William D James: 75 books

Book cover of Texans on the Brink

Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by Neil B. Ford, David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
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American Catholics

Gender, Generation, and Commitment

by William V. D'Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001

How much do American Catholics still identify with the Catholic Church? Do they agree with the Church's teachings, and how often do they participate in its sacraments? What do they think it takes to be a good Catholic? What do they consider to be the Church's core teachings? How do they believe issues...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 1
by Ms Elaine Berry, Mr James Wells, Mr John W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Sample content Not sure what you're getting if you buy this book? Click on the cover image below to open a PDF and preview pages from the book.  Alternatively, watch our informative video introduction.
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
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Peace versus Justice

Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes

by Patrick Audebert-Lasrochas, Juan Carlos M. Beltramino, Franz Cede
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
Book cover of The Idea of the American University
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
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...
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Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

by James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Daniel Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...
Book cover of The Politically Correct University

The Politically Correct University

Problems, Scope, and Reforms

by Robert Maranto, Fredrick Hess, Richard Redding
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009

The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Book cover of The Taste of American Place

The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

by Cary W. de Wit, Stephen Frenkel, Marjorie A. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Book cover of Down Range

Down Range

A Transitioning Veteran's Career Guide to Life's Next Phase

by William M. Duke, James D. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Military veterans prepare for the next mission in their careers Written by veterans who have successfully made the transition, Down Range offers career planning guidance to U.S. military veterans coming off active duty. This is NOT simply a guide to transitioning from the military to the civilian...
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Inventing Place

Writing Lone Star Rhetorics

by James J. Brown, Megan Gianfagna, Amy Young
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...
Book cover of The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity
by Wallace D. Wattles, Napoleon Hill, James Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019

In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects...
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