M Smith: 550 books

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Art as Spiritual Perception

Essays in Honor of E. John Walford

by Graham Birtwistle, Willam A. Dyrness, Linda Møskeland Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012

Making a critical contribution to the field of art history, this reader covers everything from sixth-century icons to contemporary art from a Christian perspective. Written by experts around the world, this book reflects the work of noted scholars, most especially John Walford and Hans Rookmaaker,...
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Animals and War

Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

by Ian Smith, Justin Goodman, Raj Ramanathapillai
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war...
Book cover of Teaching in an Age of Ideology
by Leah Bradshaw, Charles R. Embry, Molly Brigid Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and...
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Collaborative Environmental Management

What Roles for Government-1

by Tomas M. Koontz, Toddi A. Steelman, JoAnn Carmin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010

Collaboration has become a popular approach to environmental policy, planning, and management. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, and industry, government officials at all levels have experimented with collaboration. Yet questions remain about the roles that governments play...
Book cover of Roman Catholicism in the United States
by Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
Book cover of Computational Fluid Dynamics with Moving Boundaries
by Wei Shyy, H. S. Udaykumar, Madhukar M. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

This text describes several computational techniques that can be applied to a variety of problems in thermo-fluid physics, multi-phase flow, and applied mechanics involving moving flow boundaries. Step-by-step discussions of numerical procedures include multiple examples that employ algorithms in problem-solving.In...
Book cover of Mystic
by J. Huguenin, M. Earl Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017

On the banks of the Mystic River, the Connecticut community of Mystic has a maritime history that stretches back beyond the founding of the nation. Starting as a Native American settlement, the area switched hands—first to the Dutch, then to the English—before finally becoming a part of the United...
Book cover of Philadelphia Big 5
by M. Earl Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018

In the "City of Brotherly Love," there are few things taken as seriously as local bragging rights. In a city that lives and dies with its sports heroes, basketball is no exception. This volume traces the lore and history behind Philadelphia's Big 5, an informal basketball league that features...
Book cover of Safety
by Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, Becky S. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014

Children deserve to play and learn in safe environments. The earlier children understand safety concepts, the more naturally they will de¬velop the attitudes and respect that lead to lifelong patterns of safe behavior. Support children as they begin to incorporate actions into their lives that make...
Book cover of Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

by Jeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally...
Book cover of The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
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Cuba's Forgotten Decade

How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution

by Mervyn J. Bain, Guy Baron, Anna Clayfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018

The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero

Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics

by Laura Hinton, Renee M. Kingan, Linda Kinnahan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
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Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
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