University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Listening Deeply
An Approach to Understanding and Consulting in Organizational Culture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Listening deeply is the foundation of all effective organizational management, research, and consulting. This book explores the many aspects of attentive listening through storytelling and includes examples of organizational case studies. In Stein’s practice, listening deeply is an attitude evoked...
Bread
A Memoir of Hunger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When she was 54, Lisa Knopp’s weight dropped to a number on the scale that she hadn’t seen since seventh grade. The severe food restricting that left her thin and sick when she was 15 and 25 had returned. This time, she was determined to understand the causes of her malady and how she could heal...
Architecture by Moonlight
Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper...
Meeting Sophie
A Memoir of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair.
This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches...
Mark Twain & France
The Making of a New American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be “American” in the second half of the nineteenth century.
While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s...
Protest and Propaganda
W. E. B. Du Bois, the CRISIS, and American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
In looking back on his editorship of Crisis magazine*,* W. E. B. Du Bois said, “We condensed more news about Negroes and their problems in a month than most colored papers before this had published in a year.” Since its founding by Du Bois in 1910, Crisis has been the primary published voice of...
Shooting Polaris
A Personal Survey in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Shooting Polaris is John Hales’s fascinating and far-reaching account of working as a government surveyor in the southern Utah desert. In it, he describes his search for a place in the natural world, beginning with an afternoon spent tracking down a lost crew member who cracked up on the job and...
What Wars Leave Behind
The Faceless and the Forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
They bear labels instead of names—noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers, media, and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay behind to cope amid the wreckage. They have...
Wilderness Journey
The Life of William Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2004
Strange as it may seem today, William Clark—best known as the American explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis in leading an overland expedition to the Pacific—has many more claims to fame than his legendary Voyage of Discovery, dramatic and daring though that venture may have been. Although studies...
by Chad R. Fulwider
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In the fading evening light of August 4, 1914, Great Britain’s H.M.S. Telconia set off on a mission to sever the five transatlantic cables linking Germany and the United States. Thus Britain launched its first attack of World War I and simultaneously commenced what became the war’s most decisive...
The Myth of Coequal Branches
Restoring the Constitution’s Separation of Functions
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this myth...
by Robert Lance Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This is an analysis of the first 10 post—Cold War novels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction.
This book challenges distinctions between “popular” and “serious” literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary...
The First Cold War
The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S. - Soviet Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
In The First Cold War, Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani review the Wilson administration’s attitudes toward Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure of power. They argue that before the Russian Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding of Russia and made poor appointments...
My War in Italy
On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Six weeks before Pearl Harbor, Keith Mason received a $150 uniform allowance, a pair of silver wings, and his first assignment as a flight instructor: Randolph Field, Texas. Two years later, he was Squadron Officer in the 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in Spinazzola, Italy - flying the harrowing...