Michael William: 249 books
Presidency and Domestic Policy
Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Barack Obama and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each. Success in bringing about policy change is shown to hinge on the leadership style and skill in managing a variety of institutional and public relationships....
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
by Taner Akçam, Cengiz Aktar, Madawi Al-Rasheed
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary religious cleansing in the Middle East. It provides a platform for a host of distinguished scholars, journalists, human rights activists, and political...
Cracking the Common Core
Choosing and Using Texts in Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature, informational texts, and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It presents clear-cut ways to analyze text complexity, design...
Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
There is a Gunman on Campus
Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades...
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
Philosophy Imprisoned
The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Western philosophy’s relationship with prisons stretches from Plato’s own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside and outside prison...
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 Hauskeller, Chris A. Kramer, Will Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism...
by Michael Kroes, William Watkins, Frank Delp
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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Aircraft Maintenance & Repair, Seventh Edition, is a valuable resource for students of aviation technology that provides updated information needed to prepare for an FAA airframe...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...