Jeffrey R : 193 books
Magical Muse
Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.
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Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal...
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?
The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
by Jeffrey C. Beane, Alvin L. Braswell, Joseph C. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Revised and updated to reflect the most current science, and including 30 new species, this authoritative and comprehensive volume is the definitive guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. The new edition features 189 species of salamanders, frogs, crocodilians, turtles,...
The Handwriting of God
Sacred Mysteries of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The Handwriting of God will answer your questions about the phenomenal Bible Codes while revealing awesome New Code Discoveries hidden in the Scriptures. Can we trust the Bible? Is Christianity credible? There is a war on for the souls and minds of humanity and the main battleground is the issue of...
The Same Sex Controversy
Defending and Clarifying the Bible's Message About Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
In the guise of tolerance, Hollywood and modern culture have granted "alternative lifestyle" status to a behavior condemned by Scripture. In the Same Sex Controversy, the authors clarify and defend the Bible's stand on homosexuality as they expand on key passages. Subjects include the basis...
by Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Cost and Value Management in Projects provides practicing managers with a thorough understanding of the various dimensions of cost and value in projects, along with the factors that impact them, and the managerial approaches that would be most effective for achieving cost efficiency and value optimization....
by Jeffrey Borkan, Richard E. Hawkins, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Developed by the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, Health Systems Science is the first text that focuses on providing a fundamental understanding of how health care is delivered, how health care professionals work together to deliver that care, and...
Mergers & Acquisitions
A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend...
Ethics and Politics in School Leadership
Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The authors are national school resource experts and have teamed up to write a comprehensive book on ethics and politics. It covers everything you need to know about ethical leadership and dealing with politics in schools. The book starts with an ethical framework and moves on to politics with unions,...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
by Wendy L. Martinez, Angel R. Martinez, Jeffrey Solka
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Praise for the Second Edition:
"The authors present an intuitive and easy-to-read book. … accompanied by many examples, proposed exercises, good references, and comprehensive appendices that initiate the reader unfamiliar with MATLAB."
—Adolfo Alvarez Pinto, International Statistical...
REWAS 2016
Towards Materials Resource Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Proceedings from a 2016 sustainability symposium
Information from REWAS 2016 proceedings were collected and published in REWAS 2016: Towards Materials Resource Sustainability. This collection covers the proceedings of the symposium sponsored by the Recycling and Environmental Technologies Committee;...