Nicholas: 2917 books
Leadership Explained
Leading Teams in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Unfortunately, leadership does not have a one-size-fits-all definition. We all have our own ideas as to what makes a good leader and the types of challenges that will be faced. The author bridges a gap by presenting how modern leadership happens while simultaneously combining a description of leadership...
Truly Human Enhancement
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and...
How States Shaped Postwar America
State Government and Urban Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas:...
by Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The exiled Russian sociologist and legal scholar Nicholas S. Timasheff's place in the forefront of the sociology of law was established with the publication, in 1939, of An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. His magnum opus articulates a systematic legal sociology. The book's title is misleading,...
The State Strikes Back
The End of Economic Reform in China?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
China’s extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, the renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy...
The Cash Ceiling
Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about it
Why are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this...
by Nicholas Jankovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
A short story from shifting perspectives. A quiet neurotic traveller finds the world creeping into his life in many ways. Uniquely, the perspective this book is written from shifts between characters without mention making for an unusual read.
What Makes a Star Teacher
7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
How do some teachers manage to expertly engage students in deep learning, harmonize mandated standards with individual student needs, and create trusting relationships in the classroom? What typically sets these "star teachers" apart from other teachers?
In What Makes a Star Teacher:...
Stopping the Bomb
The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s...
A Geography of Digestion
Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical...
Social Research Methods
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students' pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. In this book, he:
· Takes students step-by-step through the research process
·...
Trusting Enemies
Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
How can two states with enemy relations transform their relationship? Nicholas Wheeler argues that the discipline of International Relations has not done a good job of answering this question because its focus has been on the state and the individual levels of analysis. In this ground-breaking book,...
by Nicholas Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Case studies of media manipulation and corruption involving politicians and businessmen in Australia
by Nicholas Culpeper
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
All other Authors that have written of the nature of Herbs, give not a bit of reason why such an Herb was appropriated to such a part of the body, nor why it cured such a disease. Truly my own body being sickly, brought me easily into a capacity, to know that health was the greatest of all earthly...