James Fleming: 20 books
Fixing the Sky
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker...
by James Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel’s title, which translates...
Cold Blood
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is breaking out all around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. Even if he dies in the attempt, he's going to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who murdered Doig's beautiful wife, Elizaveta. Certain that Glebov will sooner or later turn up at Lenin's...
by James Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution
The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy...
by James Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Evil is a survivor.
The military and the Central Intelligence Agency signed a secret agreement for joint military/ CIA special operations. It was a historical shift of power that militarized spy operations. The agreement was the key to getting Osama bin Laden.
Retired Deputy Director...
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too:
Getting the Most out of Your Flexible Spending Account (Fsa)
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Since the great recession began in 2007, the average American has been struggling. Costs for food, gas, insurance has risen to astronomical levels. While these costs have continued to rise, salaries have remained stagnant. The result is that paychecks continue to get squeezed, and the American dream...
Broken Border
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Kim Jon Il holds an iron grip over North Korea, and the world can only wonder what the secretive leader is doing within his borders.
The deputy director of the CIA, Bob Wells, intends to discover the truth. He knows that if he doesnt, the world could see an attack similar to 9/11, or even worse....
Inventing Atmospheric Science
Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the intertwined careers of three key figures.
“The goal of meteorology is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always,” declared John Bellamy and Harry...
Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution
For Moral Readings and Against Originalisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
In recent years, some have asked "Are we all originalists now?" and many have assumed that originalists have a monopoly on concern for fidelity in constitutional interpretation. In Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution, James Fleming rejects originalisms-whether old or new, concrete or abstract,...
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
John Wilkins and the Universal Character
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of...
Constitutional Interpretation
The Basic Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Ronald Dworkin famously argued that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as written calls for a fusion of constitutional law and moral philosophy. Barber and Fleming take up that call, arguing for a philosophic approach to constitutional interpretation. In doing so, they systematically critique...
by Aimee Easterling, Anthea Sharp, D.N. Erikson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Fantasy Bridge is thrilled to present this Urban Fantasy Anthology from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories transport you to versions of Earth like you've never seen before. Places where dragons roam the streets and where magic is as common as cell phones. The exciting stories...
Ordered Liberty
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.
Milton's Secrecy
And Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic...
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