Mark E : 412 books
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
Kafka's Social Discourse
An Aesthetic Search for Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed 'the iron cage' of society. Ferdinand Tsnnies had defined the problem of finding community within society for Kafka and his peers in...
A Republic of Men
The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms...
Public Policy in the United States
Challenges, Opportunities, and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Offering the widest breadth of policy issue coverage on the market, the sixth edition of this well-regarded text covers events through the 2016 elections and beyond. Though the content has been extensively and thoughtfully revised and updated, the sixth edition maintains its clear approach, without...
by Mark E McCann
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This is about being lost and found in someone else and attempting to describe it. If it is the thought that counts;these are rough notes to the perfect love letter.
Evolutionary Restraints
The Contentious History of Group Selection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection—from the gene to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello’s Evolutionary Restraints.
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Stratigraphic Paleobiology
Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, but in the early 1800s, Charles Lyell’s gradualist...
The Art and Science of Aging Well
A Physician's Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full...
Taming Passion for the Public Good
Policing Sex in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual repression back to revolutionary America, Kann asks highly contemporary questions about the boundaries between...
by Petersen, Mark E.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
"In the minds of many people, Adam, the first man, is a controversial figure. So is Eve, his wife. Together they are probably the most misunderstood couple who have ever lived on the earth."So states Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Council of the Twelve in this enlightening book. Drawing from...
by Mark E. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Humanity has been ravaged by alien war. Will the next encounter spell the end of mankind?
3 books and 1,200+ pages of interstellar action. Over 250 five-star ratings on Goodreads!
In the far future, nanotechnology will be all that keeps us alive in a brutal war with the Merkiaari....
by Mark E. Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
On an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ride. Eight years later in a West Chester courtroom photographic evidence was used for the first time. Soon after that the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds...
The Philadelphia Country House
Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century,...
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate...