James L : 962 books
The Naturalness of Belief
New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Essays in Honor of Lois Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and...
America's Security Deficit
Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United States might adapt military instruments to meet these emerging challenges, assessing in broad terms the cost of defense investments commensurate with the interests at stake.
Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality
The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The civil rights movement of the 1960s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
by L.A. DeVant, Lauren St. James
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
IN ANOTHER LIFE After several years of marriage and motherhood, Lori is forced to re-evaluate her life decisions when a former flame, Jesse, comes back into her world and she realizes that the course of his life was forever changed by the choices she had made in her youth. After 25 years of keeping...
by James A. Samson, David L. Ederer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2000
Techniques of Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy was first published in 1967. In the three decades since, the techniques associated with vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy have been greatly expanded. Originally published as two volumes in the serial "Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences," Vacuum...
Enhancing Communication for Individuals with Autism
A Guide to the Visual Immersion System
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
How can you help children with moderate to severe autism become more effective communicators? Discover the Visual Immersion System (VIS), a practical, research-based intervention framework that taps into the strong visual processing skills many children on the spectrum have. You'll learn how to use readily...
CBT for Panic Attacks
Simple explanations about the causes of anxiety, panic attacks and panic disorder with advice on how to stop panic symptoms using CBT
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
An important question we asked ourselves before writing this book was – Do CBT books for panic that are already available accurately represent what CBT has to offer right now? The answer we arrived at was quite simply NO. Current clinical practice of CBT has developed so rapidly that it has now...
Putting Image Repair to the Test
Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
*Putting Image Repair to the Test:*Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image repair discourse, its effects, and the surrounding discourse. The contributors provide empirical data...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Beyond the Blockade
New Currents in Cuban Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This innovative volume builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues. The chapters included herein span a wide range of subjects across the full chronological spectrum. Most...
by James Otis, L. J. Bridgeman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. “It was a sight well calculated to stir the blood of a boy from Virginia” (Page 227) Frontispiece