H Nicholas: 53 books
by Alicia Kestrell Verlager, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nicholas A. Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...
by Donald H. Owings, Michael D. Beecher, Nicholas S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals. Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec tives-had been declining and individual...
The Well-Adjusted Dog
Dr. Dodman's 7 Steps to Lifelong Health and Happiness for Your Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
One of the greatest myths in dog ownership is that once a puppy is housetrained and has graduated from a puppy training class, an owner’s work is done. In fact, that work is just beginning.Drawing on some twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr.Dodman offers what he calls "continuing education"...
The Return of Work in Critical Theory
Self, Society, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation....
Recognition Theory as Social Research
Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored.
Executive Fundamentals
Essential Principles for Developing Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
What are the fundamental qualities of an exemplary executive? Do you possess them?
It’s often easy for executives or aspiring executives to know what they need to do. But it’s much harder to actually do what you know you’re supposed to. Executive effectiveness—or success in any endeavor or...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
Qualitative Analysis Using NVivo
The Five-Level QDA® Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Software is cut and dried – every button you press has a predictable effect – but qualitative analysis is open ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways. This contradiction is best resolved by separating analytic strategies – what you plan to do – from software tactics – how you plan to do...
Learning jQuery Deferreds
Taming Callback Hell with Deferreds and Promises
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Orchestrating asynchronous function calls in JavaScript often leads to callback hell, but there is a reliable way to avoid this painful state of affairs. With this concise and simple guide, you’ll learn how to use jQuery deferreds and promises, an elegant approach for managing asynchronous calls...
by Nicholas H. Kovacs, O.F.S.
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book provides reflective meditations on the seven sacraments in the Catholic Church.
by Nicholas H. Kovacs, O.F.S.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
"Sacraments of Initiation: Intimacy This Side of Heaven", gives a beautiful study on the three sacraments of initiation in the Catholic Church (baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist).
Chinese Military Modernization and Force Development
A Western Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
China’s military development has become a key focus of US security policy as well as that of virtually all Asia-Pacific states. This report from the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy examines trends in Chinese strategy, military spending, and military forces based on Chinese defense white papers and...
Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design
Methods, Practical Guidance, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The integration of Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design (LUP & UD) is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary field. This book offers practical guidance on a range of Human Factors methods that can be used to rigorously and reliably explore LUP & UD.
It provides new...
Soul Mates
Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In 1994, David Hernandez, a small-time drug-dealer in Spanish Harlem, got out of the drug business and turned his life over to God. After he joined Victory Chapel-a vibrant Bronx-based Pentecostal church-he saw his life change in many ways: today he is a member of the NYPD, married, the father of...