Paul John: 506 books
Planning for Rural Resilience
Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats. Planning...
Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton...
Be Transformed
How A 15-Year-Old Lost 70 Pounds in 3 Months Using the Power of GOD
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
At the age of 15 years old, the author lost 70 pounds in 3 months. Before he did, his friend called him a “fat piece of shit.” Three months later, the same friend’s girlfriend told him “you are so hot, you are so hot!” It was the equivalent of going from rags to riches. Everything changed and...
by Paul J.J. Welfens, David B. Audretsch, John T. Addison
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
High unemployment rates in the period of an internationalization of economies and an intensified technological competition are the main problems that exist in most EU countries. Taking stock of unemployment patterns, technological trends and employment opportunities in the EU and the US is crucial...
by Paul J.J. Welfens, S. Jungbluth, John T. Addison
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the new global economy, more countries have opened up to international competition and rapid capital flows. However, in the triad the process of globalization is rather asymmetric. With a rising role of multinational companies there are favorable prospects for higher global growth and economic...
Beyond Terror
The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security?
Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming...
Peace on Earth
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation...
War along the Border
The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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From Public Health to Wellbeing
The New Driver for Policy and Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
There has never been more awareness of the public health agenda, as policy-makers stress the importance of 'wellbeing' to the general public. Charting the history and evolution of the public health agenda, this insightful reader argues the place of wellbeing in local and national strategy. It identifies...
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism
A Comnaz Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical...
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...
by John Paul Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their successful...