Michael King: 87 books
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
The Tigers of Bastogne
Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in...
by John Helfers, Michael A. Stackpole, Mel Odom
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
DARKNESS EVERYWHERE...
The Sixth World is a dangerous place, with deadly hazards lurking around every corner. Everywhere shadowrunners go, from the top of the world to the deepest, darkest sprawl neighborhood, someone’s always looking to make their rep by taking you down.
World of...
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level
A Workbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
by Ben Fogle, Michael Palin, Jonathan Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Elementary Level
A Workbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next...
Sulfuric Acid Manufacture
Analysis, Control and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
By some measure the most widely produced chemical in the world today, sulfuric acid has an extraordinary range of modern uses, including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservative and lead-acid batteries. An exceptionally corrosive and dangerous acid, production of sulfuric...
by Matt King, Michael Moats, Matthew J. King
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
More sulfuric acid is produced every year than any other chemical. It has a wide range of uses including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservatives, and lead-acid batteries. It is also a particularily corrosive and dangerous acid, with extreme environmental and health hazards...
by Michael Jensen, David Powers King
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2017
AM SEIDENEN FADEN... Jedes Menschenschicksal ist ein Faden in einem riesigen Wandteppich, heißt es. Nels‘ Faden wird durchtrennt, als er heimtückisch ermordet wird. Der Junge, der davon träumte, Ritter zu werden, erwacht als Geist und ist für alle unsichtbar - außer für Prinzessin Tyra. Gemeinsam...
by Michael L. King
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to walk and talk with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? This book, "The Unknown Disciple," leads you on a a journey to the manger where Jesus lay as a new born babe, and then follows the life of one of the unknown shepherds as he comes...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
Voices of the Bulge
Untold Stories from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The powerful German counteroffensive operation code-named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought from December...