David J : 1790 books
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
Free Speech On Trial
Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.
At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...
Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Making a Case for the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China
The Flowering of Early Animal Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of exquisitely preserved fossils that record the early diversification...
Sortez de vos automatismes et soyez enfin vous-mêmes (en mieux !)
100 clés pour vous débarrasser de ces habitudes qui vous gâchent la vie
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
CHANGEZ ENFIN LES HABITUDES QUI VOUS GÂCHENT LA VIE !
- Pourquoi les compliments me mettent-ils mal à l'aise ?
- Pourquoi est-ce que je repousse sans cesse des tâches qui ne me prendraient que quelques minutes ?
- Pourquoi ai-je du mal à demander de l'aide aux autres ?
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by Edwin J.. Wylie, Ronald J. Stoney, Wiliam K. Ehrenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Of all the developing fields of surgery, few have had the impact of vascular surgery in affecting so large a section of the population by offering the potential relief of disability and the prolongation of life. As would be anticipated, the interest of surgeons in this evolving specialty has largely...
Nerds on Wall Street
Math, Machines and Wired Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
An intriguing look at how technology is changing financial markets, from an innovator on the frontlines of this revolution
Nerds on Wall Street tells the tale of the ongoing technological transformation of the world's financial markets. The impact of technology on investing is profound, and...
You Can Read Anyone
Never Be Fooled, Lied to, or Taken Advantage of Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
This book contains specific, practical, and proven, psychological techniques that you can use to know a person’s thoughts and feelings at anytime--often within minutes. Because the techniques can be applied instantly to any person in just about any situation, Dr. Lieberman has demonstrated their ease...
by David J. Cichelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Leverage the full power of your sales force with a cutting-edge compensation program
Salespeople are motivated by many things—and how they’re paid tops the list. Sales compensation is one of the best tools for motivating any sales force and thus maximizing business revenue. Do you have...
Japan: A Documentary History
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual...
by David J. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.
Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King’s evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama,...
Site Reading
Fiction, Art, Social Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional...
Hollywood Gothic
The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day...