James P : 719 books
Wearing the Robe
The Art and Responsibilities of Judging in Today’s Courts
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What do Hammurabi, Solomon, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. have in common? They all presided as judges, relying on a precise understanding of the law to mete out justice. Today’s judges, too, have a significant opportunity to intelligently resolve disputes and artfully change lives, but they also...
by James P. Blaylock
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Metamorphosis is collection of three short stories, written by three young students in collaboration by James P. Blaylock for a class taught by Tim Powers, who provides the introduction.
Mirrors, shadows, and secret rooms: the houses in which we dwell are sometimes much stranger than...
The Pursuit of Justice
A Personal Philosophical History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The Pursuit of Justice: A Personal Philosophical History is a collection of renowned scholar and philosopher James P. Sterba’s finest works - essays spanning the full spectrum of his illustrious career along with new scholarship on the enduring struggle for justice we face as a society, and as individuals...
Jury Ethics
Juror Conduct and Jury Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Trial by jury is one of the most important aspects of the U.S. legal system. A reflective look at how juries actually function brings out a number of ethical questions surrounding juror conduct and jury dynamics: Do citizens have a duty to serve as jurors? Might they seek exemptions? Is it acceptable...
Lean Solutions
How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Womack and Jones deconstruct the broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it, by providing the full value consumers desire from products without wasting time or effort.
Why is it that, when our computers or our cell phones fail to satisfy our needs, virtually every interaction...
The Try
The Secret to Success in Life and Career
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What is it that separates the doers, leaders, and success stories among us from the dreamers, also-rans, and wannabes? To bestselling author James P. Owen, it’s all about having The Try—the quality of giving 110 percent to the task or challenge at hand.
In The Try—a dozen true stories...
Cowboy Ethics
What It Takes to Win at Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A new approach to business ethics is quietly taking hold in executive suites and corporate boardrooms across America. Frustrated by an epidemic of misbehavior at all employee levels, management teams are getting back to basics-back to the idea that personal character and individual responsibility...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
In the early 1960s, civil rights activists and the Kennedy administration engaged in parallel, though not always complementary, efforts to overcome Mississippi’s extreme opposition to racial desegregation. In The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960–1964, James...
The Politics of National Capitalism
Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial...
The Try
Reclaiming the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
What is it that separates the doers, leaders, and success stories among us from the dreamers, also-rans, and wannabes? To bestselling author James P. Owen, it’s all about having The Try— the quality of giving 110 percent to the task or challenge at hand.
In The Try—a dozen true stories...
Paul's Theology in Context
Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul.
Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s...
Horace Holley
Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781--1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University -- the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others...
CBASP as a Distinctive Treatment for Persistent Depressive Disorder
Distinctive features
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is the only psychotherapy model developed specifically for chronic depression. In the latest addition to the successful Distinctive Features series, the developer of CBASP, James P. McCullough Jr., along with Elisabeth Schramm and...
by James P Sismanes
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
"What if I told you, you could rob a bank and nobody would know?"
Jon Jinks is society’s paradigm of the ‘ideal man.’ The charitable heir of Allentown, a hard-working house painter and a devoted spouse, he exists in a wonted and repetitive reality. But when an unexpected encounter...