A Taylor: 184 books
Military Service and American Democracy
From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
“When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America’s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of...
Imagining Archives
Essays and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Hugh A. Taylor is one of the most important thinkers in the English-speaking world of archives. A retired civil servant and archival educator, he was named to the prestigious Order of Canada, his nation's highest civilian award. The fifteen essays in this volume are presented in chronological order...
The Balance Myth
Rethinking Work-Life Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Tired of trying to attain the mythical work-life balance and constantly feeling frustrated? Are you giving yourself a C– for your performances at work and at home? Teresa A. Taylor knows that trying to be a career woman and a mom can leave you feeling tired and defeated, and she wants you to take...
by William J Hutchison, Jan Wilson, John J Stretch
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Raising Our Children Out of Poverty shows what can be done at the national and local community levels to raise children out of poverty by strengthening families, communities, and social services.
br>Based on the April 1998 symposium “Raising Our Children Out of Poverty” at the Saint Louis University...
by A. Taylor Innes
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Alexander Taylor Innes, was a lawyer, writer, biographer and church historian. He was born on 18 December 1833 at Tain, Ross and Cromarty. His father was Alexander Innes, an accountant and bank agent, and his mother, Martha Taylor.
by Homer A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In the summer of 1977, drug smuggling was rampant in the southern Arizona desert. Using horses, smugglers made a massive profit, as these horse trains were much more difficult to detectuntil the United States Customs Patrol decided to beat these smugglers at their own game. Horses seized from the...
Universes without Us
Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
The American Health Care Paradox
Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine
For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including...
Ginseng, the Divine Root
The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2006
The story behind ginseng is as remarkable as the root itself. Prized for its legendary curative powers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; and sparked a boom in Minnesota comparable to the California Gold Rush. It has made...
The Stable Boy
The First Witness Tells His Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In writing a nativity story from the point of view of a boy who lives in the stable, Shirley Taylor has given us a vivid account of Christ’s birth and a motivating experience to readers and hearers, alike. Likely to become an ‘instant classic’ of Christian literature, this simple story will...
Interpreting Apocalyptic Literature
An Exegetical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An appreciation for the rich diversity of literary genres in Scripture is one of the positive features of evangelical scholarship in recent decades.—-David M. Howard Jr., series editor
At one time, Old Testament apocalyptic literature was relegated to the more obscure reaches of biblical...
by J. A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Far From Home by J. A. Taylor.
Jumping Fire
A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung...
Hippocrates Cried
The Decline of American Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Hippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an experienced psychiatrist and researcher. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer receiving the care they need, Dr. Taylor suggest that modern psychiatrists in the U.S. rely too heavily on...