James H : 713 books
by James H Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Lonnie, and his friend Text, spend their days in the streams and woods of Mississippi poking sticks in doodlebug holes, looking for crawdad castles, and catching sweet stinker bugs for good luck, All the while they keenly observe Lonnie's father, Harve McNeil, train his champion bird dogs....
by James H Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Life in Western North Carolina for boys and girls and hunting dogs is full of wild boars, secret signals, hidden stills, places with names like Fiefield Bald, Shuckstack, Neale's Gap, Little Mossy, Blue Run, and, of course, Doc Willet's drugstore and an ice cream sundae called the Idiot's Delight...
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...
Saipan
The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell’s Pocket, under a commander known as “Howlin’ Mad.” Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing...
Implausible Dream
The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher education
Universities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be “world-class,” institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions...
World Without End
Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1999
"In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues that for mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency.... Moorhead offers some brilliant observations about the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive...
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
Playing
Christian Explorations Of Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Playing often connotes frivolity. But James Evans, in this insightful study, offers another view: playing lies at the heart of Christian faith in the triune God. Through a close examination of African-American literature and experience, and a re-examination of basic doctrinal affirmations, Evans recovers...
by Sir James H. Jeans
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Sir James Jeans, noted British scientist, has given a physical analysis of musical sounds, in what is considered to be the best exposition on the subject, a book of great intellectual stature. His aim has been to convey precise information, in a simple non-technical way, that will be of interest to...
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Upon its original publication...
Abandoning Vietnam
How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic "defeat with shame"? While James Willbanks doesn't offer any easy answers to that question,...
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge
A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
In this second edition of Steve Fuller's original work Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies, James Collier joins Fuller in developing an updated and accessible version of Fuller's classic volume. The new edition shifts focus slightly to...
Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach
Theory, Research, and Differential Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, James Kleiger provides a thoroughly up-to-date text that covers the entire range of clinical and diagnostic issues associated with the phenomenon of disordered thinking as revealed on the Rorschach. Kleiger guides the reader through the history of psychiatric...
by Sir James H. Jeans
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In addition to being among the twentieth century’s major scientific figures, Sir James Jeans (1877–1946) was also one of the greatest modern science expositors. His classic introduction to mechanics endures as a clear and concise presentation of first principles.Although brief, it encompasses a remarkably...