E James: 987 books
Hamlet on the Couch
What Shakespeare Taught Freud
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two.
Hamlet can be read almost as a psychoanalytic case study and be used to understand and illustrate...
Choosing Our Choices
Debating the Presidential Nominating Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary...
The New Angry American Woman!
How Can the New Angry American Woman Prosper in Her World Today?
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
An American woman can have a successful love life, family and a very rewarding vocation, if she goes about it in the right way. "There are at most 2 million CAREER OPPORTUNITIES in America today, mostly held by men. But there are about another 100 million jobs, such as brick layer, waitress, middle manager,...
Excellent Public Relations and Effective Organizations
A Study of Communication Management in Three Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This book is the final product of the "excellence project"--a comprehensive research effort commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation. Going well beyond any of the previously published reports on the Excellence study, this book contains...
Contentious Republicans
Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Contentious Republicans explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia, a country many assume has never had a meaningful democracy of any sort. James E. Sanders describes a surprisingly rich republicanism characterized by legal rights and...
Adolescent Storm and Stress
An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people "came of age" with a minimum of "storm and stress." In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthropologist, published a book...
Boundaries
A Casebook in Environmental Ethics, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future. Boundaries begins with a lucid overview...
Global Piracy
A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which...
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Waiting on God’S Directions
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
When involved in the ministry, it can be easy to go from times of inspiring, fulfilling work to moments of isolation and loneliness. So as servants of God, what should we do when left without direction nor a glimmer of understanding? How do we find that flicker of direction and hope amid the darkness...
Jury Ethics
Juror Conduct and Jury Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Trial by jury is one of the most important aspects of the U.S. legal system. A reflective look at how juries actually function brings out a number of ethical questions surrounding juror conduct and jury dynamics: Do citizens have a duty to serve as jurors? Might they seek exemptions? Is it acceptable...
Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture
A Social Psychological Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The goal of Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture is to lay the basis of a theory with which to better understand the difficulties and complexities of identity formation. It provides an extensive understanding of identity formation as it relates to human striving (agency) and social organization...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
by James E Hartley, James E. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Rpresentative agent models have become a predominant means of studying the macroeconomy in modern economics without there being much discussion in the literature about their propriety or usefulness. This volume evaluates the use of these models in macroeconomics, examining the justifications for their...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...