Jason West: 13 books
The Long Hedge
Preserving Organisational Value through Climate Change Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Part of the Greenleaf Publishing Responsible Investment Series.Mitigating and adapting to risks and changing circumstances is a natural part of doing business. But methods of mitigating and adapting can be quite different in terms of time, cost and observed impacts. The impacts of mitigation activities...
by Bryce Beattie, Julie Frost, Jon Mollison
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Brace yourself for the next exciting issue of StoryHack Action & Adventure. Taking cues from the greatest pulp magazines of a bygone era, StoryHack publishes all-new stories of bravery and derring-do in a wide variety of genres. There is something in here for everyone, and each story includes...
by Fred H. Cate, Katie Shilton, Simon DeDeo
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
TVtherapy
The Television Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Finally, a home theater companion that understands what we’ve all known for years–our favorite TV shows are more than an escape, they’re best friends and a form of therapy that can help us cope with everything from a bad hair day to a nuclear family meltdown.
Life getting boring in your...
Kingdom Encounters
Keys to Unlocking God's Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
Kingdom Encounters is a unique blend of inspiring teaching and life-giving stories with keys to understanding that will motivate and equip you for increased daily encounters with God. This book continues the chronicles of Jay's other books, Downloads From Heaven and Willing To Yield, with captivating,...
Brides Behaving Badly
Wild Wedding Photos You Were Never Meant to See
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Pure, kind, and gracious are some of the qualities one associates with the bride at any wedding--but not here! More than four million Americans get married each year, and not all of the brides are well behaved. This hilarious collection of candid wedding photographs proves that not every bride is...
The Fundamental Index
A Better Way to Invest
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) Finalist/Honorable mention, Business, Finance & Management.
The Fundamental Index examines a new approach to indexing that can overcome the structural return drag created by traditional capitalization-based...
A Flash of Words
49 Flash-Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
From Scout Media comes A Flash of Words—the fifth volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world, but the first in which the stories are exclusively flash-fiction pieces.
In this installation, no limits were set on genre, allowing the authors to...
Fiction Vortex
February 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This month we have stories that are all about people who never expected to be in the positions they find themselves in. This can mean anything from being trapped inside a dragon, to being trapped on a slab in the morgue. To each their own, and whatnot.
FICTION VORTEX:
Founded in the...
by Troy Jollimore, Mark Anderson, Edward F. Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses...
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow
Staking Claims in the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances...
Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to...