John R : 1297 books
Liquid City
Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description...
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
Islam, the State, and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social...
Scripture and Social Justice
Catholic and Ecumenical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling...
by John R. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
First established in the 1700s as a forge village, Waterloo--located in Sussex County, New Jersey--has endured several eras of decline and growth. An industrial hub and farming community, it played a role in the American Revolution. When the canal arrived, Waterloo reinvented itself into a vital transportation...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
Congressional Careers
Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
According to a Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans want elected officials to serve only a limited number of terms. Nevertheless, every two years American voters return, on average, more than 95 percent of incumbents to the U.S. House of Representatives. John Hibbing's book provides unique evidence...
by John R. Stilgoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past,...
Alliance Management and Maintenance
Restructuring NATO for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The maintenance and management of the NATO alliance is a delicate balancing act between responding to security threats and navigating the bargaining positions of the member states. This book highlights how the alliance managed to maintain that balance in an area critical to its operations today around...
The Global English Style Guide
Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
The Global English Style Guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English,...
Tracks of a Fellow Struggler
Living and Growing Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
With over a million copies sold, one’s pastor’s personal experience with devastating grief—and learning to heal through faith—has touched countless hearts.
John Claypool had been a pastor for almost two decades, ministering to others who suffered through the loss of loved ones, when...
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Sherman Invades Georgia
Planning the North Georgia Campaign Using a Modern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
A longtime Special Forces officer with a Ph.D. in systems engineering presents a new perspective on one of the legendary campaigns of the Civil War, General William T. Sherman's invasion of Georgia. Unlike most Civil War books that either treat individual battles and campaigns in a historical sense and...
The Platonic Political Art
A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2001
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be...