Alexander Williams: 34 books
by John Alexander Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1984
John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state.
In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events—the battle of Point Pleasant, John...
Appalachia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions...
Dismantling the Big Bang
God's Universe Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Why did Ptolemy's theory cause problems for the church?
What is the big secret concerning the "?Age" of the earth?
Why do many scientists reject the use of design in explaining origins?
The seemingly absurd idea that all matter, energy, space, and time once exploded from a point of extreme...
by Alexander Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Argument structure - the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its dependents - is at the base of syntactic theory and the theory of the interface with semantics. This comprehensive guide explores the motives for thematic and event-structural decomposition, and its relation to structure...
Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Surgical Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A gem among surgical manuals, this comprehensive guide to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis is an excellent source for all surgeons looking specifically for technical details about the surgical management of these two diseases. Its authors - both involved in multi-center international trials,...
by Gregory J. Alexander, Paul K. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Baltimore Orioles, infamous bootleggers, novelists of the Jazz Age and famous musicians have all wandered and lived among the stately Victorian homes and vibrant "painted ladies" of Charles Village. From its beginning as a series of country villas for the wealthy elite of Baltimore to escape the crush...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
by Aikatarini Maria Schlösser, Peter Hoeft, Jutta Ehmke
Language: German
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Die Autorinnen und Herausgeberinnen Silke Alagöz und Jutta Ehmke haben zwanzig spannende, lustige und nachdenkliche Geschichten zusammengetragen, die die Astronautengötter einmal nicht aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht zeigen, sondern als coole Fantasy-Gestalten. In den Legenden der Urvölker werden...
Rice to Ruin
The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation....
Buddhist Thought
A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Buddhist Thought guides the reader towards a richer understanding of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought, from the time of Buddha, to the latest scholarly perspectives and controversies. Abstract and complex ideas are made understandable by the authors' lucid style. Of particular...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
by Amanda Barnard, Alexander Ya. Vul, Anke Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The exceptional mechanical, optical, surface and biocompatibility properties of nanodiamond have gained it much interest. Exhibiting the outstanding bulk properties of diamond at the nanoscale in the form of a film or small particle makes it an inexpensive alternative for many applications.
Nanodiamond...