J Martin: 509 books
Do We Need HR?
Repositioning People Management for Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Written by a leading team of authors with contributions from top HR professionals, Do We Need HR? is an important book which addresses issues surrounding the role, structure and challenges for HR departments and how the field may be affected by new types of organizations, networks and methods of working.
Minor League Baseball
Community Building Through Hometown Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Examine the big-league benefits of minor league baseball!
The Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Written from the unique perspective of a sociologist who...
Operation Demetrius and its aftermath
A new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book examines the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland between 1971 and 1975. This research provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. The book considers the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction...
by P A J Waddington, Martin Wright, Kate Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
When people witness occasions when police use their powers to investigate crime and arrest offenders, how do those members of the public assess what they have seen? This book reports research in which a variety of groups from the West Midlands watched short video-clips of such real-life incidents...
by J. P. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Lasting friendships are sometimes formed in unusual ways. The following story shows how this can happen. Buses and trains take us places, but they sometimes bring us together. And once we are together . . . Well, youll see. Ordinary people do brave things during the most trying times. And acts of kindness, even during the most distressing of situations, are well remembered.
Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime
Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The main goal of the book is to provide a systematic and didactic approach to the physics and technology of free-electron lasers. Numerous figures are used for illustrating the underlying ideas and concepts and links to other fields of physics are provided. After an introduction to undulator radiation...
Transformative Imagery
Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and improving performance. This definitive collection brings together leading pioneers in the field of guided imagery to share its theory, practice and history.
Readers are introduced to the extensive uses...
by Martin J Brayley
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945 uses over 400 illustrations - both period images and new colour photographs of original items - to show the clothing of both Officers and Ratings in World War II and during the years leading up to it, when Naval uniforms underwent significant modernization. The illustrations...
by Kihachiro Kikuzawa, Martin J. Lechowicz
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. Variation in leaf longevity is associated with a wide array of differences in the physiology, anatomy, morphology and ecology...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
Incarnation
The Harmony of One Love in the Totality of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Western dualism is an illusion. Reality is a dialectical unity of incarnate love through the condition of the possibilities of divine and human, spirit and matter, Self and Other.
The historical development to this metaphysical view is investigated in depth. Incarnation is a “legitimate pantheism.”...
Irreconcilable Differences?
Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different...
African Empires: Volume 1
Your Guide to the Historical Record of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
African Empires presents a comprehensive and in depth analysis of the major empires of the African continent over thousands of years. This book penetrates into the various kingdoms and and rich cultures of Africa including East Africa, West Africa, North Africa, South Africa and Central Africa. African...
by Martin J. Blickstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Carefully reasoned and sourced, the author reviews the historical origins of the conflicts in the Middle East. His review of the religious foundation of this war leads him to conclude that "it is imperative to recognize that there are people who are more anxious to die for religious theology...