P D James: 187 books
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Ecological Principles of Landscape Management
Soils and the Processes That Determine Success of Landscape Designs, Farms and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
During the last decade many graduate-level Landscape Architecture students have taken our ecology classes tailored to their profession. However, relatively few students training to create attractive living spaces actually had significant basic fundamental knowledge of ecology, chemistry or soils....
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
by James W. Myers, Jonathan P. Moorman, Cassandra D. Salgado
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Since publication of the First Edition in 1979, much has changed in the way we view, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases. The Sixth Edition of this respected reference focuses on challenging clinical situations faced by practitioners of all levels who deal with infectious diseases. The latest...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics
Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
by Arthur P. Boresi, Ken Chong, James D. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics has been prized by many aspiring and practicing engineers as an easy-to-navigate guide to an area of engineering science that is fundamental to aeronautical, civil, and mechanical engineering, and to other branches of engineering. With its focus not only on elasticity...
by Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...
Transcendence and Film
Cinematic Encounters with the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...