James Malcolm: 58 books
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
by Edward Whelan, Jeremy Rabkin, Joseph Postell
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Freedom and the Rule of Law takes a critical look at the historical beginnings of law in the United States, and how that history has influenced current trends regarding law and freedom. Anthony Peacock has compiled articles that examine the relationship between freedom and the rule of law in America....
Becoming Enemies
U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and...
by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives....
Professional Values and Practice
Achieving the Standards for QTS
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards...
by Benjamin Fraser, Les Roberts, Malcolm Alan Compitello
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
Transcendence and Film
Cinematic Encounters with the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner...
Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World
Fresh Air on My Face
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways...
Regeneration Songs
Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt...
Van Gogh among the Philosophers
Painting, Thinking, Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
Internet Governance
The NETmundial Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
“Following up on the promise of the NETMundial meeting, this timely and useful book explores the challenges of implementing its roadmap for the future of Internet governance.” — Milton L. Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USAInternet Governance: The NETmundial...
by Peter Malcolm James
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Why would I even think to write a book with a title like this? Why do I smile and say hello to so many people I meet every day? Because I might be the only person who has done it and we dont know what people are going through but I can assure you the feedback is always excellent. Everything I write...