William O : 310 books
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
Heidegger's Being and Time
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
The Hard Work of Hope
Climate Change in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develop effective solutions to the growing urgency for global action on climate change.
The Hard Work...
The Columbia River Treaty
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, with additional emphasis on flood protection for...
by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, Matthew H. Slater
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Original essays by leading scholars consider the environment from biological and ethical perspectives.
by Abdul Kasim, Prasanna Adhikari, Nan Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies
Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides,...
Own Yourself
How to Form Your Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Own Yourself is “hands-on” course in ethics and morality. Its goal is to assist students to come to know who they genuinely are and who they want to become as they move into adulthood.
by Adrean Messmer, Sean M. Thompson, Julie K. Godard
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
Now you're playing with…
TERROR
Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...
by O'Conner William D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A deeply moralistic book that dwells on various super-natural aspects. The virtue in repentance and the feeling of guilt are elucidated in this work. The work is unique in its own right.
Global Multiculturalism
Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2000
Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries_each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity...