C P Taylor: 13 books

Book cover of 'Good' & 'A Nightingale Sang'
by C. P. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

Good is a story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in the upper reaches of the Nazi administration. It is a profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rationalisation of evil. John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good...
Book cover of Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces

Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces

Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium

by D. Dowson, M. Priest, C. M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

This collection of fully peer-reviewed papers were presented at the 26th Leeds-Lyon Tribology Symposium which was held in Leeds, UK, 14-17 September, 1999. The Leeds-Lyon Symposia on Tribology were launched in 1974, and the large number of references to original work published in the Proceedings over...
Book cover of Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Melissa Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Book cover of Aikido, Vol. 2: O-Sensei's Sublime Synthesis
by G. Paz-y-Miño, A. Espinosa, C. J. Dykhuizen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

     The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with...
Book cover of Water in Kentucky

Water in Kentucky

Natural History, Communities, and Conservation

by Tricia Coakley, Jeffrey W. Stringer, Emma Whitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017

Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Book cover of Wings of Change

Wings of Change

Stories about Dragons

by Lyn Worthen, Angela Penrose, Anj Dockrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble. Wings of Change gathers tales of young dragons growing into their scales and claws,...
Book cover of The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics
by Olek C Zienkiewicz, Robert L Taylor, P. Nithiarasu
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics offers a complete introduction the application of the finite element method to fluid mechanics. The book begins with a useful summary of all relevant partial differential equations before moving on to discuss convection stabilization procedures, steady...
Book cover of Waves of Protest

Waves of Protest

Social Movements Since the Sixties

by David G. Bromley, Diana Gay Cutchin, Luther P. Gerlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Book cover of The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights
by Jami K. Taylor, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Daniel C. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018

While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the...
Book cover of Action Research for Teacher Candidates

Action Research for Teacher Candidates

Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction

by Robert P. Pelton, Elizabeth Baker, Johnna Bolyard
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...
Book cover of Principles of Optics

Principles of Optics

Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

by Max Born, Emil Wolf, A. B. Bhatia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999

Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and expanded edition of this standard text. Among the new material, much of which...
Book cover of Southern Journeys

Southern Journeys

Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

by Brooks Blevins, Richard D. Starnes, Harvey H. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics. Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Book cover of Heart of Creation

Heart of Creation

The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele

by Andrea Stone, Marc Zender, Barbara MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015

This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
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