J Michael: 2158 books
The Traumatic Colonel
The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative...
by Michael J Roads
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
This is the book I would, long ago, have loved to own. It would have saved me from much anguish, doubts and confusion. Containing over fifty years of my experience, Entering the Secret World of Nature is a brilliant and comprehensive guide on how you can enter realms of wonderment. We are not prisoners...
by Michael J Roads
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“I am aware of how misleading words can be; take the spiritual path, as an example. There is no path, yet this no-path has to be walked to learn that it does not exist. The gulf of separation is another example; there is no gulf of separation, yet we have to cross the gulf to learn that it is the...
by William S. Dancey, Darlene Applegate, David Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland.”
The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West...
by Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...
Grown Men Don’T Cry
A Personal Journey of Despair and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Throughout his childhood and during his twenty years of professional service in the New Zealand Army, author Michael J. Roberts repeatedly heard a message: grown men dont cry. To cope with lifes ups and downs, Roberts put on a mask and effectively concealed his emotions behind itthat is, until he...
Sir Charles Bell
His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta...
Metaphysics
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and...
Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy
Intertextuality on the Jacobean Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Michael J. Redmond argues that early modern intertextuality was a dynamic process of allusion,...
by Michael J. White
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
"Smart, ironic prose...reminiscent of Dave Eggers." -Library Journal
George Flynn is the new nobody at St. Pius High School, until he falls in with the enchanting Schell sisters. Emily, an aspiring actress, is the object of his infatuation. But there's something special about her quirky younger...
Political Augustinianism
Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. In the twentieth century especially, Augustine has been pivotal to the development of modern and contemporary political and social...
by Michael J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In this important new work in political and constitutional theory, Michael J. Perry elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies...
A Global Political Morality
Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly...
by Michael J Foy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Ancient artifacts like nothing ever discovered before are uncovered in Egypt. They are manufactured by a technique unknown to man and defy all attempts at analysis. A few individuals acquire these items including two top intelligence operatives from Russia and the United States. They are instantly...