spanning the tragedy of war, the clash of sectarian interests, the interplay of religion and sex, The...
An Incomplete Education
3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
A completely updated, revised edition of the classic, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here’s your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint...
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes...
by Jedediah Barry, Dana Cameron, Elyssa East
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Brand-new stories by Paul Tremblay, Seth Greenland, Ben Greenman, Fred Leebron, David L. Ulin, and others.
Book launch timed to land right before the summer season starts.
David L. Ulin is very connected in literary circles, being the outgoing editor of the L.A. Times Book Review
by Frederick H Jones, William J Fielder
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design documents.
Using a dummy example the student...
New Explorations into International Relations
Democracy, Foreign Investment, Terrorism, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture...
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.
The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
by Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Maria Rost Rublee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation...
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility
Perspectives and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication. After outlining a theoretical framework, the themed sections cover: (1) Communication in CSR: The Communicative Role, Strategy and Evaluation; (2) CSR Discourses and...
The Last Viking
In Search of Nazi Gold
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
An unexpected visit from their Jewish banker at the beginning of World War II alerts Wilhelm and Kristin to the horrors of the holocaust. Odin had recently appeared to Kristin, portending an upheaval in their lives; they realized this must be their next adventure. Slipping into Nazi Germany through...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...
The Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...
by David M Jones, William Moskoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The most agonizing and protracted of all the Soviet reform debates has been the debate over economic reform. This anthology of essays and roundtables from party, professional and literary journals surveys the key issues in the market debate.