James Scott: 218 books
Women at War
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Today, women in all U.S. military services are involved in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. They serve as pilots and crewmen of assault helicopters, bombers, fighters, and transport planes, and are frequently engaged in firefights with enemy insurgents while guarding convoys, traveling in hostile territory,...
by Coffin Hop Press, Steve Brewer, Sarah L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Get ready to unwrap your gifts early this year! Stuff your festive stockings with this collection of the weirdest, wildest holiday fiction this side of Charlie’s Dickens. Get your bells jingling and jangling with these tales of mistletoe madness, festive fury, and holiday havoc from some of the...
Totalitarianism on Screen
The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...
Galactic Dynamics
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Since it was first published in 1987, Galactic Dynamics has become the most widely used advanced textbook on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now, in this extensively revised and updated edition, James Binney and Scott Tremaine describe the...
IR
International, Economic, and Human Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Now publishing with CQ Press, the Third Edition of IR: International, Economic, and Human Security in a Changing World explores the most current issues affecting the global community by analyzing how global actors seek international, economic, and human security. Award-winning scholars and authors...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
America’s Space Futures
Defining Goals for Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
America’s Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America’s future in space and how different visions would require changes to America’s...
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #4: March 2019
Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson
Discovering Leadership
Designing Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success by Anthony Middlebrooks, Scott J. Allen, Mindy McNutt, and James Morrison provides a practical, engaging foundation and easy-to-understand framework for individuals to purposefully design leadership. This action-oriented text starts with the self and...
Sites Unseen
Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and largely invisible past: they were once sites of industrial manufacturers, such as plastics factories or machine shops, that likely left behind...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...
by Christine Rees, Kacie Ji, Roxas James
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Pucker up for KISSED!
Kisses can be innocent, playful, or just to comfort. Some are for luck and others have the promise of sweeter ones to come.
That's why we've dedicated an anthology to the kiss. These eight hand-picked stories are brimming with romance, and they all begin and end...
by Scott James
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
“There’s a wickedness in some people, an evil that can’t be cured. And there’s no amount of redemption or forgiveness that can bring them back.”Three twenty something cops are at the beginning of their careers in two small Oregon towns. They are learning to balance the demands of...