J G Bruce: 15 books
by J.G. Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Like many empires before, the United States and its power on the world stage began to crumble from within. No army known to man would challenge this great nation. It would only fall for a few, those in power those with an agenda. The population kept in the dark by an assortment of distractions. The...
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...
Rules and Unruliness
Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and...
Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises
Shifting Budgetary Domains and Temporal Budgeting
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions that have characterized contemporary federal politics across four decades. The authors provide...
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies
Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory? In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in...
Creating the Third Force
Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal...
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, Volume 5
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
What's it like to live in a world where humor is banned or to work on a deep-space lighthouse?
If you're lucky, you might even discover how to escape the Yawning Men!
Curl up in your favorite rocket ship and set your coordinates for adventure in Volume Five of the Young Explorer's Adventure...
Sing Them Over Again to Me
Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.
This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. It explores the underappreciated influence of hymns in shaping many spheres of personal and corporate life as well as the value...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
2018 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Girls, Boys, Robots - Everyone is Welcome here!
This stellar collection will appeal to both teens and grown-ups who dream of future worlds. ~Kirkus Starred Review
What’s it like to be a space station detective? To be homesick for Mars? What do you say when your robot
gets you in...
by Roland Boer, Alan H. Cadwallader, James G. Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent...
by Bruce Abernethy, Vaughan Kippers, Stephanie J. Hanrahan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, Third Edition, introduces readers to key concepts concerning the anatomical, mechanical, physiological, neural, and psychological bases of human movement. The text provides undergraduate students with a broad foundation for more detailed study of the subdisciplines...
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