L A Jones: 69 books
by Greg Lopez, Bridget Welsh, John Funston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the People’s Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on developments in the last decade and...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Blood in the Rain 4
Eighteen Stories of Vampire Erotica
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Bite me, you say? Be careful what you wish for…
These searing vampire short stories go straight to your unspeakably dark desires.
Biting, drinking blood, sucking souls—they do it all in this scorching new collection.
Whether they are out for a meal or a good time, the vampires...
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
Understanding Sports Coaching
The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully...
by Trimiko Melancon, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Courtney J. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Think Biblically! (Trade Paper): Recovering a Christian Worldview
Recovering a Christian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
Hypodontia
A Team Approach to Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Hypodontia: A Team Approach to Management provides specialist clinicians with a practical reference to the multidisciplinary management of patients with this condition. The book synthesises current information and best practice from specialties involved in the treatment of hypodontia into one comprehensive...