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by Ms Elaine Berry, Mr James Wells, Mr John W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
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by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Introduction to Criminalistics
The Foundation of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Introduction to Criminalistics covers the basics of Criminalistics in a textbook for a one or two semester course, with the intention of preparing the student for a future in forensic science.
The role of the Criminalist is to analyze, compare, identify, and interpret physical evidence in the...
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
The 2012 Nomination and the Future of the Republican Party
The Internal Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The 2012 Republican nomination process went on longer than most pundits predicted early on. While Mitt Romney began the season as the prohibitive favorite, he was tested repeatedly by what was seemingly the Republican flavor of the week (including Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich,...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
by William Morris, Theric Jepson, D.J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What if the territory of Deseret had never joined the Union and instead became its own nation? What if Leo Tolstoy or Nikola Tesla had converted to the LDS Church? What if Brigham Young had gone all the way to California instead of stopping in Utah? The genre of alternate history invites us to imagine...
Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
From Learning Theory to College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Praise for Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
"The world of today's learners is a multimode, information-intensive universe of interactive bursts and virtual exchanges, yet our teaching methods retain the outdated characteristics of last generation's study-and-drill approach. New...
by Mary T. Clark, Siobhan Nash-Marshall, William Werpehowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...
The Sash Canada Wore
A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. Beginning in 1800, the Order grew steadily in many parts of the country during the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in the early part of the twentieth century. Since then, with the changes in Canadian society, the...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...
by Jason T. Eberl, George A. Dunn, George A. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities...
WikiLeaks
From Popular Culture to Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
“Little did I know that I was getting involved with WikiLeaks at the time of the biggest leaks in human history.” — Birgitta JónsdóttirWithin a relatively short period of time, WikiLeaks became the best-known whistle-blowing organization in the world. Due in large part to the release of massive...
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points.
In conventional...