David John: 902 books
Beacon Technologies
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Beacosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs.
Proximity...
Research Design
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This bestselling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions; key elements of the research process; a review...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
by John B. Cobb, Jr., Francis J. Beckwith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage. Is the God of ISIS the same as the God of Israel? Do Sunni Muslims and Protestant Christians pray to the same Creator and Sustainer of the universe?
In...
by John Painter, David A. deSilva, Mikeal Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, two respected New Testament scholars offer a practical commentary on James and Jude that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts.
This commentary, like...
by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily...
by Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific...
A Visual Guide to Gospel Events
Fascinating Insights into Where They Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As the inspired authors of the Bible relayed the story of salvation, they frequently mentioned place names that contributed to the story. Yet readers who are separated from the texts by thousands of years and thousands of miles are often unable to fully understand or appreciate those references. In...
Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.
“Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste,...
San Bernardino Mountain Trails
100 Hikes in Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Southern California's highest and most rugged mountains are in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto ranges, in a unique region where desert cactus and pine trees, plus snow-capped peaks and palm oases, are found in close proximity. With the Pacific Crest Trail weaving its way through the mountains and...
Lamar Archaeology
Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in...
by John David Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Jack has an uphill battle as he rejoins the remainder of the civilization that has matured without him.
His father is known and the senior's theories are deemed valid to those he encounters once he enters the progressing world of the survivors.
He must go from the brutal world of the...
by John David Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Everyone knows that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is intelligent - all black holes are. They don't have arms and legs and they are subject to the same universal rules of gravity and energies that everyone is. If you should want to commune with it you have to go to it under it's...
by John Joseph Adams, Ian Whates, Kaaron Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from Ian Whates ("Reaper's Rose") and Rahul...