A Thomas: 872 books
by Thomas A. Reppetto
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city. Battleground New York City examines the history of domestic security operations and the people and agencies involved in safeguarding ôthe city that never sleeps.öStarting...
Zakim and Boyer's Hepatology
A Textbook of Liver Disease E-Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Get the authoritative, up-to-date information you need on liver disease from the 7th Edition of the most trusted reference worldwide. Covering both basic science and recent clinical developments, this revised edition by Drs. Arun J. Sanyal, Thomas D. Boyer, Norah A. Terrault, and Keith D. Lindor,...
With the World at Heart
Studies in the Secular Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy,...
by E.W. Pierce, Monica Leonelle, A.T. Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Waldron's Gate, capital of Alterra. A land powered by steam, but inspired by the power of dreams, and surrounded by the mysterious Fog. The Dream Engine explored this city. Now you are invited to go Beyond The Gate. Twenty-three authors will take you over, under, into, and beyond the...
America's Church
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is...
by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.
Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary...
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience...
by Thomas Atwood, G. A. Henty, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
This volume provides what its title suggests, important historical and general information on the Caribbean island commonly known as Hispaniola and the two countries that coexist there: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The five complete works included herein are:
“The History of the Island...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
by Thomas A. Szlezák
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy.
Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot...
Where Credit is Due
Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color;...
Conquistadores de la Calle
Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are...
by Thomas A. Stetz, Robert L. Lovler, Leslie A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Student Study Guide for Foundations of Psychological Testing has 15 chapters corresponding to those in the main textbook and follows a consistent structure for quick and easy access to key information. To help students understand and apply material related to psychological testing, authors Thomas...
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons...