Michael E : 776 books
by Starley Talbott, Michael E. Kassell
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The story of the United States Transcontinental Air Mail Service, the first of its kind in the world, is one of romanticism and danger. Through calm or storm, in light or dark, a contingent of courageous couriers relayed the public mail across three thousand miles in less than a day and a half--faster...
Apple Training Series
iLife (iLife '09 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife ’09, the authors have you working miracles with iLife within the first few pages. Featuring footage and images from around the world, this book uses real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to your own projects. Focused lessons...
Color Drawing
Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings.
Update with over 100 pages, this Third Edition contains an entirely...
Future Bright
A Transforming Vision of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two....
Miracles and Wonders
The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Beginning in the late twelfth century, scholastic theologians such as William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas and Engelbert of Admont attempted to provide a rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles, bolstered by the Aristotelian theory of natural law. Similarly in this period a tension...
Enduring Desire
Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Winner of the 2011 AASECT Book Award!
Co-authors of Men’s Sexual Health, Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy have come together to inspire and motivate readers in their newest book, Enduring Desire. Real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises allow readers to reach for...
Beating the Blues
New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Mild depressions are so insidious that sufferers often don't seek help. They think, "that's just the way I am. There's really not much I can do about it." As Dr. Michael Thase and science writer Susan S. Lang reveal, they can do something about it. Persistent mild depression, which afflicts up to...
by Michael E. Bakich
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In this book Astronomy Magazine editor Michael Bakich presents all the information you’ll need to be ready for the total solar eclipse that will cross the United States on August 21, 2017. In this one resource you’ll find out where the eclipse will occur, how to observe it safely, what you’ll...
The Science of War
Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand...
The Opportunity
Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington...
The Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
America needs better options for resolving potential crises
In recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country?...
The $650 Billion Bargain
The Case for Modest Growth in America's Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
U.S. defense spending isn’t excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it’s both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world.
The United States spends a lot of money on defense-$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael...
A War Like No Other
The Truth About China's Challenge to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore."
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Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and...