Jeffrey: 3395 books
The Patrician Tribune
Publius Clodius Pulcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to...
Dream Interpretation
A Psychic's A to Z Guide to Uncovering the Truth Behind Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Ever wonder what that dream last night meant?
Since ancient times people have understood that dreams have significance and have tried to figure out what they mean. In this user-friendly guide to dream interpretation, acclaimed psychic medium Jeffrey Wands offers insight into the truth behind...
Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...
Cooperation under Fire
Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine...
Surviving Genocide
Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned...
by Jeffrey Gowing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Following my return home to San Antonio in April of 2014 after an extended trip to Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican state of Jalisco where my companion and I had rented a car to explore the coastline northwards to San Blas, I had formed a firm resolve that my next vacation to Mexico would be to a destination...
The Medicine of Peace
Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence. Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent...
The Lobbyists
How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum's The Lobbyists exposes the world of Washington's most influential players -- the more than eighty thousand who descend upon our national government, informing and bartering with Congress and blocking legislation on behalf of the richest business interests in the country. This...
by George S. Everly Jr., Jeffrey M. Lating
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. PFA is designed to be applied in emergencies, including disasters and terrorist attacks. In this essential guide, George S. Everly, Jr., developer...
Negotiating National Identity
Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser...
A Politician Turned General
The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War
A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
The Genuine Teachers of This Art
Rhetorical Education in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric. From this innovative perspective, Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations...
Democracy against Development
Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy...
by Jeffrey Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Bringing interpersonal neurobiology and narrative therapy together.
Narrative therapy understands storytelling as the way we make sense of ourselves and life experience. Many non-narrative therapists have expressed great admiration and interests in the politics the work exposes, the way it...