Zachary: 443 books
Wish You Were Here
Love & Longing in an American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Wish You Were Here offers a clear-eyed yet tender look at life in the modern Midwest from the perspective of a seventh-generation ruralite. Championing the romance of wide-open spaces in a rapidly urbanizing world, Zachary Michael Jack challenges the stereotypes of rural and small-town midwestern...
We Had More To Say
Poems from the Pilgrimage Road
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Ortiz’s poems expand the idea of pilgrimage to include those experiences which touch some profound dimension within, when connections are made with what might be called “soul” or “spirit,” when the tourist becomes the seeker, and sight-seeing magically turns into soul-making. The sacred...
Becoming Bureaucrats
Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is ultimately enacted and experienced by citizens. While we know a great deal about bureaucrats and their actions, we know little about their development....
Making the Case for Leadership
Profiles of Chief Advancement Officers in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The advancement industry has experienced tremendous growth in breadth and depth over the last few decades. Driving this growth is the chief advancement officer; however, as a relatively new position on most college and university campuses, little is formally known about the role and the people who...
Boundary Bargain
Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated. Although these areas were once thought to be distinct because of their diverse sets of values, economies, labour trends, and ways of life, more recently, and in response to regional growth, governments...
The Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously...
Truffle
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What is a truffle? Is it the über-shroom, the highest order of fungal foods? Does it arrive, as some cultures feel, in the moment of a thunderclap? One thing is for sure: despite its unappetizing appearance, the truffle is without a doubt one of the most prized ingredients in the world’s pantry....
A Sense of the Enemy
The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his...
by Zachary Purvis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany examines the dual transformation of institutions and ideas that led to the emergence of theology as science, the paradigmatic project of modern theology associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Beginning with earlier educational reforms across...
by Zachary Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
When two teenage boys accidentally stumble upon a murder scene in a dark forest, they quickly turn from innocent bystanders to suspected murderers, on the run from the law. They are in search of one simple thing which turns out to be very elusive…. the truth. Through cities, towns and forests, they...
by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional...
World War 2 Women: Incredible Stories And Accounts Of World War 2 Women Spies, Heroes And Informers
World War 2 Women, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Clichéd though it may be, a human being’s true strength of character is reflected in the most difficult of times. The world had to sit up and take note of just how strong a woman could be when the two world wars hit.
Even taking the side of the traditionalists, one could deny that women...
World War II Submarines: Stunning World War 2 Submarine Stories And Warfare From The Depths Of The Ocean
World War 2 Submarines, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
War is perhaps that one occurrence that has held captive the attention of man for eons after it is over. This is quite natural as well, for the repercussions of war are such that the aftershocks are felt long after the last bomb was dropped and the last cannon boomed.
We as human beings find...
Common Ground?
Readings and Reflections on Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal...