James Hall: 88 books
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...
by Dr Anthony Hall, James O. Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development' -Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World...
by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, John Rev. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical...
by : James Heitzman, Gerhard Jaritz, Heinz Grotzfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe,...
Philosophy of Childhood Today
Exploring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal...
Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern
A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize...
by James Norman Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
"It seemed necessary that some record of the accomplishment of the Lafayette Corps be set down, not only for the pleasure of the men who were a part of it, but the others in later days might not forget these volunteers who were among the first Americans to go to the aid of France at a time of great...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...
Recovering the Personal
The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Recovering the Personal will be of interest to a broad range of intellectual readers with interests in philosophy, psychology, theology, and the humanities.
From Atheist to Ambassador
The First Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Weve heard it said many times, When life hands you a bunch of lemons, just make lemonade. My question would be, What if you dont have any sugar?
On the outside he looked like just another little scrawny kid in the neighborhood who couldnt run as fast or keep up with the rest of the boys in...
The Globalization of Executive Search
Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book, the authors examine the key actors in the process of executive search globalization – leading global firms...
by James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw.
by James P. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Great management is difficult. It requires patience, empathy, courage, flexibility, and an understanding of how everybodys efforts contribute to the greater goal. You may possess some of these qualities, but few of us excel at all of them -- at least not right out of the gate. Managing on Purpose is...
by Bernard Saugier, James R. Ehleringer, Anthony E. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This 33-chapter volume presents a critical examination of the importance of stable isotopes in understanding key plant metabolic processes.
Carbon isotope analyses for estimates of plant water use and metabolism
Integrated estimates of stress impacts and life history in ecological systems
Hydrogen...