Jeffrey: 3395 books
by Jeffrey Stonecash
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This single volume work examines whether class political divisions have increased or decreased over time in America. Most studies have concluded that class differences have declined, and that Democrats have alienated their electoral base--the working class. However, counter to these scholarly and...
Practical Aviation Security
Predicting and Preventing Future Threats
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Third Edition is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the...
Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building
Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation-state of Brazil. While “Brazil” had geographic meaning, it did not constitute a cohesive political identity that could draw...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Essays on the History of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores...
The Case for Polarized Politics
Why America Needs Social Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
No movement resembling American social conservatism exists anywhere else in the world of affluent democracy encompassing western Europe and Japan. This simple, undeniable fact has led many commentators to treat social conservatism as a retro” movement soon to disappear in the U. S. as well, an...
Interpreting Congressional Elections
The Curious Case of the Incumbency Effect
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The increase in the "incumbency effect" has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections. This important new book challenges the empirical claim that incumbents are doing better and the research paradigm that accompanied the claim. It also...
Split
Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Talk of politics in the United States today is abuzz with warring red and blue factions. The message is that Americans are split due to deeply-held beliefs—over abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research, prayer in public schools. Is this cultural divide a myth, the product of elite partisans? Or...
by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Nicole Mellow
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also been built on defeated candidates, failed presidents,...
Speaking with the People's Voice
How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The role of public opinion in American democracy has been a central concern of scholars who frequently examine how public opinion influences policy makers and how politicians, especially presidents, try to shape public opinion. But in Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public...
Making War, Thinking History
Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use--or not use--force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the NATO war on Serbia. Specifically, he looks at the influence of two analogies: the democracies? appeasement...
by E. Scott Pretorius, MD, Jeffrey A. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Radiology Secrets Plus—a Secrets Series title in the new PLUS format—offers an easy-to-read, information-at-your-fingertips approach to radiology. Drs. E. Scott Pretorius and Jeffrey A. Solomon provide the expert perspective you need to grasp the nuances of this specialty. This new edition offers...
by Jeffrey A. Carver
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Dragons in space? A preposterous legend. But when star pilot Jael defies an abusive ship’s master and rigs “the mountain route” through the hyperdimensional Flux, the dragons indeed appear—and challenge her to duel. If she escapes, she would be wise never to return. But the currents of the...
What the Bones Tell Us
An Anthropologist Examines the Evidence in an Attempt to Unravel Ancient Mysteries and Modern Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Jeffrey Schwartz, professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, ranges from digs in the Negev Desert through Africa and Europe to the local coroner's office to explain how interpretations of the past are made. What...
by Jeffrey W. Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Amongst the challenges that elementary teachers may often face as they introduce their students to science is the need to maintain a solid understanding of the many scientific concepts and details themselves. This indispensible resource, intended for pre- and in-service elementary school teachers,...