David E : 1072 books
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change
Creativity, Diversity, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, Integration takes prevailing discourse about change in music studies to new vistas, as higher education institutions are at a critical moment of determining just what professional musicians and teachers need to survive and thrive...
Youth Substance Abuse: A Reference Handbook
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse—an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.
• Presents individual perspectives on youth substance abuse issues that provide readers with a very personal outlook...
The Gospel according to Heretics
Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even...
Improving the U.S. Military’s Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups
Insights from Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency,...
Hard Fighting
Israel in Lebanon and Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Like Israel in 2006, the United States today is likely ill prepared for hybrid warfare. To identify lessons that the U.S. military might learn from the Israeli experience in Lebanon, the author examines the state of the Israeli military before the Second Lebanon War, the lessons it learned during that...
The 2008 Battle of Sadr City
Reimagining Urban Combat
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In 2008, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated an uprising in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad with ~2.4 million residents. Coalition forces’ success in this battle helped consolidate the Government of Iraq’s authority, contributing significantly to the attainment of contemporary U.S. operational objectives...
Violence and Naming
On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array...
The Millennial Generation and National Defense
Attitudes of Future Military and Civilian Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This study captures the attitudes and values of the youth generation of college students in the USA toward the military, war, national defence, and foreign policy matters. Providing a unique insight into civilian and military Millenials, the authors explore the impact of 9/11 and the level of tolerance within the military.
Ancient African Christianity
An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context....
Dismembered
Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments that are banishing, denying, or disenrolling...
Genocide, Collective Violence, and Popular Memory
The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The twentieth century has been scarred by political violence and genocide, reaching its extreme in the Holocaust. Yet, at the same time, the century has been marked by a growing commitment to human rights. This volume highlights the importance of history-of socially processed memory-in resolving the...
The Puritan Way of Death
A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1977
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès,...
by David E. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides extensive background on the diagnosis, treatment, consequences, and public understanding of STDs. It also makes available to readers a host of tools and resources with which they can expand that understanding by carrying out additional research...
Vaccination Controversies: A Reference Handbook
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Why is there such an active and ongoing resistance to mandatory vaccination? This book examines why vaccination as a public health measure continues to be highly controversial.