James George: 287 books
What is an Emotion?
The Physiology of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What is an Emotion?
Our natural way of thinking about the standard emotions is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression. The thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow...
Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
Navigating the Energy Maze
The Transition to a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book presents essential information for the development of a comprehensive sustainable energy policy. It examines the diverse types of energy, their resource abundance and the material needs to develop and use them, and how communities and cities can better control their own destinies by locally...
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
by George James
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book answers 60 of the most common questions people want to know about medicare including:
- what is the difference between medicare and medicaid - what does medicare cover - are there service medicare does not cover - who is eligible for medicare - how does the fee for service system...
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The realities of the world are few and small; the illusions many and vast. Not a sense that we possess, and hardly a faculty of the mind, but serves to deceive us; wholly in some cases, and partially in all. Yet, strip nature and life of these deceits, and what would earth become?--what our existence...
by George Lucas, James Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Luke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he had bargained for—and that was how the adventure of his life began. . . .
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
The Indians of the Painted Desert Region
Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The Indians of the Painted Desert Region
Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. The Painted Desert Region
II. Desert Recollections
III. First Glimpses of the Hopi
IV. The Hopi Villages and...
The Future of Prejudice
Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It is difficult to discover what are the exact sources from which spring the thrilling feelings of joy and satisfaction with which we look back to the days of our early youth, and to the scenes in which our infancy was passed. It matters not, or at least very little, what are the pleasures to which we...
Tenja of the Red Paint People
An Adventure of a Young Girl Living in Northeast Canada 8,000 Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Tenja of the Red Paint People tells the story of a teenage girl living long ago in what is now northeastern Canada. Tall, strong, and lanky, Tenja loves to run and has exceptional speed and stamina for her age. She also has an unusual thirst for knowledge, learning a great deal particularly from the...
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Most cities are hateful; and, without any disposition to "babble about green fields," it must be owned that each is more or less detestable. Nevertheless, among them all, there is none to be compared, as a whole, to London--none which comprehends within itself, from various causes, so much of the sublime...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...