J John: 1441 books
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Theories in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
by John Higham, Carl J. Guarneri
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book presents three decades of writings by one of America’s most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing...
by John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The task of interpreting the Bible — which was written by and to people living in very different cultural contexts from contemporary Western society — can seem monumental. The opposite is also true: people can easily forget that studying the Bible is a type of cross-cultural encounter, instead...
by Brian R. Calfano, Michele Dillon, Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware...
by Dr John J Schwarzmantel
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2008
'Successfully challenges the notion that we live in a post-ideological age. John Schwarzmantel searchingly questions the thesis that only single issues and identities matter, providing a reliable compass to help students navigate through a world that has witnessed the death of Communism and the rise...
The Adult Hip
Hip Arthroplasty Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This two volume set contains comprehensive coverage of management of disorders of the adult hip. It includes all arthroscopic and open procedures as well as extensive coverage of equipment and prostheses.
Private Anti-Piracy Navies
How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in privatization of the military, especially of logistics and security functions during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outbreak of Somali piracy that started in 2008 has prompted a similar revolution in maritime security. Private security...
Great Delusion
Liberal Dreams and International Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail
In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States...
George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice
The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of the Catholic Church's involvement in social issues from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century through the lens of the life, career, writings,...
Left Behind
Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In Left Behind, a team of education scholars led by Edward P. St. John argues that American cities have been engaged for the past three decades in a radical—but failing—effort to transform general and vocational high schools into college preparatory institutions. By examining the educational reforms...
Healing through Trigger Point Therapy
A Guide to Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This book is about empowerment for chronic pain patients and care providers
alike. Every chronic pain condition has a treatable myofascial trigger point component, including fibromyalgia. Many of the localized symptoms now considered as fibromyalgia are actually due to trigger points. The central...
by Dr John Edwards, J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
This social and religious history of European Jews in the early modern period is unique in placing Jewish experience in the context of Christian society. Beginning with late medieval Jewry and the expulsion from Spain in 1492 of Jews who refused to convert to Christianity, John Edwards goes on to...
Child Well-Being
Understanding Children's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally. However, a lack of clarity remains about what the idea really means and how it can help children.
This...