H Gardner: 26 books
Averting Global War
Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing _war on terrorism_; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US confrontation with Iran; the feud between...
Guardian of Cupid's Heart
Evermore Island Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Welcome to Evermore Island, where fairy tale creatures work tirelessly to ensure holidays go off without a hitch. Dagfinn Snorkelbone is a woodland elf recently promoted to the Arbor Day Department, but he has higher career ambitions.
Dagfinn dreams of landing a job matchmaking in the Valentine’s...
Punishment and Responsibility
Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Phobias and How to Overcome Them
Understanding And Beating Your Fears
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Fear of flying, fear of spiders, fear of crowds, fear of needles. There seems an endless list of phobias that between them afflict up to half the population. This book describes the most common hang-ups and how to come to terms with them.
Heart Attack!
Advice for Patients by Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Millions of people-many of them younger than we care to believe-are living in the aftermath of a heart attack, and it is vital for them to learn how to reduce the risk factors for subsequent heart problems. This unique and important book offers advice to survivors of a heart attack and also to those...
by D.H. Becker, L.B. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Prevention of disease and injury, including early identification of risks and disease and optimal control of potentially debilitating or fatal complications of chronic conditions, is the area of clinical medicine that holds the greatest promise for improving human health. Each year a long list of...
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