John H : 963 books
by John H. Elliott
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2017
John H. Elliott, el más prestigioso hispanista británico, reflexiona con estos ensayos, charlas y artículos sobre la política, la cultura y las ideas en Europa y el mundo colonial.
Autor de algunos de los trabajos más influyentes sobre el mundo hispánico, Elliott siempre ha sabido analizar...
by John H. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But not...
Reflections of Our Past
How Human History Is Revealed in Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
The rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our ancestors were. John H. Relethford and Deborah A. Bolnick explore this topic and many more in this second edition of Reflections of...
What Is a Human?
What the Answers Mean for Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will...
Born to Choose
Evolution, Self, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Born to Choose is John H. Falk’s compelling account of why and how we make the endless set of choices we do, every second of every day of our lives. Synthesizing research from across the biological and social sciences, Falk argues that human choice-making is an evolutionarily ancient and complex...
by John H. Minan
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The Little Book of Golf Law is back again with completely new and updated stories of your favorite pastime! John H. Minan writes on how violating "the law" of golf — as opposed to the rules that govern the game — can have serious consequences. In ten parts covering legal areas from torts...
Diminishing Returns at Work
The Consequences of Long Working Hours
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The relationship between the number of hours worked and productivity has long fascinated economists and management. It is a central component of the production function that translates inputs to outputs. While increasing the number of hours someone works may increase output, this incisive book demonstrates...
The Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party...
by John H. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2010
Every evening Joshua, a manager at FishBurgers, walks home alone. One night, he comes across Mariella, an unusual young woman sitting on a bench. He's thrown for a loop when she tells him where she's from, but he doesn't mind. He doesn't mind the fact that she has blue hair either,...
Microdramas
Crucibles for Theater and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August...
Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance
The Mirror up to Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut...
by John H. Dodds
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
1 John H. Dodds The culture offragmen ts of plant tissue is not a particularly new science, in fact as long ago as 1893 Rechinger (1893) described the formation of callus on isolated fragments of stems and roots. The culture of plant tissues in vitro on a nutrient medium was performed by Haberlandt...
NKJV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, eBook
Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient world
You’ve heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing? Sometimes a little context is all you need to discover the rich meaning behind even the most familiar stories of Scripture....
The Small Nation Solution
How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is...