David L : 1236 books
by Brian Folker, Maia A. Gemmill, Patricia M. Goff
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demonstrate how this well-loved artifact of popular culture reflects and shapes our own lifeworld. A wide...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
Wolves on the Hunt
The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than...
by Ann Ferguson, Milton Fisk, John L. Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Taking Socialism Seriously raises essential questions about what socialism is and how socialists can reach it by addressing a long list of potential quandaries. The contributions compiled by Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt describe how socialism differs from a reformed and more humane form of capitalism....
by Sumio Ishikawa, Sibel Mrs. Yelten, Damien Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Cambodia's reconstruction and reform efforts have spanned almost 25 years following the Khmer Rouge period, which ended in 1979. Economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, but reform efforts were beset by ongoing internal tensions and civil unrest. Although external factors, including sizable...
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...
by Harold L. Hallock, Gary Welter, David G. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book de-emphasizes the formal mathematical description of spacecraft on-board attitude and orbit applications in favor of a more qualitative, concept-oriented presentation of these topics. The information presented in this book was originally given as a set of lectures in 1999 and 2000 instigated...
A Primer on Complex Systems
With Applications to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...
The New Politics of the Old South
An Introduction to Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The New Politics of the Old South, Sixth Edition is available August 2017. Paperback ISBN 9781538100158
Now in its fifth edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern...
by Terry L. Friesz, David Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is a book about infrastructure networks that are intrinsically nonlinear. The networks considered range from vehicular networks to electric power networks to data networks.
The main point of view taken is that of mathematical programming in concert with finite-dimensional variational inequality...
by Ronni L. Gordon, David M. Stillman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Add weight to your Spanish verb choices without breaking your back(pack)!
In one compact package, The Concise Red Pocket Book of Spanish Verbs provides 333 of the most important verbs in Spanish in full conjugated form. Each verb is illustrated by example sentences, showing the verb in action....
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Integrated Marketing Communication
Creating Spaces for Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is a holistic approach to the areas of advertising, public relations, branding, promotions, event and experiential marketing, and related fields of strategic communication. Integrated Marketing Communication: Creating Spaces for Engagement explores how IMC...