J Thomas: 1181 books
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges...
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Hyperpartisanship is as old as American democracy. But now, acrimony is not confined to a moment; it's a permanent state of affairs and has seeped into every part of the political process. Identifying the overriding problems that have led Congress-and the United States-to the brink of institutional...
Not Even Past
Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox...
by Thomas J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written...
by Herman Graf, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A timeless anthology of chilling tales known to torment the mind and stir up nightmarish visions that can never be unseen.
Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological terror: these are just some of the subjects explored by the unparalleled writers in this superb collection. Lovers...
by Thomas S. Weinberg, Professor Gerhard J. falk, Dr. Ursula Adler Falk
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems;...
Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Rights, Liberties, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Capturing the authors’ excitement for constitutional law, this updated Tenth Edition of Constitutional Law for a Changing America shows you how judicial decisions are influenced by political factors—from lawyers and interest groups, to the shifting sentiments of public opinion, to the ideological...
Constitutional Law for a Changing America
Institutional Powers and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
A host of political factors—both internal and external—influence the Court’s decisions and shape the development of constitutional law. Among the more significant forces at work are the ways lawyers and interest groups frame legal disputes, the ideological and behavioral propensities of the...
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...
Successful Marriages and Families
Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Issued by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in 1995, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" has instructed and inspired Latter-day Saints throughout the world, including many LDS scholars who seek to strengthen and defend marriages and families. This new volume, edited by...
Longing to See Your Face
Preaching in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Thomas Scirghi, SJ, has trained priests, deacons, and lay ecclesial ministers in the art and theology of preaching for decades. In Longing to See Your Face, he makes his insights and experience accessible to a much wider audience.
Scirghi begins with a discussion of the purpose of preaching...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
by Gloria J. Miller, Thomas D. Queisser, Thomas Goettsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
“Mobilizing technology and teams for better decision-making” is the results from a global internet survey on how organizations use business intelligence software in decision-making. Businesses around the world were asked to benchmark how technology is being used to help make better decisions....
The Definitive Guide to Transportation
Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions...